The voice of Lata Mangeshkar represents supreme and pristine quality of Indian music. She is undoubtedly the greatest playback singer in the Hindi film industry. She has sung all forms of music like ghazals, songs, bhajans and even folk songs. In her lifetime, she has recorded no less than 50,000 songs. Lata Mangeshkar has also rendered her voice in other regional languages like Tamil, Bengali, and Malayalam etc. It is said that she has sung in more than twenty regional languages and over a thousand Hindi movies.
Lata Mangeshkar has recorded duets with all the top most singers. From legends of yesteryear like Manna Dey, Mohammed Rafi, Mukesh, Hemant Kumar, Mahendra Kapoor and Kishore Kumar to stars of current crop like Kumar Shanu, Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam, Kunal Ganjawala etc, Lata has sung with all of them with same comfort and excellence.
It is no less than impossible to think of listing all the hit songs of Lata Mangeshkar. She came into prominence with Aayega Aanewaala from the movie Mahal (1949). She has given thousand of hits in every era since 40s to first decade of the new millennium. Her initial hits were songs like,
- Mohabbat aisi dhadkan hai,
- Yeh zindagi usiki hai,
- Jaag dard ishq jaag,
- O aasman waale
- Aplam chaplam,
- Radha na bole na bole,
- Kitna haseen hai mausam,
- Dheere se aaja ri akhiyan mein,
- Shola jo bhadke,
- Bholi soorat dil ke khote,
- Dil dhadke nazar sharmaaye,
- Mere dil ki ghadi kare etc
She followed her initial hits with songs like
- Gore gore o baanke chore,
- Mehfil mein jal uthi shama,
- Dil ki duniya basake sanwariya,
- Mere man ka baawra panchi,
- Balma anadi man bhaaye
- Jiya bekaraar hai,
- Rasik Balma,
- Gumnaam hai koi,
- Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya,
- Ajeeb Dastaan Hai Yeh.
Sunidhi Chauhan was born on August 14, 1983. A successful playback singer, she has earned huge accolades over the years. Sunidhi is hugely talented and has sung more than 2000 songs. Her talent was first discovered when she was a child. She started to sing at an early age of four and a televised singing contest named ‘Meri Awaz Suno’ got her national recognition. She debuted with Hindi film Shastra but what got her fame and appreciation was Ram Gopal Verma’s film, Mast, in which she sang the hit song, Ruki Ruki Si Zindagi. Since then, it has been a truly remarkable journey for Sunidhi. She has worked with almost all the top musicians and her songs have often proved to be chartbusters. She has been nominated for no less than twelve Filmfare Awards out of which she has won it thrice. Other awards won by her are, Star Screen Awards, IIFA Awards and Zee Cine Award.
If there is one music personality that has given new voice and direction to Indian music then it is no other than A R Rahman. A winner of Oscar awards, he has truly made India proud. Mr. Rahman did what no other Indian musicians could achieve. Now, his is a name to reckon with on international music arena. Born on 6 January 1967, A R Rahman completely changed the landscape of Indian music. He not only changed the style but also brought never heard before freshness in film music. He is in the industry for just over one decade and he has managed to sell no less than one hundred million records world-wide and more than two hundred million cassettes. If that is not sign of popularity and charisma then what else could be?