Pradeep Singh

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday paid tributes to the iconic singer Lata Mangeshkar on her birth anniversary. In a fitting tribute to India's most loved singer, PM Modi said that a chowk in Ayodhya will be named after her.

"Remembering Lata Didi on her birth anniversary. There is so much that I recall the innumerable interactions in which she would shower so much affection. I am glad that today, a Chowk in Ayodhya will be named after her. It is a fitting tribute to one of the greatest Indian icons," the PM tweeted.

 

 

Born in 1929, Mangeshkar ruled the playback singing for decades. India's Melody Queen had the distinction of being conferred with the highest civilian honours of India and France.

Mangeshkar was the recipient of three National Film Awards, seven Filmfare awards, and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1989. She was conferred the Bharat Ratna in 2001, and the French awarded her the Officer of the Legion of Honour.

She passed away at the Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai, where she had been admitted because of Covid-related complications on January 11, 2022.

Lata Mangeshkar lent her voice to an endless succession of chart-topping numbers in Hindi cinema, from 'Allah Tero Naam' and 'Rangeela Re' to the 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram' title track, to 'Lukka Chuppi' in 'Rang De Basanti', apart from songs in Marathi (she also composed the music for several Marathi films in her 'Anandghan' avatar), Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Sinhala.

In 1974, the Guinness Book of Records listed Lata Mangeshkar as the most recorded artiste in human history, stating that she had recorded "not less than 25,000 solo, duet and chorus backed songs in 20 Indian languages" between 1948 and 1974.

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