‘Meri Awaaz Hi..pehchan hai’, The Living Goddess Of Harmony Battles With Odds
By D N Singh
When Lata Didi’s performance in the Royal Albert Hall, London, produced the spellbinding magic, the clapping had never stopped for over five minutes.
Anchoring the live orchestra then, Dilip Kumar had told , that the clapping appeared, as if, the yardsticks for the pinnacle of an illustrious career, but an awestruck Dilip Kumar had described them as “only , the turning of a page”.
A pall of gloom seems looming over the horizon of melody as the queen of music Lata Mangeshkar’s health reportedly not quite stable today. She has been again in ventilator support as the billions of her fans world over pray for her health.
‘ Meri awaaz hi ..pehchan hai’ and nobody can take that away. Lata whose voice breathes life into many, lies quiet in the ICU.
‘In her Goddess Saraswati lives’ are the words of Sanjay Leela Bansari. This day, Basant Panchami, the living Goddess of music is strained by a health problem and battles with the situation.
‘Koi soor to jage, meri dhadkano me, mein apni sargam se roothi hui hoon’ and the legend is fighting hard to regain her ‘Sar gam’.
She has surpassed all the boundaries of critique. The rhythms, vibratos and the blend of realism still can carry any music lover on its wings of melody, to a mesmerizing world of an unparalleled repertoire of harmony.
She had traversed through a path which was not so easy to negotiate. She had recorded her first song “Mata Ek Sapoot Ki Duniya Badal De Tu” for a Marathi film at the age of 13.
‘Didi’, for everybody almost, she has remained the epitome of melody and flawlessness that no one in the film industry has ever come near to.
Today, when the empress of melody lies motionless, the entire nation prays for her recovery.
