You name it and she has it — records and awards, we mean. At the Global Indian Music Awards a few weeks back, 81-year-old Lata Mangeshkar, while receiving the Llifetime Achievement Award, had said, “This does not mean retirement — I’ll continue.”
Within days, she decided to lend her voice for an eight-year-old in Vineet Khetrapal’s directorial debut, Satrangee Parachute.
Music composer of the film Shamir Tandon recollects, “Vineet, lyricist Rajiv Barnwal and I were very clear that Tere hansne se had to be recorded in didi’s voice or else we’d drop it. It took us three months to convince her but when she did agree, we were jubilant.”
In fact, this isn’t the first time that she will be singing on Shamir’s tunes. Be it Kitne ajeeb from Page 3 or Daata sunn le in Jail, she’s worked with him before.
Shamir says, “She was amused when I told her that at 80 plus, she’d be singing for a girl who wasn’t yet eight years. In fact, she even joked around in the studio but we were certain that we wanted the innocence in didi’s voice.”
The song is in montages and comes twice in the film. Shamir explains, “The highlight of the track is when I convinced didi to laugh twice during the recording. She’s got a musical laugh and that’s what evokes a feeling of innocence.”
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