Amitabh Bachchan in an interview said how one of his friends in Pakistan had told him that they have everything in Pakistan that India had except for two things, 1. The Taj Mahal and 2. Lata Mangeshkar.
Though I rate S Janaki as one of India’s finest female playback singers I would always give the crown to Lata. If someone actually told me that the Kishore Kumar’s version of “Rim Jim Gire Saawan” from the Amitabh-Moushmi film “Manzil” was better than Lata’s version I would simply dismiss that person as someone who either didn’t know Lata or even didn’t know music. Such is the beauty of her singing. Every rainy season I listen and watch to this incredible video and I cannot tell you what incredible moods (including depression) it leads me to. Watching it or any of her incredible songs now is really sad.
I can actually never put a finger on a best song of Lata Mangeshkar as there are scores of them. I am sure all Lata Mangeshkar fans feel that way. Though I didn’t like her songs towards the end of her career it was only testimony of her singing prowess that the public just couldn’t let go of her.
She still lives among us in the thousands of her beautiful songs. May her soul rest in peace.
Recent Comments