The sad passing of Asha Bhosle again symbolises yet another nail in the coffin of the very certain final curtain call of an era that most Indians here in South Africa, as well as in India and the diaspora — particularly those who were born in the forties, fifties and even sixties — remember as the most glorious episode in the post-British period.
Politically, as well as in Indian cinema, music, lyricists, music directors, film producers and actors.
The hundreds of films — like Rattan, Aan, Mother India, Pakeezah and Gunga Jumna – still resonate in the minds of millions of Indians across the globe.
Singers like Asha, Lata, Suraiya, Zohra Ambala, Mukesh, Mohamed Rafi and Manna Dey were always household names during those times.
Music directors like Shankar-Jaikishan, Naushad,…
