LATAJI KI BAPPI KE LIYE BHAVISHYAWAANI AUR AASHIRWAAD SAHI NIKLE.. BY ALI PETER JOHN

Words are as powerful as nothing else in the world and when they are uttered by someone as blessed and precious as Lata Mangeshkar , they become the ultimate truth written on holy rock -  Ali Peter John

Some sixty eight years ago , Lata was a very close friend of Ataresh Lahiri and Bansunri Lahiri a couple who lived for music . The Lahiri's had a son who they named Alokesh and he showed signs of being a musical genius even while he was a baby lying in his cradle or on the floor .

He was only three years old when he started playing the tabla and it was at this time that Lata Mangeshkar predicted that the child Alokesh would grow up to be a great musician and even a composer for Hindi films ...

By the time Alokesh was ten , he could play almost every instrument and when he was nineteen , he had the confidence to ask the queen of melody , Lataji to sing under his baton for his first ever film which was in Bengali and called ,"Daadu' .

All the songs of the film grew popular and so did Alokesh . He scored the music for some other Bengali films and his father realised that his son had the potential to make it as a composer in Hindi films .

And what Lata Mangeshkar and the father of Alokesh had predicted kept coming true one after the other and Alokesh became Bapi and from Bapi , he became Bappi and Disco King , Gold King ,Dance King and Disco Emperor .

The best thing was that even as critics called him the voice of noise and he discovered new trends of music and new voices to go with them , he never dared to take the liberty of making Lataji's voice sound cheap or even remotely vulgar at any time . He called Lataji ' Devi' and treated her like a goddess till the very end ...

God or destiny must have had some strange plan for both Lata and Bappi . Lata was ninety two and Bappi was sixty nine , but they both went away into some other world within a matter of twelve days

DONO KA SABSE KHOOBSURAT GEET THA 'AAO TUME CHAND PE LE JAAYE" AB KOUN KISSE CHAND PAR LE GAYS YE WAHI JAANTE HAI AUR HUM DEKHTE REHETE HAI