Lata Mangeshkar - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Lata Mangeshkar: Encyclopedia Ii - Lata Mangeshkar - 1960s: Lata Is The Playback Queen
Lata's playback songs for Madhubala - Mohe panghat and Jab pyaar kiya to darna kya from the movie Mughal-e-Azam (1960) -- became huge hit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noor Jehan: Encyclopedia Ii - Noor Jehan - Noor Jehan As A Singer/actress In Pakistan 1948 To 1961
The Partition of India was the partition of the film industry. During the partition in 1947, Noor Jehan decided to migrate to Lahore in n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mohammed Rafi: Encyclopedia Ii - Mohammed Rafi - Rise To Fame
Rafi's big time came when he met the composer Naushad in Bombay. Rafi's first song for Naushad was Hindustan ke hum hain (We belong to Hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sahir Ludhianvi: Encyclopedia - Sahir Ludhianvi
Sahir Ludhianvi, whose real name was Abdul Hayee (October 25, 1921-1980) was a popular Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms but mostly k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mohammed Rafi: Encyclopedia Ii - Mohammed Rafi - Categorized Songs Listing
Songs in Telugu Yentha Varu Kani Vedantulaina Kani (film: Bhale Thammudu) Na Madi Ninnu Pilichindi Ganamai (film:Aradhana) Taralentaga Ve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1929: Encyclopedia - 1929
1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1929 - Events. 1929 - January. January 2 - Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Addictive 2002 Song: Encyclopedia - Addictive 2002 Song
"Addictive" is a 2002 single recorded by Truth Hurts for Dr. Dre's Aftermath label. One of the label's few R&B hits, "Addictive" feat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia - Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India. The name is a conflation of Bomba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mohammed Rafi: Encyclopedia Ii - Mohammed Rafi - Last Years
His song Kya hua tera waada from the movie Hum Kisise Kum Nahin fetched him the national award and Filmfare Award for the year 1977. His ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mohammed Rafi: Encyclopedia Ii - Mohammed Rafi - Playback Provided For
N T Ramarao (for Telugu films Bhale Thammudu, Aradhana), Akkineni Nageswara Rao(for Hindi Suvarna Sundari), for Hindi Actors: Amitabh Bac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noor Jehan: Encyclopedia Ii - Noor Jehan - Noor Jehan As A Playback Singer 1962 To 2000
After she quit acting she took up playback singing and was the most famous playback singer through the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. She made a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mohammed Rafi: Encyclopedia Ii - Mohammed Rafi - Early Years
Rafi was born at Kotla Sultan Singh Village near Amritsar in Punjab, to a middle class Muslim family. His family shifted to Lahore when h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mohammed Rafi: Encyclopedia Ii - Mohammed Rafi - Awards
Filmfare Nominations and Awards 1960 Chaudhvin Ka Chand Ho (Film: Chaudhvin Ka Chand) - WON 1961 Husnwale Tera Jawaab Nahin (Film: Ghara...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noor Jehan: Encyclopedia Ii - Noor Jehan - Noor Jehan As A Singer/actress 1942 To 1947
Noor Jehan was first cast as a heroine in Khandaan (1942) opposite Pran (who later became one of India's Most Hated Villians) as the hero...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noor Jehan: Encyclopedia Ii - Noor Jehan - Filmography
Noor Jehan - Director. Chanwey (1951) (as Noorjahan) ... See also:Noor Jehan, Noor Jehan - Childhood and Stage Career, Noor Jehan -...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noor Jehan: Encyclopedia Ii - Noor Jehan - Affairs And Scandals
Noor Jehan lived her life on her own terms going through good times and bad, marriages, divorces, heartbreaks, casual and serious love af...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Playback Singer: Encyclopedia Ii - Playback Singer - Notable Playback Singers
(in alphabetical order) Playback singer - Male playback singers. Abhijeet Kishore Kumar K J Yesudas Kumar Sanu Manna Dey Mohammed Rafi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Songs Containing Overt Reference To Real Musicians: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Songs Containing Overt Reference To Real Musicians - List
Entries are listed with the following syntax: "Song Title" by musical artist(s) most associated with song references musicians and/or ban...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - M.s. Subbulakshmi: Encyclopedia Ii - M.s. Subbulakshmi - Singing Career
At 17, the child prodigy made her debut at the Madras Music Academy. Since then, she performed countless musical forms in different langu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of India: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of India - Pop Music
Main article: Indian pop. The biggest form of Indian pop music is filmi, or songs from Indian musical films. Independent pop acts such as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sahir Ludhianvi: Encyclopedia Ii - Sahir Ludhianvi - Poetry Lyrics And Bollywood
Sahir's poetry reflected the mood of the age. His poetry, similar to that of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (who was already an established poet when Sa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kishore Kumar: Encyclopedia Ii - Kishore Kumar - The Superstar Era
In 1969, Shakti Samanta produced the movie Aradhana with newcomer Rajesh Khanna. The composer was Sachin Dev Burman and he had divided so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Female Singers: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Female Singers - Pop
List of female singers - A-F. Paula Abdul Christina Aguilera Vanessa Amorosi Tori Amos Ann-Margret Fiona Apple Tina Arena Erykah Badu ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manoj Kumar: Encyclopedia Ii - Manoj Kumar - Early Life And Career
Manoj Kumar was born Harikishen Goswami in Lahore. When he was 10, his Hindu family had to move to India due to Partition. As a youth, he...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Veer-zaara: Encyclopedia Ii - Veer-zaara - The Story
Zaara Haayat Khan (Preity Zinta) is a Pakistani, travelling in India. Her bus overturns and she is saved by an Indian pilot, Veer Pratap ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indian Pop: Encyclopedia Ii - Indian Pop - Current Artists
With Chinoy's step forward, many new artists later came into what was dubbed "Indo-Pop". Some examples include Sonu Nigam, Rageshwari, Bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of India: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of India - Pop Music
Main article: Indian pop. The biggest form of Indian pop music is filmi, or songs from Indian musical films. Independent pop acts such as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asha Bhosle: Encyclopedia Ii - Asha Bhosle - Partnership With Music Directors
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 n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Danny Denzongpa: Encyclopedia Ii - Danny Denzongpa - Film Career
During his early film career, Danny used to practice learning Urdu, the lingua franca of Bollywood at that time by talking to the ocean. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Movie Details
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Linear chronology of events depicted in the film. Sometime during or before 2002, Lacuna's Dr. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sachin Dev Burman: Encyclopedia Ii - Sachin Dev Burman - Music Career
S D Burman composed music for 89 movies. Agneepath (1990) had an uncredited song composed by him - Nazar lagi raja tore bangle par from K...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rahul Dev Burman: Encyclopedia Ii - Rahul Dev Burman - Music Career
R D Burman gave music for 245 movies and a TV series Subah (1987). R D Burman did playback in eighteen movies composed by him. He was fam...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1929: Encyclopedia Ii - 1929 - Events
1929 - January. January 2 - Canada and the United States agree on a plan to preserve Niagara Falls. January 9 - The Seeing Eye is est...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Filmi: Encyclopedia Ii - Filmi - Music Directors
Naushad and Khaiyyam were noteworthy music directors of the 1940s and 1950s, writing scores redolent of the elegance of Northern India's ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia Ii - Bollywood - Genre Conventions
Most Bollywood films would be classified as musicals. Few movies are made without at least one song-and-dance number. However, they do no...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jagjit Singh: Encyclopedia Ii - Jagjit Singh - Career
Jagjit Singh - Early Years. His association with music goes back to his childhood days when he was twelve. He learnt music under Pandit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indian Pop: Encyclopedia Ii - Indian Pop - Current Artists
With Chinoy's step forward, many new artists later came into what was dubbed "Indo-Pop". Some examples include Sonu Nigam, Rageshwari, Bo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Indians: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Indians - Movies
See also: Dadasaheb Phalke Award winners List of Indians - Directors. Adoor Gopalakrishnan Aditya Chopra Bimal Roy Boney Kapoor David D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kundan Lal Saigal: Encyclopedia Ii - Kundan Lal Saigal - Early Life And Career At New Theatres
Saigal was born in Jammu, in the present-day Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir. His ancestors came from the city of Jalandhar in Punjab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sahir Ludhianvi: Encyclopedia Ii - Sahir Ludhianvi - Poetry, Lyrics And Bollywood
Sahir's poetry reflected the mood of the age. His poetry, similar to that of Faiz Ahmed Faiz (who was already an established poet when Sa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia Ii - Bollywood - History
Cinema first came to India in 1896, when the Lumiere Brothers’ Cinematographe showed six short films in the Watson Hotel. Three years l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia Ii - Bollywood - Bollywood Song And Dance
Bollywood film music is called filmi music (from Hindi, meaning "of films"). Songs from Bollywood movies are generally pre-recorded by pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of India: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of India - Classical Music
Main article: Indian classical music The two main traditions of classical music have been Carnatic music, found predominantly in the peni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia Ii - Bollywood - Cast And Crew
Bollywood employs people from all parts of India. It attracts thousands of aspiring actors and actresses, all hoping for a break in the i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia Ii - Bollywood - Bollywood Awards
The Indian screen magazine Filmfare started the first Filmfare Awards in 1953. Modeled after the poll-based merit format of the Academy o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia Ii - Bollywood - Controversies
Bollywood - Accusations of plagiarism. Constrained by rushed production schedules and small budgets, some Bollywood writers and musicia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia Ii - Bollywood - Finances
Bollywood budgets are usually modest by Hollywood standards. Sets, costumes, special effects, and cinematography were less than world-cla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Dvd
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is available in the U.S. in separate anamorphic widescreen and full screen editions as of September...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Film Setting And Locations
The film is set largely in the New York City suburb of Rockville Centre and Montauk, Long Island, and in New York City. It was filmed in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kishore Kumar: Encyclopedia Ii - Kishore Kumar - Childhood
Kumar was born in a Bengali family as Abhas Ganguly, in the small town of Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh. His father Kunjalal Ganguly was a la...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kishore Kumar: Encyclopedia Ii - Kishore Kumar - Last Years
Kishore's son Amit Kumar was already a popular singer in 1980s, thanks to patronage by R D Burman and Rajesh Roshan. But Kishore was stil...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manoj Kumar: Encyclopedia Ii - Manoj Kumar - The Patriotic Hero
Manoj's image as the patriotic hero started with the 1965 film Shaheed, which was based on the life of Bhagat Singh, a martyr in the stru...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Manoj Kumar: Encyclopedia Ii - Manoj Kumar - Later Career
The mid-1970s saw Manoj star in three hit movies. Roti Kapda Aur Makan (1974) was a social commentary featuring Zeenat Aman that won him ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Veer-zaara: Encyclopedia Ii - Veer-zaara - Music
The music is based on compositions by the late Madan Mohan, as revised by Madan Mohan's son, Sanjeev Kohli. Lyrics were contributed by Ja...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Veer-zaara: Encyclopedia Ii - Veer-zaara - Popularity
Veer-Zaara was heavily promoted pre-release. The film music, released before the actual cinematic release, was a hit, as was the movie. V...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kishore Kumar: Encyclopedia Ii - Kishore Kumar - Awards
The songs for which Kishore kumar won his filmfare awards: 1969 Roop tera mastana - Aradhana 1975 Dil aisa kisi ne mera toda - Amanush 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kishore Kumar: Encyclopedia Ii - Kishore Kumar - Kishore's Personal Life
Kishore Kumar married four times, to Ruma Guhathakurta (1950 - 1958), Madhubala (1960 - 1969), Yogeeta Bali (1975 - 1978) and Leena Chand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kishore Kumar: Encyclopedia Ii - Kishore Kumar - Kishore Becomes A Known Face
Kishore never wanted to act, but he was too afraid to rebel against his elder brother Ashok Kumar, who was hell-bent on making him a popu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kishore Kumar: Encyclopedia Ii - Kishore Kumar - The Lean Patch In Kishore's Career
After his wife Madhubala's death in 1969, there was a lean patch in Kishore's career. Most of his films as an actor flopped. Very few of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1929: Encyclopedia Ii - 1929 - Births
1929 - January-March. January 3 - Sergio Leone, Italian director (d. 1989) January 4 - Dr. Thomas Lincoln, American Informatics Pionee...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Indians: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Indians - Politics
List of Indians - P-R. P Chidambaram P.K. Vasudevan Nair P. V. Narasimha Rao Pranab Mukherjee Pratapsinh Rane, Chief Minister of Goa R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kishore Kumar: Encyclopedia Ii - Kishore Kumar - Initial Days In Bollywood
Kishore Kumar followed his elder brothers' footsteps and came to Mumbai to pursue a career in films as a singer. At this juncture, Anoop'...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Music And Soundtrack
The soundtrack album for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was released by Hollywood Records on March 16, 2004. It features the score...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia Ii - Bollywood - History
Main article: History of Indian cinema Cinema first came to India in 1896, when the Lumiere Brothers’ Cinematographe showed six short f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Filmi: Encyclopedia Ii - Filmi - Playback Singers
According to an interview that Lata Mangeshkar gave the author Nasreen Munni Kabir (Bollywood, Channel 4 Books, 2001), the Indian film in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia Ii - Bollywood - Bollywood Awards
The Indian screen magazine Filmfare started the first Filmfare Awards in 1953. These awards were to be Bollywood's version of the Academy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Awards And Recognition
Kaufman, Gondry, and Bismuth won the 2005 Academy Award for best original screenplay for Eternal Sunshine. Winslet was also nominated for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia Ii - Bollywood - Controversies
Bollywood - Accusations of plagiarism. Constrained by rushed production schedules and small budgets, some Bollywood writers have been k...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Filmi: Encyclopedia Ii - Filmi - Instrumentalists
Instruments played as background to the vocals include: Bansuri Daf Dholak Harmonium Jal Tarang Khol Manjira Rabab Santoor Sarangi Sarod...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sahir Ludhianvi: Encyclopedia Ii - Sahir Ludhianvi - Early Years
Sahir was born in Ludhiana, in the present day Indian Punjab. He belonged to a wealthy family but when his father married for the second ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - M.s. Subbulakshmi: Encyclopedia Ii - M.s. Subbulakshmi - Honours And Awards
While Lata Mangeshkar called her Tapaswini (the Renunciate), Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan termed her Swaralakshmi (the goddess of musical n...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of India: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of India - Folk Music
Main article: Indian folk music The arrival of movies and pop music weakened folk music's popularity, but cheaply recordable music has ma...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of India: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of India - Classical Music
Main article: Indian classical music The two main traditions of classical music have been Carnatic music, found predominantly in the peni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Of India: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Of India - Qawwali
Main article: Qawwali Qawwali is a Sufi form of devotional music based on the principles of Hindustani classical. It is performed with on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sachin Dev Burman: Encyclopedia Ii - Sachin Dev Burman - 1960s
Ill health caused a slump in his career in the early 1960s but his compositions for Bandini (1963), Guide (1965), Jewel Thief (1967) and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rahul Dev Burman: Encyclopedia Ii - Rahul Dev Burman - Music Style
Pancham was comfortable with all types of music. Be it the romantic Raat Kali from Buddha Mil Gaya(1971), the sexy cabaret Piya tu ab to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Plot Summary
Joel Barish (Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Winslet) meet for what they think is the first time on a Long Island Rail Road train from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia Ii - Bollywood - Cast And Crew
Bollywood employs people from all parts of India. It attracts thousands of aspiring actors and actresses, all hoping for a break in the i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sachin Dev Burman: Encyclopedia Ii - Sachin Dev Burman - 1970s
Dev Anand and S D Burman continued their musical partnership in Prem Pujari (1970). Sharmilee (1971), Abhimaan (1973), Mili (1975, comple...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Targeted Memory Erasure
Targeted memory erasure is a fictional non-surgical procedure. Its purpose is the focused erasure of memories, particularly unwanted and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: Encyclopedia Ii - Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind - Deleted And Moved Scenes
The shooting script — which has been published as a book (ISBN 1557046107) — and early drafts contain a fair amount of material that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asha Bhosle: Encyclopedia Ii - Asha Bhosle - Personal Life
Asha's house is situated in Peddar Road area of Mumbai. She has three children and five grandchildren. The eldest of her three children i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia Ii - Bollywood - Dialogues And Lyrics
The film script (frequently credited as "dialogues") and the song lyrics are often written by different people. The dialogues are mostly ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asha Bhosle: Encyclopedia Ii - 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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asha Bhosle: Encyclopedia Ii - Asha Bhosle - Rivalry With Lata Mangeshkar
Asha's sibling rivalry with her sister Lata Mangeshkar is often talked about, inspite of their insistence that these are just tales. As y...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bollywood: Encyclopedia Ii - Bollywood - Finances
Bollywood budgets are usually modest by Hollywood standards. Sets, costumes, special effects, and cinematography were less than world-cla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asha Bhosle: Encyclopedia Ii - Asha Bhosle - Awards
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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Asha Bhosle: Encyclopedia Ii - Asha Bhosle - Non-bollywood Music
Asha Bhosle - Private albums. In 1995, Asha underwent the ganda bandan (thread-tying) ceremony with Hindustani classical music maestro ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lata Mangeshkar: Encyclopedia Ii - Lata Mangeshkar - Singing Style
Lata's mastery over pitch and scale is considered amazing. Bade Ghulam Ali Khan once said about Lata that "she never sings off-key." Lyri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lata Mangeshkar: Encyclopedia Ii - Lata Mangeshkar - Lata The Person
More than her magical voice, it was Lata's humility that made her a favorite singer of all the composers, lyricists, actors and producers...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lata Mangeshkar: Encyclopedia Ii - Lata Mangeshkar - 1990s
By 1990, many of Lata's fans saw her as a living legend. She was the idol of many Indian girls, who were inspired to become singers thems...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lata Mangeshkar: Encyclopedia Ii - Lata Mangeshkar - 1950s: Popularity On The Rise
The 1950s saw Lata become the favorite singer of composers like Shankar Jaikishan, Sachin Dev Burman, C. Ramchandra, Madan Mohan, Hemant ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lata Mangeshkar: Encyclopedia Ii - Lata Mangeshkar - 1940s: Early Years In Bollywood
Lata Mangeshkar's first cinematic song was for the film Kiti Hasaal (1942), produced by Vasant Joglekar. However, her father disliked the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lata Mangeshkar: Encyclopedia Ii - Lata Mangeshkar - 1970s: Lata Is Ageless Diva
In her 40s, Lata was still the first choice of composers to sing for damsels in their 20s. 1971 saw release of much delayed movie Pakeeza...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lata Mangeshkar: Encyclopedia Ii - Lata Mangeshkar - 1980s: Lata Gets Selective
In 1980s, Lata voluntarily cut down on her singing to allow new younger talent to come up. In 1982, Lata once again worked with Khayyam f...   » Read the article