She also recalled her collaboration with the music directors, young and old. "Hindi music is also there and so is Gujarati. "I love Bangla music and the Bengali songs that I have sung. "I don't know whether people know this but I like the south Indian style of music. Lata ji said she loves different music styles from across the country and the fact that there are so many languages. The singer collaborated with Khayyam on songs like Ae dil-e-naadan, Aaja re o mere dilbar, Mohabbat bade kaam ki cheez hai and Phir chiddi raat. Lata ji and Sajjad sahab worked on several hits, including Bahaar aai, lutaa dil mera hai aabaad ho kar, Aaj mere naseeb ne mujhko rula rula diya and Woh toh chale gaye ae dil.
"Sajjad sahab's music had an Arabic touch and he would tell you how to sing. I still like the songs he created, they are different," she said. "Both Sajjad Hussain sahab and Khayyam sahab had their own style. The compositions he created, I like even today. "The music that I find most unique is Sajjad Hussain sahab's. She went on to recall the music directors she loved working with. there are many such hindrances," she pointed out.Īsked what songs she likes to hum, Lata ji said, "It will create trouble if I tell you this ( gadbad ho jayegi)." "Sometimes, the producer does not give permission or the film stays unreleased or the lyricist does not agree. "Also, it is not always possible to get them released. But if it does not fit, it just stays in storage and people forget about it with time. So they remove the song and try to put it in another film.
"What happens is that, sometimes, there are too many songs created for a movie and it hinders the flow of the film. Like Theek nahi lagta, many songs have got lost over time, added the legend. "And now, whoever sings that song or writes about me says those lines," Lata ji said. Later, even I started saying, 'My voice is my identity.' "When I was singing ( this song), he came to me and gently said, ' Meri awaaz hi pehchan hai aur ye hai pehchan' or something like that. "Everyone in the country knows that Gulzar sahab writes beautifully. The memory of the day she sang Naam gum jayega is still vivid in her mind. She said she still remembers how his words ' Meri awaaz hi pehchan hai' from the song Naam gum jaayega ( Kinara, 1971) came to reflect her own journey in music. Gulzar has been an abiding favourite with Lata ji, the golden voice behind more than 25,000 songs in different languages. "I am grateful to God and to my parents for whatever I have today." "There have been better singers than me some of them are not with us today. "It is their blessing that people like whatever I sing. All this is nothing I believe but the blessings of my parents, our deity Mangesh, Sai Baba and God," the singing legend said.
"Some people call me Saraswati or say that I have the goddess's blessings.
"That long journey is with me and that little girl is still with me. Lata ji, who turned 92 on September 28, remembered her early days and said the memories are still fresh in her mind. He then mixed it again and that's how the song came to be released," the music icon told PTI in a phone interview from Mumbai. "He also told Gulzar sahab about the song. "I said, 'Why would I mind? It is such a beautiful song. "Vishal ji told me that the song has been found and asked whether he could release it. Theek nahi lagta, a song written by Lata ji's favourite lyricist Gulzar, was believed to have been lost.įilm-maker Vishal Bhardwaj, who composed the music and recorded it for a film he wanted to make, discovered it recently and called Lata ji to seek her permission to release the song. The little girl who started singing professionally more than seven decades ago is still there somewhere, says Lata Mangeshkar, as she recalls the beginnings of her long career that notched another hit just last month with the release of a new song.