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January 1998
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Asha and 105 female singers of Hindi movie songs
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Dear fellow music lovers:
Some of you may remember the statistical info I posted
on Lata some time ago. With this post, I begin similar info
on Asha. It comes from the book on Asha, called "svaraashaa"
published by Vishwas Nerurkar of Bombay, who published a
similar book on Lata earlier.
The following includes songs from Hindi-Urdu films only
and is up to 1994. The main part of the list is arranged as
follows: the name of the female singer, total number of
songs sung with Asha, total number of movies with Asha,
duets in which Asha and the named singer sang alone,
others in which another singer/s male and/or female
participated. As usual, transliteration scheme of Avinash
Chopde has been used.
As usual, the ultimate source of most of this info is
the 5-volume Hindi Film Giit Kosh by Har Mandir Singh
Hamaraaz and Bishwa Nath Chatterjee.
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name songs movies duets other
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ushaa mangeshakar 181 173 146 35
lataa 79 72 58 21
shamashaad 53 29 32 21
giitaa datt 36 32 31 5
kamal baaroT 35 29 26 9
sudhaa malhotraa 33 30 20 13
dilaraaj kaur 22 17 10 12
miinuu purushottam 21 16 12 9
ushaa khannaa 17 16 14 3
mubaaraq 13 12 10 3
ushaa timothii 12 12 10 2
hemalataa 12 12 5 7
suman kalyaaNapur 10 10 9 1
chandraaNii mukharjii 9 4 5 4
sushamaa shreshTh 6 6 1 5
kavitaa krishNamuurtii 5 5 4 1
saadhanaa saragam 5 5 3 2
zoharaabaaii 5 5 2 3
shaaradaa 4 4 3 1
aaratii mukharjii 4 4 2 2
miinaa mangeshakar 4 4 0 4
shivaangii kolhaapure 4 3 0 4
sulochanaaa kadam 3 3 3 0
raajakumarii 3 3 2 1
sabitaa banarjii 3 3 2 1
vanitaa mishra 3 3 1 2
gurapriit kaur 3 3 0 3
kanchan 3 3 0 3
rimaa laahi.Dii 3 3 0 3
kavitaa pau.Davaal 3 2 2 1
chaandabaalaa 3 1 1 2
raanuu mukharjii 3 1 1 2
faiyaaz 3 1 0 3
lakshmii raay 2 2 2 0
minal vaagh 2 2 2 0
antaraa chaudharii 2 2 1 1
anupamaa deshapaaNDe 2 2 1 1
aruNaa iiraanii 2 2 1 1
madhubaalaa zhaaverii 2 2 1 1
miinaa kapuur 2 2 1 1
simmii garevaal 2 2 1 1
suraiyaa 2 2 1 1
padminii kolhaapure 2 2 0 2
rekhaa 2 1 1 1
varshaa bhosale 2 1 1 1
raajeshvarii 2 1 0 2
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The following female singers had only one duet with
Asha in only one film:
aashimaa banarjii, amiirabaaii karnaaTakii
anuraadhaa pau.Davaal, aparNaa mayekar, baby bulabul
hamiidaa, henriTaa krieDo, jagajiit kaur, maalaa
miinakshii, miiraa siraaj, p. sushiilaa
paraviin baabii, paraviin sultaanaa, pramodinii
puur.Naa seTh, raanii gairolaa, s. jaanakii
saavitrii, saralaa kapuur, shailaa, shammii
siitaa, siitaa banarjii, sujaataa
sulakshNaa paN.Dit, surindar kaur, ushaa ayyar
yogitaa baalii
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The following female singers had only one song with
Asha in only one film, but other singers were involved,
male, female or chorus:
aineT, beharoz chaTarjii, bhaavanaa shaah
chaand kumarii, Dimpal, Dolly Daavajekar
guracharan kaur, indiraa, iraa naagarath
jayashrii shivaraam, kalyaaNii, kamalaa shriivaastav
kaushalyaa, komal, miis vijay, mohanataaraa ajinky
munmii boharaa, paamelaa chopa.Daa, pramilaa daataar
priiti, priyaa mayekar, puur.Nimaa, rekhaa jayakar
saagarikaa mukharjii, salamaa aaGaa, sapanaa mukharjii
suhaasinii kolhaapure, ushaa, ushaa rege, ushaa utthup
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Acknowledgment: Most of what I write on Hindi films would
not have been possible without the constant support and
encouragement of my wife, Harmesh Kaur.
Enjoy!
Surjit Singh, a diehard movie fan(atic), period.
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