Legendary singer Asha Bhosle – of the pre-eminent Mangeshkar clan – was conferred the coveted ‘Maharashtra Bhushan – 2021’ Award at a swank function near the Gateway of India, on Friday evening. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and other dignitaries, including Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar, were present and hailed the 89-year-old Asha Bhosle’s singing career which has completed 80 years.
“Asha-tai is the ‘pride of Maharashtra’… The Mangeshkar family has been ruling the minds of the fans for over eight decades and served the field of arts through their singing and music,” said Shinde.
The Award, instituted by the erstwhile Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party regime (1995-1999), carried a cash component of Rs 25-lakh, a shawl, a memento, and certificate. The event saw a documentary on the life and times of Bhosle screened which left the audiences enthralled.
Shinde said that in her long music career, Bhosle had sung...
“Asha-tai is the ‘pride of Maharashtra’… The Mangeshkar family has been ruling the minds of the fans for over eight decades and served the field of arts through their singing and music,” said Shinde.
The Award, instituted by the erstwhile Shiv Sena-Bharatiya Janata Party regime (1995-1999), carried a cash component of Rs 25-lakh, a shawl, a memento, and certificate. The event saw a documentary on the life and times of Bhosle screened which left the audiences enthralled.
Shinde said that in her long music career, Bhosle had sung...
- 3/25/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Mumbai, Sep 28 (Ians) In a fitting tribute, the ‘Bharat Ratna Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar International Music College & Museum’ was inaugurated at the Kalina Campus of the University of Mumbai, here on Wednesday — on the 93rd birth anniversary of the melody queen who passed away on February 6, officials said.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis did the honours in the presence of a large number of ministers, political leaders and music personalities like Usha Mangeshkar, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Meena Khadilkar, Adinath Mangeshkar, Ashok Patki, Sonu Nigam, Anup Jalota, Pankaj Udas, Mayuresh Pai, Taufiq Qureshi, Lalit Pandit, and others.
With this, the University will offer the first six certificate courses of one-year each in Hindustani classical music, Indian flute, tabla, sitar, harmonium/keyboard and sound engineering will be launched with an initial intake of 150 students.
In August this year, the Maharashtra government had handed over a 7,000-square metre plot...
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis did the honours in the presence of a large number of ministers, political leaders and music personalities like Usha Mangeshkar, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Meena Khadilkar, Adinath Mangeshkar, Ashok Patki, Sonu Nigam, Anup Jalota, Pankaj Udas, Mayuresh Pai, Taufiq Qureshi, Lalit Pandit, and others.
With this, the University will offer the first six certificate courses of one-year each in Hindustani classical music, Indian flute, tabla, sitar, harmonium/keyboard and sound engineering will be launched with an initial intake of 150 students.
In August this year, the Maharashtra government had handed over a 7,000-square metre plot...
- 9/28/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
For nearly eight decades, Lata Mangeshkar defined Hindi film music. Diminutive, Indore-born Lata was literally nurtured in music. Her father Dinanath Mangeshkar ran a theatre company and later did did music concerts. So, a two-year-old Lata would sit by her father’s side while he did his daily riyaaz. By the time she was 5, she […]...
- 2/8/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
- GlamSham
DeathA two-day state mourning will be observed on February 6 and 7 in the wake of the demise of the legendary singer.Inputs PTIPTIThe funeral of legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar will be held on an open ground in Mumbai's Shivaji Park, where her body will be kept for the public to pay tributes on the evening of Sunday, February 6, officials of the city civic body said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he will be visiting Mumbai later in the day to pay his last respects to Mangeshkar. The site where the 92-year-old singer's funeral will be performed with full state honours is about 100-metre away from Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray's memorial, on the west side of the Shivaji Park, located in the Dadar area. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (Bmc) Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal told Pti that they have arranged about 25 kg sandalwood for Mangeshkar's cremation along with other necessary things. Around...
- 2/6/2022
- by Haripriya
- The News Minute
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