When Bappi Lahiri said Lata Mangeshkar was Goddess Saraswati: She was beyond incredible

Music composer Bappi Lahiri died following multiple health issues, a doctor treating him said on Wednesday. He was 69.

Lahiri had last week broken down while paying his tribute to late legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar. She died earlier this month.

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The ‘Disco Dancer’ singer had said that Mangeshkar was Mata Saraswati. 

“Many say she was the reincarnation of Mata Saraswati. I say she was sakshaat Saraswati Mata. Unko main hazaar pranaam karta hoon. In her going I’ve lost my mother all over again. I have been in her lap when I was a toddler. When I had Covid last year I was at Breach Candy hospital for fourteen days. Maa Called my wife every day…every single day at 7 PM sharp. Even when I came home from hospital she was extremely concerned, especially about my voice,” he said, as per Firstpost.

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Lahiri was discharged from the hospital on Monday. However, his health detoriated on  Tuesday and his family called for a doctor to visit their home, his doctor told PTI. 

“He died due to OSA (obstructive sleep apnea) shortly before midnight,” Dr Deepak Namjoshi, director of the hospital, added.

Lahiri had also recalled Lata Mangeshkar sending him a handwritten letter.

“On 27 November 2021, she sent me a beautiful handwritten letter with her aashirwaad and a gift for me—a silver Ram-Lakshman-Hanuman statue—and a saree from my wife. She considered me her son. She has known from when I was 2. She would visit our home in Kolkata,” he said. 

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The singer-composer said that Lata Mangeskar sang his first composition. 

“I was 4 when in the Eden Garden locality of Kolkata where we lived, Lataji came home and blessed me. I still have a picture of me sitting in her lap. She sang many Bangla songs for my father(Aparesh Lahiri) who was a well-known composer in Kolkata. From then on she has supported me. She sang my first composition in a Bengali film Daadu. If she hadn’t sung for me I’d have been swept away by the competition. She sang for the first time in Hindi for me in Chalte Chalte. Her songs Pyar mein kabhi kabhi and Dur dur tum rahe are hummed to this day.”