New Delhi. Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar used to make any song a hit with her magical voice. Today Lata ji is not in this world, but fans still like to listen to the songs sung by her.

Lata Mangeshkar's birth anniversary is celebrated on 28 September. On that basis, we have brought for you such an interesting story related to the singer, which you hardly know about. Lata Mangeshkar was once rejected by a famous director because of her thin voice. 

Voice had become a problem for Lata

Lata Mangeshkar's status as a singer has been very high in the film industry. But this truth is also not hidden from anyone that this legendary singer also had to go through a lot of struggle. According to the report of IMDb, the matter is related to the Tragedy King i.e. Dilip Kumar's film Shaheed, which was directed by S Mukherjee.

He had auditioned Lata Mangeshkar for a song in this movie. Mukherjee sahab did not like the singer's voice and said that her voice is very thin and it is not right for the song of my film. In this way he rejected Lata Mangeshkar. 

Dilip Kumar gave advice

However, later Dilip sahab himself heard Lata Mangeshkar's voice and gave her a big advice. Since Lata was of Marathi origin, there was a Marathi tone in her voice. Therefore Dilip Kumar advised her to acquire knowledge of Urdu words so that her singing could improve. After this, Lata learned Urdu after a lot of hard work and then she became the Nightingale of Hindi cinema history.

Lata sang more than 50 thousand songs

As a singer, Lata Mangeshkar is also considered the best female playback singer of the industry. In her singing career, she sang more than 50 thousand songs in 14 different languages. Most of her songs became evergreen with her melodious voice. The amazing thing is that Lata remained active as a singer from the black and white era of cinema to the color screen.