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1/"Do I miss my contemporaries from the music world? Of course I do. My colleagues like Mohd Rafi saab, Kishoreda (Kishore Kumar), Mukesh bhaiya, & Mannada (Manna Dey) were a constant part of my life. Relationships were not just about work..."
1/"Do I miss my contemporaries from the music world? Of course I do. My colleagues like Mohd Rafi saab, Kishoreda (Kishore Kumar), Mukesh bhaiya, & Mannada (Manna Dey) were a constant part of my life. Relationships were not just about work..."
2/ "Composers and poets like Madan bhaiya (Madan Mohan), Narendra Sharma, whom I called Daddy, Chitragupta saab, and Majrooh Sultanpuri saab used to come home regularly. And I’d visit them. We were what is called family friends", she shared in her final interview to First Post.
3/ Asked who her favourite composers were, she laughed as she said,
"If I forget any names, I am in trouble. But I really enjoyed singing for Shankar-Jaikishan, Salil Choudhary, SD Burman, RD Burman, Laxmikant-Pyarelal. I mention these because I did more work with them..."
"If I forget any names, I am in trouble. But I really enjoyed singing for Shankar-Jaikishan, Salil Choudhary, SD Burman, RD Burman, Laxmikant-Pyarelal. I mention these because I did more work with them..."
4/ "..The others were equally important. I am grateful to every composer and lyricist who gave me their songs to sing. I mean this from the bottom of my heart. If Raja Mehdi Ali Khan had not written 'Lag Ja Gale,' & Madan Mohan had not composed the tune, what would I have sung?"
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