Lata Mangeshkar<\/a> passed away due to a multi-organ failure in Mumbai on Sunday morning. Mangeshkar, who was known as the \u2018Queen of Melody\u2019 and the \u2018Nightingale of India\u2019, breathed her last at 8:12 am in Mumbai\u2019s Breach Candy Hospital. She had tested positive for Covid-19 with mild symptoms on January 8 and was undergoing treatment at the hospital. She was 92.<\/p>\n Mangeshkar was admitted to the ICU of Breach Candy hospital, where she was being treated by Dr. Pratit Samdani and his team of doctors. The legendary singer was showing improvement until last week but her health deteriorated and she was put back on ventilator support on Saturday morning. The singer was also being treated for pneumonia. She recovered from COVID-19 and pneumonia on January 30.<\/p>\n On Saturday, several high-profile personalities visited the hospital including Union Minister Piyush Goyal, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray, filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar, and NCP leader Supriya Sule to check on the singer.<\/p>\n In November 2019, Mangeshkar was admitted to the same hospital after she complained of difficulty in breathing and was diagnosed with pneumonia. She was discharged after 28 days.<\/p>\n Lata Mangeshkar\u2019s mortal remains will be brought home from Mumbai\u2019s Breach Candy hospital between 11 am to 2:30 pm, where several high-profile personalities will pay their last respects to the departed soul.<\/p>\n Born in Indore, Mangeshkar stayed the voice of screen idols for generations. She started her career at the age of 13 in 1942 and had sung over 30,000 songs in several Indian languages in an eight-decade-long career.<\/p>\n Lata Mangeshkar won almost every laurel conceivable, including the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honor.\u00a0 In nearly every Hindi movie, you would almost be expected to know that Lata Mangeshkar composed its music.<\/p>\n \u2018Ram Ram Pavhna\u2019 was her first film as a composer in 1960, and she preferred the relative anonymity of a male pseudonym. And so, it was Anand Ghan that gave music to Saadhi Maansa and won the state\u2019s best music and best song awards for that year, not Lata Mangeshkar (Anand Ghan\u2019s identity later became a popular question in school quizzes).<\/p>\n Her first breakthrough song, Dil Mera Toda, was for the film Majboor in 1948. In the following year, 1949, Lata Mangeshkar garnered massive popularity with the track Aayega Aanewaala from Madhubala-starrer Mahal. After this, there was no looking back for Mangeshkar, who went on to become the most iconic singer in Indian cinematic and music history.<\/p>\n Some of her most loved tracks were \u2018Ajeeb Dastan Hai Ye,\u2019 \u2018Jab Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya,\u2019 \u2018Bheegi Bheegi Raaton Mein,\u2019 \u2018Tere Bina Zindagi Se Koi Shikwa To Nahin,\u2019 \u2018Lag Jaa Gale,\u2019 \u2018Ek Pyar Ka Nagma Hai,\u2019 \u2018Tune O Rangeele,\u2019 \u2018Aye Mere Wattan Ke Logo,\u2019 \u2018Maye Ni Maye,\u2019 \u2018Mere Khwabon Mein Jo Aaye,\u2019 \u2018Tere Liye,\u2019 and \u2018Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham\u2019.<\/p>\n The Maharashtra state film awards for Saadhi Maansa are just two of the hundreds Mangeshkar won over a career traversing seven decades and more, in which she sang close to 30,000 songs.<\/p>\n Her last full album was for the late filmmaker Yash Chopra-directed 2004 film \u2018Veer Zaara\u2019. Mangeshkar\u2019s last song was \u2018Saugandh Mujhe Is Mitti Ki,\u2019 which was released on March 30, 2021, as a tribute to the Indian Army. She was awarded the Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honor in 2001.<\/p>\n Lata Mangeshkar was also the recipient of several awards including Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan, Dada Saheb Phalke Award, and multiple National Film Awards.<\/p>\n In 1965, when Marathi film legend and later Dadasaheb Phalke award recipient Bhalji Pendharkar wanted to make a movie on the urban-rural conflict amid the rapid transformation of a stormy decade, he turned to Lata Mangeshkar to compose its music. The assignment not only required musical genius but also a keen understanding of the scores of Marathi dialects spoken across Maharashtra.<\/p>\n By then, Mangeshkar \u2013 already a \u2018playback\u2019 singing sensation across Indian languages \u2013 had composed music for three Marathi films. It was Pendharkar\u2019s film Saadhi Maansa (Simple Folk) \u2013 her fourth \u2013 that would become a landmark. Two of its songs \u2013 \u2018Airanichya deva tula\u2019 and \u2018Malachya malamandhi\u2019 \u2013 became all-time classics in Maharashtrian households and won innumerable awards.<\/p>\n n the morning of February 6, 2022, when Mangeshkar passed away at Mumbai\u2019s Breach Candy Hospital, India not only lost one of its most prolific singers, but a musician who transformed the craft of film singing and became a benchmark for successive generations to emulate. She was admitted on January 8 due to Covid pneumonia. She initially responded to the treatment, doctors said, but her condition deteriorated in the first week of February and she had been on ventilator since.<\/p>\n Mangeshkar, or Lata Didi as she was fondly called, came from a household that worshipped music. Her father Dinanath Mangeshkar was a towering personality in Marathi theatre. He acted, produced and sang songs in plays that would change the face of Marathi theatre. He was one of the foremost exponents of Natya Sangeet and an accomplished Hindustani classical singer.<\/p>\n Born in September 1929, Lata was the first of a set of siblings \u2013 sisters Meena, Asha (Bhosle), and Usha, and brother Hridaynath \u2013 that ruled over Marathi and Hindi film music for decades. She was originally named Hema, but her father changed it to Lata after a character in one of his plays.<\/p>\n Though Lata had started singing in movies by the age of 13 in 1942, it was her breakthrough performance in Majboor in 1948 that catapulted her into mainstream Hindi films. Her mentor: music director Ghulam Haider, who, the urban legend goes, was so angry when a producer rejected Mangeshkar for being \u201ctoo thin\u201d thundered to the man that he would one day fall at Lata\u2019s feet and beg her to sing in his movies. There is no record of whether this actually happened, and Mangeshkar herself never confirmed it, but she has, on several occasions credited Haider to be her mentor. \u201cHe was the first music director who showed complete faith in my talent,\u201d she said in an interview in 2013.<\/p>\n The next year, 1949, she sang the soul-stirring Aayega aanewala in the hit Mahal, whose music director Khemchand Prakash was later also credited with mainstreaming another great singer, \u2013 Kishore Kumar. With Aayega aanewala, Mangeshkar had truly anchored her fame stepping out of the shadows of another film singing legend, Noor Jehan.<\/p>\n Between 1950 and well into the 2000s, Lata Mangeshkar lent her voice to scores of actors in not only Hindi and Marathi movies, but in languages as diverse as Bangla (in which she sang nearly 200 songs), Assamese, Gujarati, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, and Bhojpuri, among at least 25 others. Her career spanned from being Madhubala\u2019s voice in the late 1940s to singing a devotional song depicted on Mugdha Godse in 2009, when Mangeshkar turned 80.<\/p>\n In between, Mangeshkar won the Bharat Ratna, the Dadasaheb Phalke award, the French Legion of Honour, five Maharashtra state film awards, three national film awards, and countless other honors and citations, making her easily the most powerful Indian film singer of all eras outshining gender and time.<\/p>\n I consider it my honour that I have always received immense affection from Lata Didi. My interactions with her will remain unforgettable. I grieve with my fellow Indians on the passing away of Lata Didi. Spoke to her family and expressed condolences. Om Shanti.<\/p>\n — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nLata Mangeshkar’s Life and Career<\/h3>\n
Condolences Pour Out<\/h3>\n
\n