{"id":6453,"date":"2022-02-09T19:16:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T13:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=6453"},"modified":"2022-02-09T20:16:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T14:46:49","slug":"and-the-voice-lives-on-lata-mangeshkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/and-the-voice-lives-on-lata-mangeshkar\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Voice Lives On…"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Lata<\/a>

Lata Mangeshkar painting by Raghuvir Mulgaokar. Shiva impression refers to their family deity Shiva or Mangesh from Shri Mangesh Temple, Goa (Pic courtesy: Ratnottama Sengupta)<\/p><\/div>\n

1949.<\/p>\n

That night. In the Mahanirban Road house.<\/p>\n

It was probably midnight. All the noise in the neighbourhood had died down save the stray car passing by in the distance. I was preparing to go to bed.<\/p>\n

Kanaklata switched off the light.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s when someone put on a record in some house wrapped in darkness.<\/p>\n

Aayega aayega aayega<\/em><\/p>\n

Aayega aanewala aayega… aayega…<\/em><\/p>\n

I pricked up my ears. It seemed to me some lovelorn virahini <\/em>from another world was singing about her separated beloved.<\/p>\n

When the record stopped playing in that unknown house, Kanaklata spoke, \u201cWhat an amazingly bewitching song go<\/em>!\u201d<\/p>\n

I nodded, I couldn\u2019t speak a word.<\/p>\n

Kanaklata spoke again, \u201cThis is a woman singing but my heart says, this is everyone\u2019s voice… It speaks of the yearning and anticipation in every person\u2019s heart. A woman wants the man of her dreams and a man desires the complete woman he has always imagined and sings with conviction, Aayegi, aayegi, aayegi aanewali.<\/em>..\u201d<\/p>\n

I was wonderstruck by her analysis. \u201cRight!\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a mesmerising song!\u201d Kanaklata responded. \u201cBuy the record tomorrow,\u201d she signed off for the night.<\/p>\n

(Nabendu Ghosh in his autobiography, Eka Naukar Jatri\/ Journey of a Lonesome Boat<\/em>)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aayega aanewala<\/strong> <\/em>(Mahal, 1949) Khemchand Prakash \/ Nakshab Jarchvi \/ Lata Mangeshkar<\/span><\/p>\n