Lata Mangeshkar
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Search complete. 11 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Lata Mangeshkar".
Sep 29, 2026
Sami Abu ShumaysGUEST
compare Mkosum
David EllenbogenHOST
to Lata Mangeshkar and the Beatles and Frank Sinatra, these people who...
Sami Abu ShumaysGUEST
Iconic.
Sami Abu ShumaysGUEST
What's that? Iconic.
Zach SangHOST
Yes.
Hasan MinhajGUEST
Th- what, what they're sampling, a lot of their sam- samples, Lata Mangeshkar samples.
Hasan MinhajGUEST
They are sampling a genre of music that is a combination, that is articulated through dance.
Hasan MinhajGUEST
What you have is bharatanatyam and kathak, which is classical South Indian dance.
Salil DesaiGUEST
You think of in India, playback singing in Hindi films.
Salil DesaiGUEST
Since Lata Mangeshkar started singing, every decade,
Saurabh MukherjeaHOST
late
Salil DesaiGUEST
40s is when she got her big break and she was singing till A. R. Rahman was a composer.
Salil DesaiGUEST
So you can imagine the longevity of that career.
Salil DesaiGUEST
Now every decade since she started singing, there will be somebody who will come on the scene and say this is the next Lata Mangeshkar.
Salil DesaiGUEST
But there's nobody quite like her.
Salil DesaiGUEST
And you see that even today when on a reality show some kid goes and tries to impress the judge, they will very likely choose a Lata Mangeshkar song.
Willa PaskinHOST
And in all these examples spanning genres and decades, the voice coming out of every one of these actors' mouths belongs to the same person.
Willa PaskinHOST
Lata Mangeshkar.
Nasreen Munni KabirGUEST
She was called the voice of the nation.
Nasreen Munni KabirGUEST
She was called India's Nightingale.
Willa PaskinHOST
So over the course of the 1940s, dubbing the songs became standard practice.
Willa PaskinHOST
Not just for a few movie stars, but for almost all of them.
Willa PaskinHOST
This is when Lata Mangeshkar got her start.
Willa PaskinHOST
When playback singers were still something like an open secret.
Willa PaskinHOST
in this 2001 historical sports epic.
Willa PaskinHOST
And in all these examples spanning genres and decades, the voice coming out of every one of these actors' mouths belongs to the same person, Lata Mangeshkar.
Nasreen Munni KabirGUEST
She was called the voice of the nation.
Nasreen Munni KabirGUEST
She was called India's Nightingale.
Willa PaskinHOST
So over the course of the 1940s, dubbing the songs became standard practice.
Willa PaskinHOST
Not just for a few movie stars, but for almost all of them.
Willa PaskinHOST
This is when Lata Mangeshkar got her start.
Willa PaskinHOST
When playback singers were still something like an open secret.
Willa PaskinHOST
And in all these examples spanning genres and decades, the voice coming out of every one of these actors' mouths belongs to the same person.
Willa PaskinHOST
Lata Mangeshkar.
Nasreen Munni KabirGUEST
She was called the voice of the nation.
Nasreen Munni KabirGUEST
She was called India's Nightingale.
Willa PaskinHOST
So over the course of the 1940s, dubbing the songs became standard practice.
Willa PaskinHOST
Not just for a few movie stars, but for almost all of them.
Willa PaskinHOST
This is when Lata Mangeshkar got her start.
Willa PaskinHOST
When playback singers were still something like an open secret.