The duo is all set to present this unreleased song to the ‘Nightingale’ on her 92nd birthday. It was written by Gulzar and composed by Vishal Bhardwaj. One of Lata Mangeshkar’s unreleased songs, namely ‘Theek Nahi Lagta’, which was sung by Lata Mangeshkar in the 90s was never released. Vishal Bhardwaj and Gulzar to present her unreleased song on her 92nd birthday Her other Bengali hits include songs like “Ekbar Biday De Ma Ghure Ashi,” “Saat Bhai Champa,” “Ke Pratham Kache Esechi,” “Nijhum Sandhyay,” “Chanchal Mon Anmona,” “Asharh Srabon,” “Bolchi Tomar Kaney,” and “Aaj Mon Cheyeche”. It was one of the biggest hits of the 50s. She then sang ‘Rongila Bnashite’, composed by Bhupen Hazarika. She made her debut in 1956 with ‘Prem Ekbari Esechilo Nirobe’. Lata Mangeshkar has sung over 185 Bengali songs to date. In 1948, after Vinayak’s death, Ghulam Haider mentored her as a singer, introducing her to producer Sashadhar Mukherjee, who rejected Lata’s voice as “too thin”, not knowing that she was to become a legend later on. Read: World Heart Day 2021: History, Theme, Significance, Myths & Facts, all you need to know Her first Hindi song was “Mata Ek Sapoot Ki Duniya Badal De Tu” for the Marathi film ‘Gajaabhaau’ (1943). Later on, Vinayak gave her a role in a Marathi movie, ‘Pahili Mangalaa-gaur’ (1942), where she sang “Natali Chaitraachi Navalaai”, composed by Dada Chandekar. Her song “Naachu Yaa Gade, Khelu Saari Mani Haus Bhaari”, which was composed by Sadashivrao Nevrekar for Vasant Joglekar’s Marathi movie ‘Kiti Hasaal’ (1942), was dropped from the final cut. It was only in 1942, after the demise of her father, that Lata was helped by Master Vinayak, owner of the Navyug Chitrapat Movie Company, kickstarted her career as a playback singer and actress. She began her career at the age of nine when she accompanied her father’s theatre company in Sholapur and sang at a concert. The playback singer has recorded songs in a plethora of Hindi movies and has crooned songs in over 36 languages, singing over 50k songs, 30k alone in the 1960s. She was the eldest of four siblings- Meena Khadikar, Asha Bhosale, Usha Mangeshkar, and Hridaynath Mangeshkar. The eldest daughter of Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar, Lata Mangeshkar was born in the year 1929 in Indore.

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