Fan gives old school gift to Lata on her 82nd birthday

A die hard fan of melody queen Lata Mangeshkar has created a museum of rare gramophone records of the legendary singer, who turns 82 on Wednesday.

Suman Chaurasia has built a museum titled 'Lata Deenanath Mangeshkar Gramophone Record Museum' near singer's birthplace in Indore.

Chaurasia, 61, who runs a tea stall in the Railway station, says his museum boasts of 6000 songs of Lata.

"I have almost all the gramophone records of Lata's songs right from her first song to the numbers she sung in All India Radio," he told to PTI.

"Searching for gramophone records is very difficult because they have become a passe now. Many of her songs were released in limited number, so finding them is always a task," he said.

Chaurasia, who has been collecting songs for past 40-years, has collected 28,000 rare gramophones records, which also include singers from Pakistan, Bangladesh and West.