Nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Humse Nazar To Milao" from Ikraar (1980).Nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Mangta Hai To Aaja" from Inkaar (1977).Nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Main to Aarti" from Jai Santoshi Maa (1975).BFJA Awards for Best Female Playback Singer for Jai Santoshi Maa (1975).She had also produced musical drama Phoolwanti for Doordarshan.
She is known for her famous song "Mungda" and songs for the Marathi movie Pinjara. She sang the same songs for that movie's remake in 2006. She was nominated for the Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer award for her song "Main to Aarti" in that film. She came into the spotlight as a playback singer after singing some devotional songs for the low-budget movie Jai Santoshi Maa (1975), which became an all-time blockbuster. She is the youngest sister among Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle and Meena Khadikar, and elder to her music-director brother Hridaynath Mangeshkar. Itna bada set lagaya hai, bada hero, badi heroine aur aap is gaane se kamane wale hain, toh bura toh lagega na.She is the second youngest child of Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar and Shevanti (Shudhamati). Nowhere are you thanking me, neither you thanking Helenji. so much so that the fire inside me has died.īura toh lagta hai na ki hamari limelight aapne share kar li. I have been taking it so much since many years. Yes, creatives of good music are suffering since a long time. Here is what was our conversation on the Total Dhamaal Mungda number with Rajesh Roshan.ĭid you know that Mungda was being recreated for Total Dhamaal? I totally stand by what I told few days back in my detailed analysis (interview) of the song." We would have discussed aaram se and then I could have told them my take on the various aspects of their recreation.
What they should have ideally done is, met me. If somebody calls you for blessings on his work, are you going to start dissecting his work? No, na? That's exactly what happened with me. He and called me saying that they want my blessings. We had spoken to Rajesh Roshan a few days back and before we go ahead with what he had said, we felt it would be only appropriate that we call him to check what's the current status. This morning, we woke up to the news in a tabloid that Rajesh Roshan (music composer of Inkaar which had the original Mungda song picturised on Helen) had given a clean chit to the Total Dhamaal Mungda song picturised on Sonakshi Sinha and told the composers Gourov Dasgupta and Roshin Baluchat that they have done a good job, Earlier, Roshan had been quoted saying that he wasn't inclined towards the recreated number.