Vividh Bharati gone down to memory lane

Bharati is celebrating its 50th anniversary and it has gone down memory lane and tuned in to Bollywood's most famous voices which have been featured on the radio channel. Amitabh Bachchan lent his voice to the channel during his struggling days as a radio broadcaster. In fact, he isn't the only Bollywood voice that comnemunicated to every nook and cranny of India through a radio programme.

Some other priceless anecdotes given out to listeners by our best-known baritones are Lata Mangeshkar and Raj Kumar. On their 50th year, Vividh Bharati revealed the changes in technology that time has brought in. Yet, one can't help but linger on the lissome voices of some of India's best-known radio hosts.As dust gathers on the first radio transmitting equipment, it makes one rewind to the good old days of the radio.


Yet the eye opener in this inconspicuous office is the fascinating music record library with its awe-inspiring collection. A record of Yehudi Ki Beti in 1933 is the first record to have entered the Vividh Bharati Library. Since then, it has stored 22,000 gazals, geets and Hindi film songs, that have entertained people in the remotest parts including reaching out to the soldiers stationed at the border areas.

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