Awards for Lata Mangeshkar

Awards for Lata Mangeshkar

Awards of the International Indian Film Academy
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2007	Nominated	Popular Award	Best Playback Singer - Female for: Rang De Basanti (2006) For the song "Luka Chhupi"
2002	Nominated	Popular Award	Female Playback Singer for: Zubeidaa (2001) For "So Gaye Hain".
Filmfare Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1995	Won	Special Award
1994	-	Lifetime Achievement Award
1970	Won	Filmfare Award	Best Playback Singer - Female for: Jeene Ki Raah (1969) For the song "Aap mujhe acche lagne lage...".
1967	Nominated	Filmfare Award	Best Playback Singer for: Do Badan (1966) For the song "Lo Aagi Unki Yaad".
			Best Playback Singer for: Guide (1965) For the song "Kaanto Se Kheech".
1966	Won	Filmfare Award	Best Playback Singer for: Khandan (1965) For the song "Tumhi mere mandir, tumhi meri pooja".
	Nominated	Filmfare Award	Best Playback Singer for: Himalay Ki Godmein (1965) For the song "Ek Tu Na Mila".
1965	Nominated	Filmfare Award	Best Playback Singer for: Sant Gyaneshwar (1964) For the song "Jyot Se Jyot Jagate Chalo".
1964	Nominated	Filmfare Award	Best Playback Singer for: Taj Mahal (1963) For the song "Jo Waada Kiya Woh Nibhana padega"
1963	Won	Filmfare Award	Best Playback Singer for: Bees Saal Baad (1962) For the song "Kahin deep jale kahin dil...".
	Nominated	Filmfare Award	Best Playback Singer for: Anpadh (1962) For the song "Aapki Nazrone".
1961	Nominated	Filmfare Award	Best Playback Singer for: Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai (1960) For the song "Dil Apna Aur Preet Parai"
			Best Playback Singer for: Mughal-E-Azam (1960) For the song "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya"
1959	Won	Filmfare Award	Best Playback Singer for: Madhumati (1958) For the song "Aaja re pardesi".
National Film Awards, India
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1991	Won	Silver Lotus Award	Best Playback Singer (Female) for: Lekin... (1990)
Screen Weekly Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2001	Won	Noor Jahan Award
1997	-	Lifetime Achievement Award
Zee Cine Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2002	Nominated	Popular Award	Best Playback Singer Female for: Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... (2001) For the song "Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham".

Lata Mangeshkar – the uncrowned queen of Indian playback singing.

Lata Mangeshkar – the uncrowned queen of Indian playback singing.

Lata Mangeshkar had dominated Indian playback singing for such
a long period of time that she can be considered uncrowned
queen of Indian playback singing. She made her presence felt
right from the time of Mahal, picturised on Madhubala, with hits
songs like “ayega anewala”, in 1947, till Dil to Pagal Hai, picturised
on Madhuri Dixit. Not only was she sublime in her performance,
she had been the role model of numerous female singers of the present generation.

She was blessed with a romantic voice which had classical training
and outstanding range which could suit any situation in a film.
Her association with all the composers (excepting OP Nayyar),
creates a separate identity along with Rafi. Her everlasting performances
include “duniya kare sawal” picturised on Meena Kumari, composed
by Roshan, “aja re pardesi” picturised on Vaijayantimala, composed
by Salil Chowdhury, “aaj phir jeene ki tamanna hai”, picturised
on Wahida Rehman, composed by Sd Burman, “aji ruth kar ab”
composed by Shankar Jaikishan for Sadhna, “alla tero naam”
composed by Jaidev for Nanda, “aya sawan jhumke” composed
by Laxmikant Pyarellal for Asha Parekh, “dil dhoonta hai”
composed by Madanmohan for Sharmila Tagore, “o jab tak hai jaan”
for Hema Malini, “is more se jate hai” for Suchitra Sen, composed
by RD Burman. The list can go on. Even composers like
Naushad, Ravi, Kalyanji Anandji, Khayyam loved her the most.


Even actresses like Madhuri Dixit, Kareena Kapoor, Sri Devi,
Rani Mukherjee, Preety Zinta had given lips in her songs. She
had sung for all the big banners of Bollywood, including
Raj Kapoor’s Banner, Dev Anand’s Navketan Banner, Dilip Kumar
production, GP Sippy Banner, etc. She had sung between
25,000 to 30,000 songs in a span of 60 years. So her
contribution cannot be highlighted in a small article.


Neither do the awards given to her including filmfare
awards, national awards project her domination in
the industry. Other than Rafi, no other playback singer
had dominated the Indian silver screen like Lata. She
also had sung huge number of duet songs with Rafi, Kishore,
Mukesh, Manna Dey, etc. Singers of the new generation
should follow her footsteps for sustaining the challenges
in playback singing according to the need of the present time.

Article By: Supriya Chatterji.

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Biography for Lata Mangeshkar

Biography for LATA MANGESHKAR

Date of Birth

28 September 1929, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

Nickname

The Nightingale of Bollywood

Mini Biography

Lata Mangeshkar was born in Indore on

September 8, 1929, and became, quite simply,

the most popular playback singer in

Bollywood's history. She has sung for over

50 years for actresses from Nargis to

Preity Zinta, as well as having recorded albums

of all kinds (ghazals, pop, etc). Until the 1991 edition,

when her entry disappeared, the Guinness Book

of World Records listed her as the most-recorded

artist in the world with not less than 30,000 solo,

duet,and chorus-backed songs recorded in 20

Indian languages between 1948 and 1987. Today

that number might have reached 40,000!

She was born the daughter of Dinanath Mangeshkar,

the owner of a theater company and a reputed

classical singer in his own right. He started giving

Lata singing lessons from the age of five, and she

also studied with renowned singers Aman Ali Khan

Sahib and Amanat Khan. Even at a young age she

displayed a God-given musical gift and could master

vocal exercises the first time.

Ironically, for someone of her stature, she made

her entry into Bollywood at the wrong time -

around the 1940s, when bass singers with heavily

nasal voices, such as Noor Jehan and Shamshad Begum

were in style. She was rejected from many

projects because it was believed that her

voice was too high-pitched and thin.

The circumstances of her entry into the industry

were no less inauspicious - her father died in

1942, the responsibility of earning income to

support her family fell upon her, and between 1942

and 1948 she acted in as many as eight films in

Hindi and Marathi to take care of economic hardships.

She made her debut as a playback singer in the

Marathi film Kiti Hasaal (1942) but, ironically,

the song was edited out!

However, in 1948, she got her big break with

Ghulam Haider in the film Majboor (1948), and

1949 saw the release of four of her films: Mahal

(1949), Dulari (1949), Barsaat (1949), and Andaz

(1949); all four of them became runaway hits,

with their songs reaching to heights of what was

until then unseen popularity. Her unusually high

-pitched singing rendered the trend of heavily

nasal voices of the day totally obsolete and, within

a year, she had changed the face of playback singing

forever. The only two lower-pitched singers to

survive her treble onslaught to a certain extent

were Geeta Dutt and Shamshad Begum.

Her singing style was initially reminiscent of

Noor Jehan, but she soon overcame that and

evolved her own distinctive style. Her sister,

Asha Bhosle, too, came up in the late 1950s and the two of

them were the queens of Indian playback singing right through

to the 1990s. Her voice

had a special versatile quality, which meant that finally

music composers could stretch their creative experiments

to the fullest. Although all her songs were immediate

hits under any composer, it was the composers

C. Ramchandra and Madan Mohan who made her

sound her sweetest and challenged her voice like

no other music director.

The 1960s and 1970s saw her go from strength

to strength, even as there were accusations that

she was monopolizing the playback-singing

industry. However, in the 1980s, she cut down

her workload to concentrate on her shows abroad.

Today, Lata sings infrequently despite a sudden

resurgence in her popularity, but even today some

of Hindi Cinema's biggest hits, including Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

(1995), Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), and Veer-Zaara

(2004) feature her legendary voice.

No matter which female playback singer breaks

through in any generation, she cannot replace the

timeless voice of Lata Mangeshkar. She is an icon

beyond icons....

IMDb Mini Biography By: Q. Leo Rahman

Trivia

Sister of Asha Bhosle

Daughter of Dinanath Mangeshkar

A legendary playback singer in Indian movies, she

has recorded over 30,000 songs in 14 Indian

languages, making her the most recorded voice in

history.

Was awarded the Bharatha Rathna, the highest civilian

honor by the Government of India.

Mentioned in the song "Brimful of Asha" by

Cornershop. (The title refers to her sister, Asha Bhosle,

who is also mentioned in the song.).

Personal Quotes

About singing for Veer-Zaara (2004): "Madan Mohan

was like my brother. Yashji's like my brother. I felt I

had gone back in time."

About her love of diamonds: "I've been fond of diamonds

from childhood. As a child, my father used to design jewelry.

But we couldn't afford them. He had a keen eye for jewelry

and was fond of wearing precious stones. We kids were equally

fascinated by jewels. But until I became a professional

playbacsinger, I refused to wear jewelry. I had decided I'd wear

only diamonds."

About the number of her songs being remixed in music

videos: "I don't like it. I don't like remix albums as a

concept. On top of that, these girls dancing in itsy-bitsy

clothes suggestively! From childhood we've been told

that a woman's dignity is in the way she conducts

herself in public. The less you reveal, the more

attractive you appear. I must say that the songs that

I considered vulgar in those days seem like bhajans

[devotional music] compared with what's being sung

these days! Yes, I've sung naughty songs, but "Kaanta

Lagaa," for instance, had another context when I sang

it. I feel sorry for the girl who was seen in the music video

of "Kaanta Lagaa." I've heard she's from a decent family.

Why wasn't she stopped by her family? Ambition? If she

did it with their consent, then God help them. I struggled

hard to get where I am - that's why I am still here."

About music composition: "It doesn't suit me. Although

I've done it in the past, now I don't feel like it. I don't

think I've the patience."

About the December 2004 tsunami: "This sort of

calamity shakes our faith in every law of nature. Little

children, women, and entire families have perished. We

must help...yes we must."