Asha Bhosle - Brief biography

Asha Bhosle was born in the small hamlet of Goar in Sangli, Maharashtra, into the musical family of Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar. When she was just nine years old, her father passed away. The family moved from Pune to Kolhapur and then to Bombay. She and her elder sister Lata Mangeshkar started singing and acting in films to support their family. She sang her first film song Chala Chala Nav Bala for the Marathi movie Majha Bal (1943). The music for the film was composed by Datta Dawjekar. She made her Hindi film debut when she sang the song Saawan aayaSee also:

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Asha Bhosle - O P Nayyar. Music director O P Nayyar's association with Asha Bhosle is part of the Bollywood lore. When her talent was not recognized by anybody in Bollywood, O P Nayyar recognized her potential and gave patronage to her. He was the composer who first gave Asha Bhosle her own distinct identity. Many people speculate about a romantic relationship between the two. O P Nayyar first met Asha Bhosle in 1952, at the music recording of Chham Chhama Chham. [5See also:

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Asha's house is situated in Peddar Road area of Mumbai. She has three children and five grandchildren. The eldest of her three children is Hemant Bhosle (named after Hemant Kumar), who initially dabbled in music direction but then quit to become a pilot. Asha's daughter Varsha, who is younger than Hemant, works as a columnist for The Times of India and Rediff. The youngest child is Anand Bhosle, who has studied business and film direction. He manages Asha's career. Her grandson, Chaitanya (Chintu) Bhosle (Hemant's son) also ventured in the w ...

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Asha's sibling rivalry with her sister Lata Mangeshkar is often talked about, inspite of their insistence that these are just tales. As young children, they were very close. As a child, Lata used to carry Asha all the time. Once she fell down the stairs carrying Asha and there is a scar on her forehead that is very visible in pictures. They were so inseparable that when Lata went to school she would take Asha with her, but one day the teacher protested and said that they cannot have two students on one fee. Lata refused to return to school without Asha and quit ...

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Asha Bhosle - Private albums. In 1995, Asha underwent the ganda bandan (thread-tying) ceremony with Hindustani classical music maestro Ali Akbar Khan to learn a classical repertoire held within the Maihar gharana (stylistic school of Indian classical music), as handed down to Khan by his father Allauddin Khan (the guru of Ravi Shankar). Later, Asha and Ustad Ali Akbar Khan recorded eleven fixed compositions (or bandishes) in California for Legacy, a pri ...

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Asha Bhosle has won seven Filmfare awards. She won the award in 1967 and 1968, when Lata Mangeshkar still used to accept the award (Lata asked not to be considered for the award after 1969 to promote new talent). After receiving the award in 1977, Asha emulated her elder sister and requested that her name not be considered for the awards hereafter. She was later given the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Following is the list of her Filmfare Awards: 1967 – Garibon ki suno (Dus Lakh, 1966) 196 ...

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