The Punjabi duet is the most famous part of “Ek thi ladki” about a girl (Meena Shorey) running away from a blackmailer and working as a secretary. Mangeshkar lent her voice to top star Meena Kumari in ...

Entering the sparkling galaxy of Hindi film music with the haunting "Aayega Aanewala" ("Mahal", 1949) for ethereal Madhubala, ...

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As a child, the revered Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar wasn’t allowed to go to the movies much. Her father, a strict and tradition-bound musician and theatre-company owner, didn’t care for the medium ...

Mangeshkar, whose voice can be heard in numerous Bollywood musicals, was hospitalized last month after contracting COVID-19. By The Associated Press Lata Mangeshkar, a legendary Indian singer with a ...

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Lata Mangeshkar, the singing voice behind many Bollywood actresses, died Sunday at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, India. She was 92 and the cause was complications of Covid-19, said Pratit Samdani, ...

Indian music sensation Lata Mangeshkar has died. She was the singing voice of the leading lady in countless Indian movie musicals. She recorded more than 25,000 songs. Mangeshkar was 92 years old.

Lata Mangeshkar, one of the most enduring and popular singers in the history of Bollywood, has died at 92. She died in Mumbai, where she had been hospitalized with pneumonia and COVID-19. Prime ...