Singer Vaishali Samant who has sung many chartbusters in Marathi and Hindi (A R Rahman's 'Chalka Chalka Re' in Saathiya and 'Taal Se Taal Mila' in Taal) is all set to compose music for a Marathi film based on the life of the 19th century social reformer Mahatma Jyotirao Phule. Vaishali has convinced the reclusive Nightingale Lata Mangeshkar to record a song in Marathi for the film. The recording is to be held on Wednesday. This would be a rare song of Lataji tuned by a lady composer. Says the Nightingale, "At the very beginning of my singing career, I recorded a song with Saraswati Devi who was the first music director of Hindi cinema. Then for a very long time, I worked only with male music directors because there were hardly any women doing music direction. Then after a very long time came Usha Khanna. I sang several songs...
- 2/1/2014
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
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