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Rimpa.

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Posted: 15 years ago

#21

Originally posted by: musicmuse
BTW, latas singing career started off emulating noorjehan😳geeta dutt was no where in the picture that that point in time.😳

Sorry, I goofed up..It was Asha who copied Geeta Dutt

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Indradhanush

@Indradhanush

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Posted: 15 years ago

#22

The book by Raju Bhartan ; A journey down the melody lane is proving to be too hot.

Other than this instance about Lata ji , there are another siting like the ego clash between Pt Ravi Shankar & Lata.

Lata Mangeshkar and Ravi Shankar clashed over a recording for Hrishikesh Mukherjee's film Anuradha.

The film Anuradha had music done by Ravi Shankar, so Mind-soothing were Ravi Shankar's compositions for Lata in Anuradha, a show that, at best, was an artistic success, fetching its mentor, Hrishikesh ("Lata is Saraswati") Mukherjee, the 1960 President's Gold Medal by way of the National Award.

Yet there was pending, as the Anuradha voice recordings were set to conclude, an old-world number (cast in the vocal image of Bengal's renowned bhajan singer Juthika Ray and going as Saanwre saanwre kaahe mose karo joraa joree). This Raga Bhairavi based composition had two versions,one was done by Lata but for other Ravi Shankar got rebuffed.

Later on Ravi Shankar, logically, expected a more conciliatory approach from Lata on Meera [a 1979 film]. Such an approach never came and it obviously became a point of personal prestige with Pandit Ravi Shankar to record Meera in the voice of Vani Jairam, one whose vocals he had tested before. Gulzar's Meera did not do all that well but its music, in its international edition, was a total sellout with seven songs and seven songlets, all in the renouncingly mood-capturing voice of Vani. Such was the magic of Pandit Ravi Shankar's name outside India.

Edited by Indradhanush - 15 years ago