lata mangeshkar lag jaa gale. In 1929, Mangeshkar was born in Indore, Maharashtra, to Deenanath Mangeshkar, a Marathi and Konkani musician, and his wife Shevanti (in present-day Madhya Pradesh and then the capital of the princely state of Indore which was part of the Central India Agency in British India). Deenanath Mangeshkar, her father, was a classical singer as well as a stage actor. Deenanath’s second wife, Shevanti (later renamed Shudhamati); a Gujarati woman from Thalner, Bombay Presidency (now in northwest Maharashtra), was Shevanti’s older sister.
Ganesh Bhatt Navathe Hardikar (Abhisheki), her paternal grandfather; was a priest who performed the Shiva Lingam Abhishekam at Goa’s Mangueshi Temple. She was the family’s oldest daughter. Her siblings are Meena, Asha, Usha, and Hridaynath.
Career As A Musician
Her father taught her the basics of music. She began performing in her father’s musical performances when she was five years old (Sangeet Natak in Marathi). She left on the first day of school since her sister Asha was not allowed to accompany her. Mangeshkar’s father died of heart illness when she was 13 years old. They were looked after by Master Vinayak (Vinayak Damodar Karnataki); the owner of the Navyug Chitrapat movie studio and a close friend of the Mangeshkar family. He assisted her in launching a singing and acting career.
Ghulam Haider, the music director, groomed her as a singer after Vinayak’s death in 1948. He brought Lata to Sashadhar Mukherjee, who was working on the film Shaheed at the time, but Mukherjee considered Lata’s voice as “too thin.” Producers and filmmakers would “fall at Lata’s feet” and “ask her” to sing in their films in the coming years, said an irritated Haider. Haider gave Lata her first break with the song “Dil Mera Toda, Mujhe Kahin Ka Na Chhora” from the movie Majboor, which became her first big breakthrough cinema hit (lyrics by Nazim Panipati). In a September 2013 interview on her 84th birthday; Lata herself stated, “Ghulam Haider is, without a doubt, my Godfather. He was the first music director to believe in my abilities completely.”
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