For any lover of old Hindi movie songs, the weekend was a treat. The FM channels were playing Madan Mohan Songs on Saturday and R.D. Burman reigned supreme on Sunday. For once, I wished I could listen to more than one channel simultaneously. :-)

As I kept on flipping thro the channels in search of my favorite songs, I chanced upon one that was playing back an interview with Lata Mangeshkar. I was amazed to learn that her original first name was "Hridaya". It seems her dad started calling her "Lata" based on a character named "Latika" in the play "Bhav Bandhan" in which he was acting. Wow!