Saturday, January 30, 2010

Marie Claire 20091201 Scan02 Lata and Asha

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Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosale have sung upwards of 50,000 songs between themselves of which only 75 are duets with each other with the last being for Aaina 1993. Enough fodder for the sibling rivalry theorists. On our planet, first leverage is decided then competition is decided. In their time, the leverage was very high with only a handful of singers around. Naturally all sorts of politics would have played out. What is remarkable is that as the elder sister, when Lata was no longer allowed to keep Asha with her at school so she could babysit her, she too stopped attending school.

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