Thread by @SDesh01

Lata Mangeshkar, the legendary Indian singer & composer, passed away a year ago on Feb 6, marking her first death anniversary today!! She was widely regarded as one of the greatest voices in the Indian music industry, and was known as the Nightingale of India.
#LataMangeshkar

In her over-seven-decade long career, Mangeshkar sung over 30,000 songs in several Indian languages.
A lady who lost her guru, her father at the age of 14 & had to earn for her family by acting in the films which she hated.

A lady who did not marry because she loved her own family deeply.
A lady who was always concerned about her Mother's well being because Asha Bhosle eloped with a elderly man causing their mother shock and prolonged heart ailment.

A lady who also worried about her brother Hridaynath becuase he was frail, sickly and had polio like condition in his leg.
A lady who was ridiculed for her pronounciation of Urdu. Whose voice was called too thin to suit any actresses of that generation.

When you are in such scrutiny in your personal and professional life, do you think you will selflessly help other people or would you try to gather your own self first?
Lata became a legend because of her extraordinary singing skills … let's see who was her competition ..

Vani Jairam, Hem Lata, Suman Kalyanpur… did these ladies bother to create their own identity? What was so distinct about their talent to remember them by? They tried to sing just like Lata Mangeshkar. Staying in the shadow of Lata will automatically make you an inferior talent!!

Only Asha Bhosle was different as she created her own identity. As for Asha, Lata didn’t speak to her cause of Asha Bhosle's decisions about her personal life. It wasn’t a rivalry but plainly a family matter.
Still Lata Mangeshkar is the reason why royalty to musicians started,

names of singers started getting printed on records, Filmfare awards for lyricists and singers began.If you still think she has no contribution to increase the confidence of singers? Just imagine how much winning a Filmfare award would mean to a playback singer.

It increases their status and compensation tenfold, even right now.
Last accusation was she threatened to not work with musicians who hired new singers.
How silly and kiddish this accusation is. Hiring a singer was a decision between a producer, film director and music director.

Sometimes actresses also used to make contract with producers asking only Lata to sing their songs. Actresses like Sadhna, Nutan, Saira Banu, Waheeda Rahman. So imagine the pool of self made people from great production houses, actors, film makers and legendary music directors

threatened by a single lady to not hire new talent? Do you really think they would be so spineless?? Or hypnotised?? Playing Politics, if so for whose benefit?
Yes these were the very reasons people used to give to explain why Lata reigns!! Yes these people were under her spell

But it was not just these people, but it was the whole nation
Why?? Because Lata was simply the best!!!

Even afer all this explanation, the skeptics among you would still doubt the greatest Indian musical figure of all times only to demean what Lata Mangeshkar really stands for…Excellence, Hard Work and Dignity!!!❤️❤️