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Asha Bhosle's first big success was B R Chopra's Naya Daur ("The New Age", 1957). Her duets with Rafi like Maang ke saath tumhara, Saathi haath badhana and Uden jab jab zulfein teri, penned by Sahir Ludhianvi and composed by O P Nayyar, gave her recognition. Asha and O P Nayyar had worked earlier as well. But it was the first time that she had got to sing all the songs for the lead actress. B R Chopra, the producer of Naya Daur recognized her talent and got her to sing in many of his later films including Waqt and Gumraah, Humraaz, Aadmi Aur Insaan, Dhund etc.
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Asha Bhosle is a prolific recording artist known for her work in the Bollywood industry. She has recorded more than 12,000 songs in 14 languages, and been involved in more than 900 films. Asha and her sister Lata Mangeshkar were immortalised in 1997 by British indie outfit, Cornershop, in the song Brimful of Asha.
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Asha Bhosle has worked with many other composers too, most notably Jaidev and C Ramchandra. Asha recorded one of the Bollywood's first Rock n' Roll numbers Eeena Meena Deeka with C Ramachandra . C Ramachandra used Asha Bhosle as the chief singer in many of V. Shantaram's films, the most notable being Navrang (1959). When S D Burman's assistant, Jaidev started giving music independently, he got Asha to sing some of his songs as well. They worked in Hum Dono, Mujhe Jeene Do and other movies.
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Described as “the most recorded voice on the planet,” with more than 12,500 titles to her name, singer Asha Bhosle has carved a niche for herself as one of the most versatile singers in the business. Early in her career, Ms. Bhosle trained in classical singing but soon followed the footsteps of her elder sister, Lata Mangeshkar, and worked as a playback singer for the growing Indian film industry. Two partnerships—with O.P. Nayyar and R.D. Burman—assured her songs a permanent place in music history. Nayyar, the famed music director, is credited with breaking Ms. Bhosle’s career in the 1950s.
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By 1980s, Asha Bhosle had been stereotyped as a "cabaret singer" and a "pop crooner". In Rekha-starrer Umrao Jaan, she sang ghazals like Dil cheez kya hai, In aankhon ki masti ke, Ye kya jagah hai doston and Justju jiski thi. The songs proved her capable of doing fairly serious songs. The music director Khayyam, had lowered her pitch by half a note. Asha herself was surprised that she could sing so differently. The ghazals won her the first National Award of her career and proved her versatility.
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Alongside her sister Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle is regarded as an icon of Marathi music (Marathi is her mother tongue). She has sung several non-film songs of the genre commonly referred to as Bhaav Geet, which consist mostly of poems written by notable poets. A good example of is the popular album Rutu Hirawa ("Green Season"), composed by Shreedhar Phadke.
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