Warbling her way into our hearts with the haunting and ethereal strains of "Aayega Aanewala" in "Mahal" (1949), Lata Mangeshkar became the definitive voice of several generations of Indian film heroines -- from Madhubala to Madhuri Dixit, Kamini Kaushal to Kajol, Padmini to Preity Zinta, Sharmila Tagore to Sridevi, and countless others -- in a wide range of melodic songs that will reverberate for all ages.