Asha Bhosle on turning 88: I want to resume live shows
SEvery year, veteran singer Asha Bhosle opts for a quiet family time over big celebrations for her birthday, and that’s exactly the plan for her 88th birthday, today. “I haven’t celebrated my birthday for many years. Ghar mein simple sa hota hai mahul, aur bacche cake kaat lete hain. Birthday is not a special day for me. Hum toh buddhe hote hai us din. It is something that kids celebrate,” confesses Bhosle, adding, “I celebrated my birthday once when I turned 75. We invited every singer I’ve worked and share a close bond with. Uske baad, I asked my family to refrain from parties. This year, I will be in Lonavala with my daughter-inlaw and granddaughter.”
Walking down the memory lane, Bhosle witching from one film industry to another has its own challenges, but for actor Priya Bapat, the transition from Marathi to Hindi films was rather smooth. She, in fact, doesn’t support the notion that actors from regional film industries face any prejudices in Bollywood.
“I don’t think that there is anything other than production scale that changes, shares, “Earlier, I would spend my birthday in the studio. I remember many people from the industry, including Shankar–jaikishan and RD Burman, would keep a recording on m birthday, phir sab milkar dhol, tashe, tabla bajate the.”
The Dum Maro Dum singer has bee rendering songs for almost eight decades and one thing that has travelle with her in all these years is her passio for work, which is intact, as she spends her days doing riyaaz even now. “But when it comes to the professional sphere, I want to just sing songs that ar good. Recently, one producer called m saying, ‘Suna hai ab aap gaati nahin ho I told him aisa kuch nahin hai. I recent worked on a song for a Marathi film,” she shares.
Ask her if the thought of retirement has crossed her mind, and the singer says no. “Just before the pandemic, I di three live shows. It was because of the Covid-19 crisis that many of my shows got cancelled. Pandemic mein toh puri duniya hi baith gai. I’m just waiting for things to get normal, so that I can resume my live shows,” she concludes. the sets and how one behaves.
“I don’t think there was any kind of discrimination or prejudices in terms of opportunities or attitude. The way I started my journey was my choice. I started with Marathi films because it was comfortable for me. If I would have started my career in Hindi after Munna Bhai ,it would have been a different career altogether,” she explains.
Bapat, best known for her roles in Marathi films Happy