‘If I had come from outside…’ Asha Bhosle’s pain spills out, big statement on comparison with Lata Mangeshkar

Tezzbuzz Desk – April 12 became a very emotional day for the Indian music world, when the musical magician Asha Bhosle said goodbye to this world. With his death, a golden era of music came to a halt. There are fans of his voice not only in the country but all over the world, who still feel it in his songs.

In her long career, Asha Bhosle spread the magic of her voice in thousands of songs. But despite this brilliant journey, she was often compared with her elder sister Lata Mangeshkar. This comparison became a topic of discussion many times and Asha Bhosle herself had openly expressed her views on this.

“Who is high, who is low, why this comparison?”

In an old interview, Asha Bhosle had given her frank opinion on this comparison. She had said that if she had come from some other place and was not Lata Mangeshkar’s sister, perhaps people would not have made such comparisons.

He believed that because he belonged to the same family and had a younger sister, he was always considered “younger”. He had said, it has become a kind of tradition that the younger sister is always underestimated, and he had accepted this thinking with time.

Changed style to create identity

Asha Bhosle saw many ups and downs in her career, but she did not give up. There came a time when her voice was mistaken for Lata Mangeshkar’s voice in a production house.

This incident forced him to think that if his identity did not become distinct, it would be difficult for him to get work. After this, she changed herself, adopted western music, did new experiments and gradually made her place among the most versatile singers of the industry.

separate identity created through struggle

While Lata Mangeshkar was called the “nightingale of tunes”, Asha Bhosle achieved a different position by adapting herself to all kinds of songs. Be it Ghazal, Pop or Cabaret, he created his own identity in every genre.