Ajeeb daastaan hai yeh
Kahan shuru kahan khatam
Yeh manzile hai kaunsi
Na voh samajh sake na hum
Ajeeb daastaan hai yeh
Kahan shuru kahan khatam
Yeh manzile hai kaunsi
Na voh samajh sake na hum
Yeh roshni ke saath kyoon
Dhuaan utha chiraag se
Yeh roshni ke saath kyoon
Dhuaan utha chiraag se
Yeh khwaab dekhti hoon main
Ke jag padi hoon khwaab se
Ajeeb daastaan hai yeh
Kahan shuru kahan khatam
Yeh manzile hai kaunsi
Na voh samajh sake na hum
Mubaarakein tumhe ke tum
Kisi ke noor ho gaye
Mubaarakein tumhe ke tum
Kisi ke noor ho gaye
Kisi ke itne paas ho
Ke sab se door ho gaye
Ajeeb daastaan hai yeh
Kahan shuru kahan khatam
Yeh manzile hai kaunsi
Na voh samajh sake na hum
Kisi ka pyaar leke tum
Naya jahan basaaoge
Kisi ka pyaar leke tum
Naya jahan basaaoge
Yeh shaam jab bhi aayegi
Tum humko yaad aaoge
Ajeeb daastaan hai yeh
Kahan shuru kahan khatam
Yeh manzile hai kaunsi
Na voh samajh sake na hum
About Lata Mangeshkar
In 1929, Lata Mangeshkar was born in Indore and quickly became one of Bollywood’s most popular playback singers. Over the past 50 years, she has sung for actresses ranging from Nargis to Preity Zinta, as well as recorded albums of all kinds (ghazals, pop, etc.).
Between 948 and 1987, the Guinness Book of World Records listed her as the most-recorded artist in the world with 30,000 solo, duet, and chorus-backed songs recorded in 20 Indian languages. The number may have reached 40,000 today!
Her father Dinanath Mangeshkar was a reputed classical singer and owner of a theater company. She studied singing with renowned singers Aman Ali Khan Sahib and Amanat Khan since she was five years old. In her early years, she displayed a God-given musical gift and was able to master vocal exercises for the first time.
Lata’ s Career
Her entry into Bollywood came at the wrong time – around the 1940s, when nasal bass singers like Noor Jehan and Shamshad Begum were in vogue. Due to her thin voice and high pitch, she was rejected from many projects. The circumstances of her entry into the industry were no less inauspicious – after her father passed away in 1942, she was forced to earn income to support her family, and to pay for her economic hardships, she acted in eight Hindi and Marathi films between 1942 and 1948. Playback singing was her debut in Kiti Hasaal (1942), but the song was cut!
The film Majboor (1948) with Ghulam Haider provided her with her big break in 1948, and she released four films in 1949: Mahal (1949), Dulari (1949), Barsaat (1949), and Andaz (1949); all four of these films became runaway successes with their songs reaching levels previously unimaginable. With her unusually high-pitched singing, she overturned the trend of heavily nasal voices of the day, completely changing the face of playback singing within a year. Geeta Dutt and Shamshad Begum were the only low-pitched singers who survived her treble onslaught to some extent.
Although she initially sounded like Noor Jehan, she soon developed her own distinctive style. They were the queens of Indian playback singing from the late 1950s until the 1990s, along with Asha Bhosle. With her voice, composers could now stretch their creative experiments to their limits because she had a special versatility. Despite the fact that all her songs were immediate hits under any composer, it was C. Ramchandra and Madan Mohan who gave her voice a challenge like no other.
She went from strength to strength in the 1960s and 1970s, despite accusations that she monopolized the field. In the 1980s, however, she reduced her workload to focus on her shows abroad. Despite her sudden resurgence in popularity, Lata sings rarely today, but her legendary voice can still be heard in some of Hindi Cinema’s biggest films, such as Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Dil to Pagal Hai (1997), and Veer Zaara (2004).
Lata Mangeshkar’s timeless voice cannot be replaced by any female playback singer in any generation. In her own right, she was an icon beyond all icons…
