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Lata Mangeshkar Lata Mangeshkar (   ) (born 28 September 1929) is an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer. She is one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Mangeshkar's career started in 1942 and has spanned over seven decades. She has recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films and has sung songs in over thirty-six regional Indian languages and foreign languages, though primarily in Marathi and Hindi. She is the recipient of three National Film Awards, 12 Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards, four Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards and many more. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was bestowed on her in 1989 by the Government of India. She is also the second vocalist, after M. S. Subbulakshmi, to have ever been awarded the Bharat Ratna in 2001, India's highest civilian honour. She has four siblings—Asha Bhosle, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, Usha Mangeshkar and Meena Mangeshkar—of which she is the eldest.
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Usha Mangeshkar Usha Mangeshkar (Marathi: उषा मंगेशकर , Hindi: उषा मंगेशकर ) is an Indian singer who has recorded many Hindi, Bengali, Marathi, Kannada, Nepali, Bhojpuri and Gujarati songs.
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Varsha Bhosle Varsha Bhosle (Marathi: वर्षा भोसले) (1956 –8 October 2012) was an Indian singer, journalist and writer based in Mumbai. She was the daughter of Indian playback singer, Asha Bhosle.
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Subhamita Banerjee Subhamita Banerjee (Bengali: শুভমিতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় ) is a Bengali singer from Kolkata, India, who specializes in modern songs, Ghazals. She has many Bengali albums to her credit and is one of the well known singers in the Bengali music industry.
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Patita (1953 film) Patita (Hindi: पतिता , A fallen woman) is a 1953 Hindi film produced and directed by Amiya Chakrabarty. The film stars Dev Anand, Usha Kiran, Agha and Lalita Pawar. The films music is by Shankar Jaikishan. The film is especially well known for some very melodious and popular songs that include: "Andhe Jahaan Ke" by Talat Mahmood, "Hain Sab Se Madhur Woh Geet Jinhein Hum Dard Ke Sur Mein Gaate Hain" by Talat Mahmood, "Kisi Ne Apna Bana Ke" by Lata Mangeshkar, "Mitti se Khelte Ho" by Lata Mangeshkar and the duet "Yaad Kiya Dil Ne Kahaan Ho Tum" by Hemant Kumar and Lata Mangeshkar.
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Sudarshan Bhagat Sudarshan Bhagat (born 20 October 1969) is an Indian politician belonging to Bharatiya Janata Party. He is a member of the Indian Parliament, and currently represents Lohardaga (Lok Sabha constituency). He is the Minister of State for Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare in the Narendra Modi government.
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Sandhya Sanjana Sandhya Sanjana (Hindi: संध्या ) is a singer born in Mumbai, India. She is one of the first Indian singers to have experimented with fusing Indian classical vocals with various other western contemporary styles. Her career began at a young age and she has appeared on over 30 albums, covering various genres.
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Satya Narayan Gourisaria Satya Narayan Gourisaria is an Indian born British company secretary, gandhian and a former secretary of the India League, an Indian independence movement organization founded by V. K. Krishna Menon. He was born on 7 May 1929 at Dhanbad, in the Indian state of Bihar but shifted to East Bengal, then in erstwhile East Pakistan to return to India in 1948, a year after the Indian independence. He did his college studies at Scottish Church College, Kolkata and migrated to United Kingdom in the 1950s to stay there for 61 years. A former company secretary at Douglas Fraser and Sons (London) Limited, Gourisaria has also held the directorship of the now defunct Ashoka Publications. During his stay in London, he is known to have assisted in cultural exchanges by hiring cinemas to show Indian films and bringing Indian film personalities to London for shows, a show by Lata Mangeshkar at the Royal Albert Hall in 1974 being a notable one. He returned to India in 2013. He was honored by the Government of India, in 2000, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.
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Krishna Chattopadhyay Krishna Chattopadhyay (1935-23 May 2009) was an Indian singer, who along with her contemporary Manju Gupta, was the leading exponent of the songs composed by Atulprasad Sen, Dwijendralal Ray and Rajanikanta Sen. She also sang compositions by Surasagar Himangshu Datta.
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Mr. Lambu Mr. Lambu is a Hindi language Bollywood movie made in 1956. The plot revolves around the once popular genre of Rakhi relations, a bond between brother and sister. It stars Suraiya, one of the most popular actresses and singers of the Indian subcontinent of her generation. In the film, Lata Mangeshkar, one of the most respected playback singers in India, sings a solo composed by the award-winning director of cinematic music, Indian composer O. P. Nayyar.
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Rahul Vaidya Rahul Vaidya (Marathi: राहुल वैद्य ; born 23 September 1987 in Nagpur, India) is an Indian singer.
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Vasant Dev Vasant Deo(1929-25 Jan.1996) is an Indian writer, lyricist and screenwriter and a Hindi academic at Parle College in Mumbai. He worked in Hindi parallel cinema through the 1980s, working with directors like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani and Mahesh Bhatt. He is best known for "Saanjh Dhale Gagan Tale" sung by Suresh Wadkar, and "Mann Kyun Behka", a Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle duet in "Utsav" (1984) directed by Girish Karnad. He wrote plays and poetry in Marathi, and Marathi to Hindi translator.
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Meena Rana Mina Rana (Devanagari: मीना राणा) is a famous Uttarakhandi singer. She has sung many Garhwali and Kumaoni music albums. She is considered to be one of the best female singers of Uttarakhand and even said to be the "Lata Mangeshkar" of Uttarakhand.
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Rahi Chakraborty Rahi Chakraborty (Hindi: राही चक्रवर्ती ) is an Indian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and music producer.
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Mangesh Kudalkar Mangesh Kudalkar (Marathi: मंगेश कुडाळकर ) is a Shiv Sena politician from Mumbai, Maharashtra. He is a member of the 13th Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. He represents Kurla Vidhan Sabha constituency of Mumbai, Maharashtra, India as a member of Shiv Sena.
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Bharatiya Mahila Bank Bharatiya Mahila Bank (BMB) was an Indian financial services banking company based in Mumbai, India. Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh inaugurated the system on 19 November 2013 on the occasion of the 96th birth anniversary of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Although initially reported as a bank exclusively for women, the bank allows deposits to flow from everyone, but lending will be predominantly for women. India is the third country in the world to have a bank especially for women, after Pakistan and Tanzania. The bank was merged with State Bank of India on 31 March 2017.
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Annasaheb Kirloskar Balwant Pandurang Kirloskar (Devanagari: बळवंत पांडुरंग किर्लोस्कर) (1843 - 1885), popularly known as Annasaheb Kirloskar, was a Marathi playwright from Maharashtra, India.
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Phoolwanti (TV series) Phoolwanti is an Indian musical drama TV series broadcast on Doordarshan in 1992, starring Arun Govil, Archana Joglekar and Savita Prabhune. The show was produced by Usha Mangeshkar, with music by Hridayanath Mangeshkar and playback singing by Lata Mangeshkar. The show was based on a story by writer Babasaheb Purandare, with screenplay, dialogues and lyrics by Vasant Deo.
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Anurag Kejriwal Anurag Kejriwal is an Indian politician, and the former president of the Delhi branch of India's Lok Satta Party.
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Sunil Ganguly Sunil Ganguly (Bengali: সুনীল গাঙ্গুলি ; 1 January 1938 – 12 June 1999) was an Indian instrumentalist from the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) who played the Hawaiian electric guitar. He produced many 78 RPM, SP, EP, Super-7, LP discs, audio cassettes and CDs from HMV, Concord Records and Sagarika including classical-based songs like "Yaad piya ki aaye". He made records of Indian Hindi film songs, classical based songs, and Bengali songs, and popularised the Hawaiian guitar in India, with his unique style and his accurate renditions enabled by his background in classical music. His renditions often had subtle twists and turns that made it even more melodious than the original song. At his peak, there used to be two LPs released during the Pujas every year by HMV, one containing songs by Lata Mangeshkar, and the other having instrumentals by Sunil Ganguly. The film hits he recorded were instant hits with the youth. Sunil Ganguly did many public performances all over India, including Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Lucknow, Patna, Guwahati etc, including programs in classical music. He did one-man whole night shows in Mumbai, played in reputed College fests like the IITs, RECs. Some of the best musicians of the era, like Sri Y S Mulki, Sri Dilip Roy, Sri Samir Khasnabis, Sri Swapan Sen, Sri Manohari Singh accompanied him on his recordings and performances. He was a regular performer at Doordarshan programs (TV) in Kolkata and Mumbai, AIR (All India Radio), Radio Ceylon (Sri Lanka). His radio programs (like Saaz aur Awaz on Radio Ceylon) were popular and were listened to by many all over India, and this program continues to this date. He inspired an entire young generation to play Indian music on the Hawaiian guitar. He had many number of successful students, who are continuing his style of playing songs and in turn are coaching students in India and abroad.
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Hemanta Mukherjee Hemanta Mukherjee ((16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989); often credited as Hemant Kumar outside Bengal) was an Indian playback singer, music director and film producer, who sang in Bengali, Hindi and other Indian languages. He is also the greatest artist of Rabindra Sangeet. He won two National awards for the category best male playback singer. He is often credited as one of the greatest Indian singers of all time for his unparalleled manly voice.
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Surabhi (TV series) Surabhi (English: "Fragrance") is an Indian cultural magazine show hosted by Renuka Shahane and Siddharth Kak, which ran from 1990 to 2001 (with a year’s break in 1991), one of the longest running on national television, which used to fetch millions of postcards from viewers, weekly. It was telecast on Doordarshan, the Indian state-run television channel, and later moved to Star Plus on Sunday mornings. "Surabhi" was produced by Kak's Mumbai based production house Cinema Vision India and had Indian culture as its central theme. The show holds the distinction of being India's longest-running cultural series and features in the "Limca Book of Records" for receiving the largest measured audience response ever in the history of Indian television.