"I like watching cricket. I prefer to watch Test cricket or one day international matches,” she is quoted saying. “People who have grown watching them would like to do the same. I don't like the Twenty20 format and even my brother does not watch it. Though Mumbai Indians are our very own, I don't support any one team. I just want to enjoy the game."
This she said while at the launch of a book based on her life. The book by Nasreen Munni Kabir, titled 'Lata Mangeshkar... in her own voice', is a set of candid revelations about the person behind the voice that has sung thousands of songs and stolen hearts for over six decades.
She also admitted that she doesn’t approve of the 'singing-dancing' style that is adapted by people in reality shows. “I don't like it personally.
I feel if they dance while singing then it will lead to breathlessness thus hampering their performance," she said.
The book that was launched on Friday attempts to trace Lata’s inner life and personality in a very colloquial, conversational style, that doesn’t follow any format or pattern that might restrict the flow of thought and images: “One will know her (Lata) more closely after reading this book as she talks about her life. One needs to have good memory to remember all the events of their life, and she did have it," Kabir said.
"Though way back in 1991, I had made a documentary on her. But it wasn't an easy task as I had to do a lot of research. I know her for 20 years and yet there is no change in her behaviour or attitude the only thing is that she is getting older," she said.
The book was a result of spending hours talking to Lata and understanding her personality, her life and her eye-view of the world.
