Published 22:47 IST, September 27th 2019
Amit Shah releases Lata Mangeshkar portrait book on her B'day eve
Union Home Minister Amit Shah released a compilation of portraits of legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar on the eve of her 90th birthday on Friday
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah released a compilation of portraits of legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar on eve of her 90th birthday on Friday. portraits were sourced from archives of Gautam Rajadhyaksha and were released in presence of her sister Usha Mangeshkar.
'Delighted to release a compilation of portraits of Lata Didi from archives of Gautam Rajadhyaksha on eve of her birthday. May God bless Lata didi with a long and healthy life. Lata Mangeshkar," Shah tweeted.
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Lata Mangeshkar's achievements
legendary playback singer and occasional music composer Lata Mangeshkar is one of best-kwn and most respected playback singers in country who started her career in 1942. In a career of over seven decades she has received National Film Awards three times along with four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards and many more.
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Her famous song 'Lag Ja Gale Se' has been recorded for over a thousand Hindi films and sung in over 36 regional Indian langus and foreign langus. She is also second vocalist, after late Indian singer M. S. Subbulakshmi, to have ever been awarded Bharat Ratna.
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Lata Mangeshkar wishes Yash Chopra
Today, film fraternity celebrates Yash Chopra's 87th birthday. Lata Mangeshkar also paid tribute to her late director-producer. In her tweet, she addressed him as her bror she also shared a track titled Tu Mere Saamne from Shah Rukh Khan and Juhi Chawla-starrer Darr, which she had sung in Yash Chopra directorial venture.
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(With Inputs from ANI)
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22:07 IST, September 27th 2019