The best of Lata Mangeshkar
The Hindu
Rewinding to some of the finest songs by Lata Mangeshkar, who passed away on Sunday at the age of 92
There may not be a moment when somebody, somewhere, is not listening to a song sung by Lata Mangeshkar. It has been so for the last seven decades or so.
No singer has captured the imagination of an entire nation like she did.
Music fans may be divided when it comes to choosing their favourite male singers – some might swear by Mohammed Rafi, others by Kishore Kumar, and some others by K.J. Yesudas or S.P. Balasubrahmanyam– but the majority of them may pick Lata as the female voice they most want to listen to. Not without reason.

A vacuum cleaner haunted by a ghost is the kind of one-liner which can draw in a festival audience looking for a little light-hearted fun to fill the time slots available between the “heavier” films which require much closer attention. A useful ghost, the debut feature of Thai filmmaker Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke being screened in the world cinema category at the 30th International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), even appears so in the initial hour. Until, the film becomes something more, with strong undercurrents of Thailand’s contemporary political history.












