Angry Lata Mangeshkar demanded royalty from Raj Kapoor after he fired her brother, refused to sing for him: ‘I will sit outside your house till…’

“It was precise embarrassing for me. Hridaynath called maine and said that helium had accepted the movie due to the fact that of maine but the newspapers were penning otherwise. He was offended and embarrassed. I was precise aggravated with Raj ji. On my return, I called him and said ‘Why did you bash this? I had persuaded him due to the fact that you had asked maine to’,” she said. Ritu, the writer of the publication and Raj’s daughter, wrote that this became a bony of contention betwixt the two. “Lata started harassing Raj Kapoor. She started demanding royalty from him for the songs that she would sing successful the future, arsenic she did with different producers. She wanted much wealth and adjacent created delays successful signaling for him,” she wrote.

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To diffuse the tension, Pandit Narendra Sharma, who was a father-like fig for Lata, intervened and convinced her to sing for Satyam Shivam Sundaram arsenic nary different dependable would bash justness to the songs. Lata enactment distant the information that if she sings, she would not talk with anyone successful the studio. She adjacent asked Laxmikant Pyarelal to prohibition Raj Kapoor from entering the workplace during her recording.

“I sang the opus and went consecutive to the car without talking to anyone. Bobby was being made, I called Raj Kapoor and told him that the singers relation had asked the singers to instrumentality royalty straight from the producers. He instantly replied ‘Main yahan concern karne aaya hoon, royalty baatenein nahi’ (I person travel present to bash business, not administer royalty). I replied ‘Aap concern karne aaye hain aur main Rani Bagh aayi hun’ (You person travel present for concern and I person travel to the zoo),” Lata recalled.

The hostility was astatine its highest and Raj requested Laxmikant Pyarelal to mediate the alleged acold warfare betwixt them. Lata rejected his efforts for rather immoderate clip but eventually, Raj Kapoor called her and said, “If you garbage to sing for my film, main aapke ghar ke saamne tambu laga ke baithunga (I volition enactment up a structure extracurricular your house.)”

The 2 yet made up arsenic Lata sang for Bobby and each the different films that Raj Kapoor made during his movie career.