Singer Lata Mangeshkar, who ruled Bollywood for 80 years by various names like Swara Kokila, Lata Tai, Didi, passed away today at the age of 92. The whole world was crazy about her, but she herself was crazy about her father’s songs. Even 92-year-old Lata did not forget her father’s songs while fighting for life on ventilator in the hospital for the last one month due to corona infection. Even while on ventilator, she was listening to her father’s songs with earphones on.

Lata’s father was a theater artist and singer.
Lata Mangeshkar’s father Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar was a theater artist and singer. It was he who started singing Lata in childhood and predicted that one day Lata would become a very big singer. However, Pandit Dinanath passed away when Lata was just 13 years old.

According to media reports, voiceover artist Harish Bhimani quoted Lata Mangeshkar’s brother Hridaynath Mangeshkar as saying that Lata used to miss her father very much on ventilator in her last days. She had asked Hridaynath for the recordings of the father’s songs in the hospital’s ICU and was listening to them. Along with this, despite the doctors’ refusal, she used to remove the mask and try to hum her father’s songs. Two days before his death, he started listening to songs by asking for earphones in the hospital itself due to difficulty in hearing.

Lata had a unique relationship with her father.
Lata ji was born on September 28, 1929 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. Since childhood, seeing her father sing, she tried to sing like him in private, but was afraid to sing in front of her father. Dinanath loved him very much. Earlier she was named Hema, but later Pandit Dinanath changed her name to Lata after getting influenced by the character named Latika in one of his plays ‘Bhav Bandhan’. Dinanath first heard Lata singing at the age of 5 and was stunned. Since then, along with Lata’s father, he had also become a guru.

There should not be a hindrance in Riyaz, so
Pandit Dinanath was so sure of getting Lata’s voice to dominate the whole world that she stopped her studies after sending her to school for just 2 days to save her from becoming a hindrance in her Riyaz. was given. After this, all the studies of Lata were done at home. He was initiated into music by Pandit Dinanath himself and taught many languages ​​at home.

Sung for the first time on December 16, 1941,
Lata ji, at the age of 12, recorded the song for the radio program in front of Mike in the studio for the first time on December 16, 1941. After this, at the age of 13, he sang for the first time in the 1942 Marathi film ‘Pehli Mangalagore’. With this his journey of 7 decades of melodious songs had started.

His entry in Hindi films was in the year 1947 through the film ‘Aapki Seva’. He has sung more than 50 thousand songs in 36 languages ​​so far in a singing career of 80 years. In the year 2015, Lata ji sang for the last time in Nikhil Kamat’s film ‘Dunno Y 2’, since then she was away from singing till now.