![]() One imperious frown from her sends the country's highest paid music directors in a panic.Ī single disapproving shake of her head makes the top brass of internationally connected record companies grow cold feet. Latabai Mangeshkar, who, as a playback singer, enjoys today a clout which even the movie moguls of the country's Rs 100-crore film industry cannot dream of. ![]() The "masseur" of this all-pervading music, and the queen-empress of India's immensely popular light music industry, is a portly, dark, camera shy, plain-as-Jane Marathi woman. If Marshall McLuhan, the communication wizard, were still alive and called upon to cast an eye across his "global village" -to India's music scene, he might have paid homage to the voice with the new phrase: "music is the massage". The voice, like Mahatma Gandhi's loin cloth and Rabindranath Tagore's beard, has become a part of India's collective unconscious. ![]()
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