Last rituals of Jagjit Singh performed in Mumbai

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Colleagues, relatives and fans attended cremation of ghazal maestro Jagjit Singh.

12 October,2011 04:32 am

Relatives and fans of renowned ghazal singer Jagjit Singh including Bollywood playback singers and music composers, gathered in huge numbers to attend his last rites at his residence of Pushpa Milan apartments in a posh locale of south Mumbai on Tuesday.The 70-year-old maestro of Ghazal (romantic and sentimental couplets in Urdu and Hindi) singing breathed his last at Lilavati hospital on Monday after battling for life for more than a fortnight following a brain haemorrhage.Bollywood playback singers including Sonu Nigam and Pankaj Udhas also attended the ceremony along with music composer Shekhar Ravjiani.Singhs body was taken in an ambulance to Chandanwadi Crematorium, where it is expected to be cremated in evening.Credited with popularising the ghazal genre and making it accessible to the masses, Singh cut more than 40 private albums and sang for innumerable Bollywood films, influencing an entire generation of music lovers.