It is possibly because her Bengali pronunciation and diction was 99.9 percent faultless and that she was a perfectionist.
“Lataji’s Bengali songs continue to be popular. That Mangeshkar’s songs have achieved a kind of immortality among Bengali listeners can be easily gauged when microphones stuck on lamp posts across Kolkata neighbourhoods will buzz with those tunes, yet again this year during October’s Durga Puja. On their part, non-native Bengali speakers like K.L.Saigal, Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhonsle and Mangeshkar returned the favour by their mellifluous rendition of songs in Bengali. Burman, Hemant Kumar (Mukhopadhyay), Manna Dey, among many others, infused a melodious vibrancy and dynamism to the Hindi playback industry. Mangeshkar’s involvement with Bengali music-be it film, modern or Rabindra Sangeet - also comes as a throwback to an era when Bengali singers and composers in Mumbai, like Geeta Dutt, Salil Chowdhury, Kishore Kumar, S.D. Lata Mangeshkar represents that connection in its highest form." There’s been a long tradition of interaction between Bengalis and the Hindi film industry in Mumbai and both have benefitted from the association. “In Bollywood, Bengali artistes continue to be held in high regard. “It is as much Bengal’s honour too," says the National Award-winning sound designer, Biswadeep Chatterjee, who has worked on major Bollywood films, recent ones being Pink and Bajirao Mastani. The decision of the West Bengal government to confer the 87-year-old singer with 2016’s Banga Bibhushan award-constituted in 2011 to honour eminent personalities across various fields, but primarily from among the artistic and creative world-is an acknowledgement of the bond shared between Mangeshkar and her Bengali-speaking listeners, a relationship largely under-reported in the numerous biographies and profiles of Mangeshkar. For Mangeshkar, who has sung in over 30 Indian languages, Bengali comes as a very sweet language, she told PTI on the sidelines of the Kolkata function. While reasonable estimates mention Mangeshkar having recorded a few hundred songs in Bengali, the singer at a function by the Kolkata-based cultural organization Indo-Occidental Symbiosis in 2011 stated that she has sung the most number of songs in Bengali after Hindi. It wasn’t possibly too demanding for the Bharat Ratna recipient to revisit her association with the Bengali language, continuing since her first reported Bengali recorded song in 1952, a version taken from the Marathi film Amar Bhoopali, according to the music label Saregama (then HMV) which released the track. What struck her further was when Mangeshkar, while rehearsing the song, asked Dayamoyee in Bengali, “Bhalo hoyeche toh? (Did it turn out well?)" 80 years old when Mangeshkar recorded the title track at Swarnalata Studio, the native Marathi speaker’s Bengali pronunciation was understandably a little rusty, but she was quick to pick up, being “extremely perceptive," says Dayamoyee. Notice: Undefined index: record_num in /homepages/6/d379406049/htdocs/sangeet-bhuvan/music/songlist.She was returning to Bengali playback singing after 17 years the last time she sang was also for a film for which Bandopadhyay had been the music composer.
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