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The popular song ‘Lara Lappa Lara Lappa Lai Rakhda’ from the film “Ek Thi Ladki” (1949) may have worked wonders for the then little known actor Meena Shourie, but many fans called it a “trivial” song, that’s not all. Lata Mangeshkar’s standard. Mangeshkar, 92, died on Sunday at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital. The singer recalled her anger after the release of the song in her book ‘Lata Mangeshkar in Her Own Voice’.
“The hook line of the song ‘Lara Lappa Lara Lappa Lai Rakhda’ is, in fact, Punjabi. The film situation was explained to me in great detail: This will happen and it will happen. I recorded the song and went home. Few people heard it And was angry and annoyed with me.’Why did you sing this frivolous song? You shouldn’t sing such a song.’ Mangeshkar said in the book.
The anger against Mangeshkar for singing the song, according to his free-wheeling conversation with London-based writer Nasreen Munni Kabir, continued even after the film’s release and the song became the most popular song from Shourie starrer ‘Ek Thi Ladki’. Motilal.
Written by Aziz Kashmiri and composed by Vinod, this peppy song, with its Punjabi vocals, was the trendsetter for many popular songs of the later years. According to Mangeshkar, she faced a similar reaction from music directors for her song ‘Gor Gore, O Banke Chhore’ – another big hit from the late singer from “Samadhi” (1950).
“You will be amazed to hear that when I sang it at a function, many music directors came up to me and said: ‘What has happened to the standard of your songs? You are singing ‘Gor gore o banke chhore’ on stage?’ Those songs were known as ‘bad’ songs. Now they are very bad.”
But these incidents of people getting angry or upset over Mangeshkar’s selection of songs were rare, as he had many admirers, including the much respected Hindustani classical singer Bade Ghulam Ali Khan.
As shared in the book by Mangeshkar himself, Bade Ghulam Ali Khan once commented while listening to her song: “Kambakkht, kabhi besuri hi nahi hoti” (the blessed girl never sings out of tune).
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“Yes. I once read an interview of Pandit Jasraj – in which he said that he was with Bade Ghulam Ali Khan Sahib in the 1950s and Ek Din Kuch Door Se Mera Song ‘Yeh Zindagi Usi Ki Jo Kisi Ka Ho Gaya’ maybe. Heard. Khan sahib asked everyone to keep quiet so that he could hear it. Then he said affectionately: ‘Kambakht, kabhi besuri hi nahi hoti’ (The blessed girl never sings out of tune) ,” she recalled in the book.
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