What If Lata Had A Rival? - Page 4

Originally posted by: juggyE

- Nazariya Ki Mari (Rajkumari)
- Kaun Gali Gayo Shyam (Parveen Sultana)
- Mora Sajan Sautan Ghar Jaaye (Vani Jairam)
- Title alaap (Lata)

Thank you Juggy ji..

Later I found Rajkumari's "Nazariya ki maari" in my collection with Naushad sahib as the composer..dont have the one by Parveen sultana and Vani jairam..if you have it can you please upload it..

Couple of pages before I posted a question if anyone knows what kind of classical music training Noorjahan had? and what classical songs she sang? does anyone know that..

Other query I have is ... Duets by suman and lata?
The only one I know of is from movie Chaand "kabhii aaj kabhii kal " from Chaand (1959)?

Originally posted by: *dolly*

Thank you Juggy ji..

Later I found Rajkumari's "Nazariya ki maari" in my collection with Naushad sahib as the composer..dont have the one by Parveen sultana and Vani jairam..if you have it can you please upload it..

http://rapidshare.com/files/41574774/Pakeezah_-_08_-_Mora_Sa jan.mp3.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/41578715/Pakeezah_-_06_-_Kaun_Ga li.mp3.html">http://rapidshare.com/files/41578715/Pakeezah_-_06_-_Kaun_Ga li.mp3.html

regds!

Originally posted by: juggyE

http://rapidshare.com/files/41574774/Pakeezah_-_08_-_Mora_Sa jan.mp3.html
http://rapidshare.com/files/41578715/Pakeezah_-_06_-_Kaun_Ga li.mp3.html">http://rapidshare.com/files/41578715/Pakeezah_-_06_-_Kaun_Ga li.mp3.html

regds!

Thank you so much 😊😊..iam listening to them rightnow..I remember these now from the movie..they were played in the background I believe..thanks again..

The only rival she had was Asha. No one else could come close.

Originally posted by: T.

Lot of factors play a role - connections (as Maya said), family life, pricing (charging Rs. 50 vs. 500), getting songs which were perfect for her voice.

Lata didn't have any great connections. She came up the hard way. But her voice was such that having worked with her, MDs like Madan Mohan, Roshan, Naushad, Salil Choudhury etc did not want to work with anyone else. Sajjad Hussain said 'sirf Lata gaati hain, baaki sub rotey hain". It's not just that she got the songs that were perfect for her. People composed songs keeping her in mind. It's not for nothing that MDs scrambled over each other to get her to sing. RD Burman insisted that his first song had to be sung by Lata and he made his father patch up with her just for this. That first song is still one of the most remarkable songs made by RD.

I believe luck played a great role for Lata as well. She got the right kind of songs to suit her voice and performed them well. Lucky because market demand for such songs was high too at that time.

MDs did not compose songs with market demand in mind at that time. They composed to express their creativity. Every song needed to have the combined creative energies of the MD, singer, lyricisits, instrumentalists and technicians. Luck played a role only until the time she got noticed. After that it was a scenario where every MD wanted to work with her and would feel blessed after that. Only one MD could chart a path without her - OPN and I think it speaks a lot for Lata's virtuosity that only one MD did not work with her.

That being said, I think Lata is overrated. She is a great technical singer, no doubt, but she's not an incarnation of Saraswati Ma or the perfect female voice as she is called by many.

Until the 70s, her voice was blemish-less but after that some strain started coming in and by the 90s she was completely shrieky. I would say that the songs she sang before the 70s are so perfect that it is not surprising she is compared to a goddess. Sajjad Hussain said about her "Kambakht galti se bhi besura nahin gaati". Salil Choudhury who liked to compose complex tunes in the manner of Western classical music gave her such difficult tunes, knowing that only she could sing them perfectly. Her voice was like a perfectly tuned instrument.

*sees that fans are getting 😡 and runs for cover*

Till today, in every musical contest, people find it hard to reach even 50% of the perfection that Lata reached in her time. All her clones, be it Alka Yagnik or Anuradha Paudwal, could only sound like her clones. At higher pitches, it was so easy to spot who was the clone.

OHHHHHHHH THANX FOR THE INFO

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well said punjini ji 👏 👏 👏 .It is really sad to see
how people talk so casually about our legends.Somebody said that Lata ji
was overrated. 😕 .Abhi mai kya bolu 😕

With due respect to your opinion Sahana, I've read what those music composers said about her but I still do not agree with her being deified or that she is a perfect/complete singer. She was excellent technically and she could perform songs of a certain genre exceptionally well. But that is all.

Originally posted by: saan1997

well said punjini ji 👏 👏 👏 .It is really sad to see
how people talk so casually about our legends.Somebody said that Lata ji
was overrated. 😕 .Abhi mai kya bolu 😕

No need to be sad about it. It is simply my opinion about a singer the way someone might give an opinion about Amitabh Bachchan or JK Rowling or any other public personality.