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BHOPAL: The home in Indore’s Sikh Mohalla locality, the place mythical singer, Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar was once born on September 28, 1929 is now historical past, as it’s been changed by means of the Mehta Material Middle, which now recalls Lata Didi with a mural inside the store.
However round 22 km away in the similar town, the Pigdambar village homes the Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar Gramophone Information Sangrahalaya — an extraordinary museum of gramophone information retaining the rarest of uncommon collections of songs sung by means of Lata Didi between 1955 and 2006.
The museum positioned just about the Indian Institute of Control (IIM-Indore) campus isn’t a central authority introduction, however as an alternative being run since 1970 by means of 70-year-old Suman Chourasia, a die-hard Lata Mangeshkar fan, who’s beloved by means of the Mangeshkar circle of relatives as Lata Didi’s 2nd brother, after Hridaynath Mangeshkar.
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The museum of gramophone information positioned in the home of the Chourasia circle of relatives (which migrated to Indore from East UP’s Jaunpur district over 150 years in the past) is a treasure area of 45,000-plus rarest of uncommon gramophone information of Indian motion pictures, folks and classical song, together with 7500-plus information of Lata Didi’s songs.
“This museum devoted to Lata Didi was once began in 1970 and preserves 7500-plus gramophone information of her songs sung in 32 languages, spanning from the 1955 movie Uran Khatola to 2006 movie Rang De Basanti. Even Lata Didi’s circle of relatives has sourced from us the rarest of uncommon information, which even they didn’t possess,” recounted Suman Chourasia, who has been considered a circle of relatives member by means of the Mangeshkar circle of relatives over the past 4 many years.
“It’s Lata Didi’s nephew Baijnath who has been sourcing from me, her rarest of uncommon songs since final 20 years,” mentioned Chourasia, whose love for retaining the gramophone information on the museum, in spite of monetary crunch, compelled him to promote his agricultural and home plots in addition to spouse Neelima’s jewelry to supply the rarest information, no longer handiest from India, but additionally in another country.
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“Respecting my love for Lata Didi’s songs and different gramophone information, my spouse has stood by means of me even in maximum making an attempt eventualities and not allowed the Lata Dinanath Mangeshkar Gramophone Information Museum to halt its operations,” Chourasia added proudly.
Chourasia, who has had a number of memorable conferences with the making a song legend between early Eighties and 2018, mentioned “I’m lucky that Lata Didi beloved me as her 2nd brother, however unlucky that I wasn’t there in Mumbai, when she breathed final. I’m at the moment in Jhansi (UP), however making all preparations to be with the Mangeshkar circle of relatives in Mumbai by means of Monday.”
In line with Sanjay Mandloi, the vice chairman of this uncommon museum of gramophone information, “regardless of how large the monetary issues were with him, Suman Chourasia and his circle of relatives, comprising spouse, two daughters and a son, have by no means allowed the museum to prevent functioning.
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At the moment, Suman Chourasia has an enviable community of gramophone file fans and house owners from around the globe. He has been a longer member of the Mangeshkar circle of relatives and was once in contact with Lata Didi’s private assistant Mahesh Rathod frequently over telephone to stay monitor of her well being.”
“He (Chourasia) has additionally digitally preserved the wealthy treasure of melodies of the gramophone information and every year got here out with books devoted to Lata Didi, together with a guide on her 80 songs with 80 song composers on her eightieth birthday in 2009. Lata Didi continuously informed him (Chourasia) to not waste cash on publishing the books as she believed that there have been infrequently any avid readers left, however like another cussed more youthful brother, he overpassed Didi’s recommendation and endured publishing the ones books every year,” Mandloi mentioned.