'Many thought it was the end for me,' Lataji told Subhash K Jha. 'I just couldn't sing!'
I was being slowly poisoned' 'I was bed-ridden for three months and was so weak.'
Biswajit, movie heart-throb of the 1960s, remembers The Legend.
Lataji had once picked her favourites, albeit reluctantly, and told Subhash K Jha just why they were so close to her heart.
Dinesh Raheja doffs his hat to the movie legend, who will be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award this year.
Sukanya Verma presents a playlist of 100 Lata Mangeshkar songs from different decades of Hindi films -- songs that make me sing, smile, sob and sigh.
Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.
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