RMIM Archive Article "328".


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# Subject:  Number of songs by Asha
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# Posted by: Surjit Singh
# Author: Surjit Singh dussh@ttacs.ttu.edu
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Here is what Nerurakar says in the book called "svaraashaa": ------------------------------------------------------------------- The number of songs sung by Asha in various languages is as follows: Hndi films 7594 Marathi films 1200 Gujarati films 450 Panjabi films 250 Bangali films 350 Bhojpuri films 150 Rajasthani/magadhi /maithili/marawadi films 50 other language films 50 non-filmi songs 250 Total 10344 (In this list, the number of Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati and Panjabi songs is totally accurate. But the number of Bangali, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Magadhi, Maithili, Marawadi and other regional language songs is estimated.) ---------------------------------------------------------- My comment: It is hard to believe that the number of songs in the languages claimed to be "totally accurate" is divisible by 10 or 100. My feeling is that these are also estimates. In the absence of an exact count, one might say that the error in the number of non-Hindi-film songs (2750) should be calculated from a Gaussian distribution (square root of 2750) and so the total number of songs sung by Asha is 10344 plus-minus 52. Surjit Singh, a diehard movie fan(atic), period.
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