Digital Desk: Lata Mangeshkar has evolved as a personality known from her name alone. She has given some of the most celebrated melodies to the music industry. On a sad note, on Sunday, Lata Ji passed away at 92 due to multiple organ failures in Mumbai's Breach Candy hospital.
India has lost a lady with 'Ma Saraswati' in her voice, a legend in her own. The entire nation clots into the gloomy scene after this tragic news of Lata Ji's demise on February 6, 2022. With her last breath, an eight-decade old music tradition, an era came to an end.
Remembering her attributes to the nation, n the book "Lata Mangeshkar in Her Own Voice", the music icon said she was laid on beds with severe health issues for more than three months back in the 60s.
The legendary singer in the book revealed that she felt severely ill for months. She was lying on her bed throughout those days and could not walk out.
"In 1962, I fell severly sick for approximately three months. One day, I woke up feeling very uncomfortable in my belly. And then I began hurling up - it was awful, the vomit was a greenish colour. The physician arrived and even got an x-ray machine home because I could not move. He x-rayed my stomach and expressed I was being slowly poisoned," Mangeshkar conveyed in the book.
During a casual conversation with the London-based writer Nasreen Munni Kabir, Lata Mangeshkar had remembered how she felt so helpless that she felt she would never be capable of singing again.
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When Lata Ji came to know about the strange news that she had been slowly poisoned, her sister Usha straight away went into the kitchen and informed all that from that moment on; she would do the cooking food for Lata Ji and not any of the servants.
When the news was revealed, a servant from the group skipped the work without informing anyone and, not taking any pay, informed Lata Ji during the discussion.
"So we thought someone had sowed him there. We didn't know who it was. I was bed-ridden for three months and was so weak," she stated, counting that they never got to understand regarding the individual behind it.
Remembering those hard moments, Mangeshkar, in the book published by Niyogi Books, conveyed how prominent lyricist Majrooh Sultanpuri held her company throughout those three months of suffering.
"He (Mahrooh) ate whatever I ate and repeated verses and read me tales. We chatted and giggled together. I simply appreciated his company," she sounded.
After her recovery from the long three months of sickness, she sang "Kahin Deep Jale Kahin Dil" from Bees Saal Baad, composed by Hemant Kumar.
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