Happy 80th birthday, Lata Mangeshkar. For some very good Lata birthday posts - two years in a row - you should go to Carlito’s blog, here and here.
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P.S. That’s a nice picture of Lata on the right, which I found surfing around last night. Don’t let the blog format confuse you; the image at the top doesn’t feature Lata. ;-)
Go to Carlito’s Blog for Good Lata Birthday Posts
28 Monday Sep 2009
Posted in Bollywood
I love that Lata picture on your blog! Very nice :-)
Thanks, Dustedoff. Maybe at some point I’ll try to retrace my Net surfing steps to give some credit to the source.
I like Lata’s braid in this picture. I couldn’t help noticing how much it resembles the braid that Sandhya wears in Teen Batti Char Rasta. :)
Agree with dustedoff re Lata picture.
Richard, yes – Lata’s braid does look a lot like Sandhya’s in Teen Batti Chaar Raasta! (Great female singers have long and lovely hair?) But till the 80′s at least, long braids were very common. I remember when I was in school, I used to stick out like a sore thumb because I had short hair – all my classmates except a couple had braids!
Oh no, the famous braids! Although in Punjab you might think it was because of Sikh girls, but in fact nearly all girls wore their hair long: in two braids which, if you didn’t get away in time would be finished with 2 ribbons and folded over big bows…bane of our lives.
In fact, I properly “grew up” the day my mum allowed me to comb my own hair and wear a single braid With a centre Parting!! That must have been when I was 15 or so. With what trivia we felt free!