Mumbai, December 03: Hers was a voice that enthralled millions, a voice, which she claims, was stifled by her contemporaries in the Hindi film industry.
“I don’t want to name them. Everyone knows them. They snatched away work from me, ensuring that no music director or film-maker ever gave me any,” Mubarak Begum told PTI.
The 70-year-old singer lives in penury in a small house of Behrampauda area in western suburb Jogeshwari, with an ailing daughter and a son who drives a taxi.
“It’s a struggle to take care of the grocery, phone and electricity bills,” she added.
A singer long forgotten by the film fraternity, she mesmerised an entire generation of music lovers with her immortal numbers like ‘Mujhko apne gale lagaa lo’, ‘O mere humrahi’ from film ‘Humrahi’ and ‘Bemurrawwat bewafa begana dil’ from ‘Susheela’.
–PTI