reate a rift between us. But let me tell you that they'll never
succeed.
In fact, I'm very proud of the fact that we are complete family of singers. My
brother (Hridyanath Mangeshkar) and my other sisters (Usha and Meena) are also
singers. Where else would you find such a family?
However, there is a general feeling that injustice has been done to you
throughout your career.
Injustice? (Laughs) Lekin us mein bhi mazaa aata hai.
Wouldn't you feel angry about being denied your due?
There was a time when I would feel angry, very angry I would want to explode..
yeh boloon ke woh boloon? There were attempts to set up obstacles in my way. I
wouldn't be given the best songs, only the secondary ones. Yet, I was loved by
the public. I won my share of awards, too, despite everything. If I'd won them
easily, then there would have been no sense of achievement.
Anyway, right to this day the injustice persists. But then out of the blue,
something providential happens to me, something willed by God. Otherwise, why
should A.R.Rahman have given me songs? I must have done something good in life
to deserve them.
How have you managed to preserve a youthful voice?
Everyone asks me - what do you do to keep your voice that way it is? And I say,
nothing, nothing at all. I eat the same food, the same daal chaawal. And I do my
daily riyaaz.
When I have to record a song for a film, I ask for the heroine's name and then
sing, keeping her face and personality in mind. Like I knew for Rangeela, I was
singing for a dubli patlisi ladki.. Urmila Matondkar. And while singing the
numbers, I would ask Rahman, "How is it... alright?" And he would q ..... |
