Madhu gets a job as a hairstylist at RK's film set. Everyone convinces RK to bring her back but he doesn't budge on his decision. But suddenly, he tells he'd never loved her it was his plan to entangle her in his love and then destroy her life when he leaves her.ĭevastated, Madhu moves on. RK needs a break and says he wants to marry Madhu properly so they can take their marriage forward. Balraj abducts all but is shot to death by Padmini. The two confess their love RK helps Padmini and Shamsher in getting married. No longer rude to Madhu, RK begins loving her. Shamsher shoots RK Madhu donates her blood to save him. Sikandar's wife Deepali wants her to leave RK but in vain. Eventually, Madhu begins falling for him. Rude and egotistical, he becomes hell-bent on ruining her life. RK asks Madhu to marry him which she accepts.
She slaps RK who puts forward an offer for Shamsher's treatment as he was badly beaten up on RK's set. Mukund breaks off his engagement thinking Madhu has an affair with RK. RK insinuates that Madhu is his girlfriend and humiliates Padmini and Shamsher's relationship, saying they're having a secret affair for last 20 years. Mukund proposes Madhu and they get engaged. She fights a case of hit and run on behalf of Mukund against Bollywood superstar Rishabh Kundra "RK" who gets jailed. The song went on to become one of her first major hits and what followed, as they say, is history.Madhubala "Madhu" Choudhary was born on a film set and works in a parlour her family members are junior artists in the Mumbai film industry.
Then came Aayega Aanewaala, a song in the movie Mahal (1949), composed by music director Khemchand Prakash and picturised on actor Madhubala. Music director Ghulam Haider gave her her first major break with the song Dil Mera Toda, Mujhe Kahin Ka Na Chhora - lyrics by Nazim Panipati - in the movie Majboor (1948), which became her first big breakthrough film hit. "I started playback singing after that," she added. Then in 1947, Master Vinayak passed away and their drama company, Praful Pictures, was shut down. I was attracted to it since childhood," Mangeshkar told NDTV in 2008. I used to hate putting on make up and having to laugh and cry in front of the camera. I acted in films but I never enjoyed it as I was very small.
While acting was the need of the hour, she took up small roles in Marathi films like heroine's sister, hero's sister, she never liked putting on make up and working in front of the camera. In the film, she also sang a bhajan, Maata Tere Charnon Mein. Mangeshkar got the opportunity to play a minor role along with her younger sister Asha Bhosle in Master Vinayak's first Hindi-language movie, Badi Maa” in 1945. When Mangeshkar moved to Mumbai in 1945, she started taking lessons in music. Master Vinayak had offered Mangeshkar a small role in a Marathi movie Pahili Mangalaa-gaur and also made her sing a song Natali Chaitraachi Navalaai. Mangeshkar had sung a Marathi song Naachu Yaa Gade, Khelu Saari Mani Haus Bhaari, which was composed by Sadashivrao Nevrekar for Vasant Joglekar's Marathi movie Kiti Hasaal in 1942 but unfortunately the song was dropped from the final cut. In 1942, when Mangeshkar’s father had died of heart disease, Master Vinayak Damodar Karnataki, film actor-director and a close friend of the Mangeshkar family, helped the Melody Queen start a career as an actress and singer. She later played Krishna in her father's production of Gurukul. Pandit Deenanath played the role of Arjun while nine-year-old Lata played Narad," he wrote in 'Lata: Sur Gatha'.īefore the start of the play, the young Lata told her father that she would get 'once more' from the audience like he always did. "Father Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar's drama company 'Balwant Sangeet Mandali' staged a play - Soubhadra, based on the story of Arjun and Subhadra. In his Hindi biography on Mangeshkar, writer Yatindra Mishra recalls the singer's debut on stage.
Read more: Remembering Lata Mangeshkar: 10 lesser-known facts about the 'Queen of Melody' Not many people know that at the age of five, the singing legend had started to work as an actress in her father's musical plays in Marathi language. Mangeshkar was named Hema at her birth but her parents had later renamed her as Lata after a female character named Latika, from her father, Deenanath Mangeshkar's play Bhaaw Bandhan. Before she ruled the Indian music circuit, Lata Mangeshkar started her career in the film industry as an actor playing smaller parts to support her family after her father's death.