Lata Mangeshkar: My Favourites, Vol. 2

Anirudha Bhattacharjee, Dr. Chandrashekhar Rao (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Publishing USA (Verlag)
979-8-7651-0781-2 (ISBN)

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For her album My Favourites, Vol. 2, Lata Mangeshkar, one of India's all-time most influential singers and known as "the Nightingale of India," chooses 50 songs as her favourites among her own work, from a repository of over 5,000. The book covers an expanse of nearly forty years, connecting the reader to the real-life events behind the songs, going back to the times when music listening in India was limited to the radio, the 78 RPM shellac, and the occasional visit to the cinema, and later, the vinyl records, cassettes, the 30 minutes Chitrahaar on television every week, and VHS systems which were finding a place in middle-class homes. Apart from delving deep into their memories, the authors also analyse the songs based on their interaction with luminaries including singers, music directors, their progenies, filmmakers, actors, and people connected with film and music in general.

Anirudha Bhattacharjee is a Distinguished Alumnus Awardee of IIT Kharagpur, India, a Business Consultant by profession and the author of R D Burman: The Man the Music (2011), which won the National Book Award for best book on cinema; Gaata Rahe Mera Dil (2015); S D Burman: The Prince-Musician (2018); and Kishore Kumar: The Ultimate Biography (2022). Chandrashekhar Rao has been a regular contributor to Khaleej Times and Gulf News, among others, where he conducted interviews with several luminaries of Indian music, from Pandit Ravi Shankar to Lata Mangeshkar.

Who is Lata Mangeshkar?
Lata Mangeshkar and LP records – a story
Documenting the album
Nomenclature and sources used in the book.
Getting started
Music Director
Lyricist
1. In the beginning
Master Ghulam Haider – the melody queen maker
Masterji – Khemchand Prakash
Anil Biswas – the first star
2. The Trailblazers
Shankar Jaikishan – the allrounders
3. The Classicists
Naushad – the “Lucknavi” master
Sachin Dev Burman – the Folkman from Bengal
Roshan - ode to Hindustani classical
Jaidev – the fakir
4. The Conventional
Husnlal Bhagatram – Punjab celebrated
Shyam Sundar – Pathos of Punjab
Vasant Desai – soft and colourful
5. The Unconventional
C Ramchandra – music is fun
Salil Chowdhury – the genius
Sajjad Hussain – the perfectionist
6. The Tearful Craving
Madan Mohan –closest to the heart
7. The Trailblazers - II
Rahul Dev Burman – the modernist
Laxmikant Pyarelal – the born survivors
8. The Subdued Nuances
Hemant Kumar - friendly notes
Khayyam – poetic feel
Rajesh Roshan - relaxed gait
Ghulam Mohammed - Pure heart
9. The Less Spoken
Chitragupta- the gentle soul
S Mohinder – solitary reaper
10. The Lesser Heard
Hridaynath Mangeshkar – family
Fayyaz Shaukat & K Mahavir – lesser knowns
11. The Last Song
Ravindra Jain – Raj Kapoor’s last magnum opus
12. Summing Up
Acknowledgements
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.1.2025
Reihe/Serie	33 1/3 South Asia
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 197 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
ISBN-13	979-8-7651-0781-2 / 9798765107812
Zustand	Neuware