Veteran TV and film personality, Tabassum was deep in grief when ETimes contacted her post the demise of the legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar. The 77-year-old actress was extremely devastated with the loss, yet feels grateful and fortunate to be able to work with the 'Melody queen' for the longest period.
Saddened by Lata ji's demise she said, "It’s very sad as one of the irreplaceable personalities of our nation has left us forever. Legends will be there but we won’t get someone like Lata Mangeshkar again. “Lata ji ek hi thi, ek hi hai aur hamesha ek hi rahegi”(Lata ji was, is and will be the only one). And I am fortunate enough that I knew her since the 1940s. There is no other personality in this film industry who is associated with her for such a long period. In today’s date, if we see, from our film industry, there was one Dilip Kumar who belonged to that 40s era, another one was Lata ji and I am the third one.”
