sangeet ka safa

Lata Mangeshkar entertain Mumbai!
May 3, 2010, 12.00am IST




To hear Lata Mangeshkar singing live is a treat in itself. But to hear her singing the famous Maharashtra geet and that too on the golden jubilee of the state, is beyond words.

The historical moment was witnessed by thousands of people who attended this function organised by Bal Thackeray and son Uddhav Thackeray on the occasion of Maharashtra Day on Saturday.

The song was the same one she had sung 50 years ago in the presence of then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Apart from the grand finale that saw the nightingale regale everyone with her voice, the evening also saw singers like Usha Mangeshkar, Pandit Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Sadhana Sargam, Abhijeet Sawant, Shankar Mahadevan, Suresh Wadkar, Swapnil Bandodkar and Kunal Ganjawala perform on stage. Uddhav’s wife Rashmi and sons Tejas and Aditya Thackeray too were present at the occasion. Noted historian Babasaheb Purandhare and Lata were felicitated by the Thackeray parivaar in the course of the function.

Other guests who attended the grand evening were Dilip Vengsarkar, Manohar Joshi, Shubha Raul, Milind Gunaji, Mahesh Manjrekar, Tushar Dalvi and Vinay Apte.


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