According to a family member of the great singer, the Swar Mauli Foundation, a Lata Mangeshkar dream project, would be unveiled on Wednesday in honour of Guru Poornima.
Lata Mangeshkar’s niece Rachana Khadikar Shah said, “This foundation will further begin the work to build an old-age home primarily for those artists who are left to their peril in the evening of their lives.”
Lata Mangeshkar’s niece Rachana Khadikar Shah said, “This foundation will further begin the work to build an old-age home primarily for those artists who are left to their peril in the evening of their lives. ”Senior artists, in the words of Lata Mangeshkar, are “time’s sentinels who carry down a rich legacy to the new generation,” and are considered to be the apex of tradition, wisdom, and art.
Khadikar Shah said that Mangeshkar held the view that India has, down the centuries, held in esteem the old and the beautiful. It was her vision to help and heal the elderly artists and needless to add, this core value has shaped the concept of Swar Mauli Foundation, added Khadikar Shah.
“Having entertained millions, artists fade into oblivion as limbs turn frail. Lights are out, encores are feeble, and a long winter awaits them. Swar Mauli is eager to extend a touch of warmth to such artists, whether from the field of music, theatre, cinema or the performing arts,” she said while adding that the Swar Mauli Foundation is a secular and non-profit organisation
