Happy birthday, Lata Mangeshkar: Here's the bouquet of her great Bollywood playlist
On her 85th birthday we revist the best Hindi film songs of all time selected by Lata Mangeshkar (and Asha Bhosle). The legends list their favourites out of the thousands of numbers they've sung. Listen in on a century of great film music with us!
The best Hindi film songs of all time? We attempted the impossible by asking legends Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle to list their favourites out of the thousands of numbers they've sung. Then, we got 15 music stalwarts to pick the top 10 Bollywood songs of the last 100 years. Listen in on a century of great film music with us. We dare you to do it without humming...
Music and Bollywood are inseparable - lovers entwined in mad passion. There is no situation, no occasion, no emotion for which a Hindi film song hasn't been created. From sad, soulful numbers to ballads with ornate Urdu couplets; from high-brow poetry to the new trend of using English words as 'hook lines'; Bollywood music has changed tremendously over 100 years.
Brunch celebrates this unique treasure, this unparalleled legacy, by attempting to compile the best songs of all time. So we asked two playback legends - Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle - to share their favourites from the songs they have sung. And we got other industry hotshots to choose what they deem Bollywood's best. As the tunes poured in, some songs kept cropping up in list after list. They made it to our bumper compendium of classics - tunes that shine despite the passage of time. This one goes out to every music lover, especially you!
