Lata Mangeshkar - Rough Guide to Bollywood Legends: Lata Mangeshkar

It would be ridiculous to even try to survey the work of India's Lata Mangeshkar in a single disc, for this preeminent voice of Indian pop music has recorded thousands of songs in a career that stretches back into the early 1940s, when she began as a playback singer in Bollywood. Bollywood is the Bombay-based center of the Hindi-language film industry, and the number of movies it releases probably outnumbers the stars in the heavens, and its actors and actresses manage to sing a song, or two or three, in every one of them. Read More