Tag Archives: Lata Mangehkar songs

Part 1 of this essay explored the talent and work of Hemant Kumar, the singer, in the Hindi film industry. Today, the author explores some of his compositions of merit and...

The Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar met the legendary music director Madan Mohan for the first time during the making of Shaheed. Their association together went on to create some of the most melodious...

One tends to overlook the many achievements of the composer Bappi Lahiri, overshadowed as they have been by his ‘Tathaiyya, tathaiyya’ brand of cacophony, his infamous penchant...

Shakeel Badayuni is considered to be one of the finest romantic poets of the previous century. And Naushad among the monarchs of Hindi film music. When they teamed up, the result was...

Monica Kar pays a personal tribute to 12 music directors who created note-worthy compositions in 1963, the year she was born, and have definitely had a hand in keeping her music-crazy for the...

Legendary music composers Shankar Jaikishan created not only a mammoth repertoire of hit songs in Hindi film music, they also set many a style and precedent in the use of instruments to create sounds and rhythms....

Lata Mangeshkar's melodies have been a constant companion for over two decades for Srinivas Ganti who chronicles his delightful discovery of her music while drawing parallels with events in his life as a special...