Padmavibhushan for Asha Bhonsle!
The singing Diva finally has been chosen to be bestowed with Padmavibhushan award for this year along with Justice (Dr.) A.S Anand, PN Dhar, foreign minister Pranab Mukherjee (all three for public affairs), Dr E Sreedharan, and Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri for science and engineering, Late Mr Edmund Hillary (Posthumous), Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, Viswanathan Anand (all three for sports), Lakshmi Narayan Mittal, N R Narayana Murthy, PRS Oberoi, Ratan Naval Tata (all four for trade and industry), who will also receive the Padmavibhushan award. She is among the 119 recepients of the prestigious national honors.
She has been reigning for over 60 years now. She has bagged many prestigious awards, including the National Award and the Dada Saheb Phalke Award. From Madhubala to Helen to reigning super heroines like Kareena Kapoor and Urmila Martondkar, Asha Bhonsle’s evergreen voice bound them all.
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February 4th, 2008 at 6:16 am
Earlier in 2007 I wrote to Sonia Gandhi and the Indian Government to consider Asha Bhosle for the prestigious Bharat Ratna. It seems to me that they decided that there can be only one Bharat Ratna ( lata ) and honoured Asha Tai with Padma Vibhusan. I am glad for Asha Didi. She has always kept a step forward inspite of the new singers and always keeps reinventing and is bust every year with her live concerts.
February 4th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Good news for all Asha Bhosle fans. A live show of Asha Bhosle is organizaed on Feb 9, 2008. More information and tickets available at aapkiasha.com or ticketmirchi.com
February 25th, 2008 at 2:40 am
Nice that Asha ji got Padmavibhushan, but Mohammed Rafi Saheb deserves a Bharat Ratna much earlier.
March 8th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Congratulations Ashaji for winning the Padma Vibhushan! However the belated honour is much too insignificant for an artiste of your larger than life stature.You deserve nothing less than the Bharat Ratna,being the most recorded singer in the history of world music with an awesome tally of over 12,000 songs.Interesting to note over here that a decade or so ago the name of the fraudlent claimant Lata Mangeshkar was expunged by the Guiness Book Of Records authorities on the shocking revealation that the media touted saintly lady had a meagre and miserable 3,000 and not the fabricated 30,000 song output to her credit at the time of filing of the claim.The above truth was widely known within Bollywood music circles and bewildered serious radio listeners but who was to say that the Empress wore no clothes? Certainly not HMV where all the top executives owed their jobs to this “gracious Lady” but with the publication of Harminder Singh’s scholarly Encyclopedia Of Film Songs the cat was finally out of th bag and it so transpired that for four decades straight it was you Ashaji who should have been the rightful recepient of the international name and fame shamelessly stolen by your sister.What many in India do not know is that you refused to succumb to the pressure of signing papers which would have gained you an instantaneous entry into the Guiness Book in a bid to save your internationally disgraced sister from further shame and infamy.Looks like the Indian junta and the Fourth Estate in particular have been touting the wrong sister as the “Great Lady” for all these decades!but then as the wise would aptly put it-SACCHE KA BOL BALA AUR JHOOTE KA MOONH KALA!!!!
Darius K
March 10th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Ref my comments about the great Guinness Book Fraud which “awaited moderation” all I can say is that it is high time journalists in particular show some integrity and refrain from Lata boot licking which they have spinelessly excelled at for four decades or more.My e-mail did not question Ms Mangeshkar’s talent.All it exposed was the shameless level to which a national icon could stoop in a bid to propogate her name and deprive her sister of her rightful place in the book.The anger and outrage should be rightlydirected towards the saintly lady and her den of cohorts such as Raju Bharatan and the entire HMV cadre- the originators of this low down and shameful deed and not towards some one who merely has the moral courage and fearless gumption to speak the truth.all Ican say to all of you LOTA LUNATICS is that:SACH BOLNE SE PEHLE SACH SUNNE KI SALAHIYAT RAKHIYEE!!
Darius kakalia