“Hello Subhash,” that voice I’ve known for 25 years returned after a long hiatus. Alisha Chinai who sang innumerable Bappi Lahiri compositions into the charts breaks her silence from her home in Alibaug.“I owe my career to Bappida. I sang …God knows how many songs I sang for him, most definitely 50-100 songs. In fact, just six months ago Bappi called and asked me to sing a Bengali song for me. ‘Aisa,tum karogi mera gaan?’ he always called me ‘Aisa’. I would playfully correct him, ‘Bappida, my name is Alisha not Aisa, you must stop having so many rashogollas.’ Bappida was God’s child. So pure and childlike, so free of guile and cunning. All he cared about was his music.”
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