Lata Mangeshkar: The Queen of Melody DVD (1 Disc) (UK)

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Starring: Lata Mangeshkar
Dvd Release: 2nd September, 1999
Number Of Discs: 1
Format: NTSC, Region 0 Encoding

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Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar, is the most revered Indian singer, whose career has spanned six decades. Although she has sung non-filmi songs in various languages, she is chiefly known as a Bollywood Hindi playback singer. Along with her sister Asha Bhosle, she is regarded as the largest contributor to the Bollywood film music. Latas mesmerizing melodious voice has won fans all over the Indian subcontinent & the world. Time magazine recognized her as the undisputed & indispensable queen of Indias playback singing. Lata was born in Indore as the eldest daughter of Pandit Dinanath Mangeshkar in a middle-class Maharashtrian family. Her father was a theatre-artist & singer. Music was a part of her family. Her siblings Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar, Meena Mangeshkar & Asha Bhosle also chose music as their careers. Although she was born at Indore, Lata was brought up in Maharashtra. When she was five years old, Lata started working as a child-artist in several of her fathers performances.