Here's looking at some of the firsts through her eventful, triumphant journey.
Here's what your favourite Bollywood stars are tweeting.
Writer-director Rumi Jaffery, who has worked with ace cinematographer Ashok Mehta in God Tussi Great Ho, pays tribute.
After making a connection with the audience in Jab We Met, Shahid Kapoor's next is Kismet Konnection opposite Vidya Balan. Set to release on July 18, the film is directed by Aziz Mirza.
From aadmi to andas, Bollywood songs dispense gyaan for every occasion. But nothing beats its obsession with pyaar.
Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar, who was in the intensive care unit of Mumbai's Breach Candy Hospital, passed away on Sunday morning. She was 92.
On Ashaji's 89th birthday on September 8, Subhash K Jha revisits some of her lesser-known classics.
'The world lost you, but you still exist as an inspiration to those who dare to dream big.'
As new OTT release Bawaal tackles the lives of a terribly unhappy couple, and Satyaprem Ki Katha about a young wife with a tragic secret is a box-office success, here's pick of ten (out of a considerable number) of relatively recent films about troubled marriages.
'He made people happy with his songs.' 'What matters is how many people you really make happy, how you connect and make them joyous and help them forget their problems.'
Like there's no dearth of memorable bus scenes and train imagery in Hindi movies, planes are equally prolific on silver screen.
The funeral took place in the evening at the Vile Parle Seva Sansthan Shamshan Bhoomi in suburban Mumbai, many friends of the Bachchan family attended it to pay their last respects.
Saluting the late music composers most memorable film songs.
'Many have tried to imitate her. They've fallen flat on their faces.'
One could be anywhere -- huddled around a transistor radio at home in the evenings, walking past a neighbour's house, or waiting at a bus stop and Lata Mangeshkar's voice would reach us. Aseem Chhabra pays rich tribute to The Legend.
Eid-ul-Fitr has been celebrated in a big way in Hindi films.
Music composer Aadesh Shrivastava who was battling cancer passed away post midnight on Friday. He was 51.
Film music flourished in the 1970s. Some old masters did some great work, but it was also the decade of new composers.
Eat right and keep the heat away!
Sukanya Verma looks at 12 times the superstar offered food for thought on subjects as varied as nation building, team spirit and the stupidity of big fat Indian weddings while wolfing down a meal.
'I cannot be confined to just one or two kinds of music.'