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Tujhse Naraaz

Nahin Zindagi…

But Lata was angry at a few things and she spoke her mind, leading to
many controversies in her life, writes S Ramachandran

Lata Mangeshkar, by her own admission, Credit controversy
was short-tempered in the early part of her
career. Being a breadwinner of the winner
with her father passing away when she was
just 13, she shouldered the responsibility
of her mother, four siblings, maternal aunt
and her daughter. Lata had to struggle in
the early days of her career. So, in 1948,
when she was going to record a song for
Khemchand Prakash for his film Ziddi,
she noticed that there was a boy following
her constantly and he also reached the
recording studio. Lata informed the music
composer that this boy had been following
her in the train and till the studio and
even wanted to scold him, but Khemchand
laughed and introduced him as Kishore
Kumar to her. Not surprising that the first Lata and Raj Kapoor
song they recorded together was called ‘Yeh The following year, the songs of the Kamal
Kaun Aaya Re’! Amrohi film Mahal went on to be a huge
But then there were times when these hit – specially ‘Aayega Aanewala’ and it got
things turned into a controversy. a lot of people including All India Radio as

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