Overview
- The singer died peacefully at her Lokhandwala home at about 8 p.m. on Sunday, May 31, family friend and biographer Mangala Khadilkar told news agencies.
- Her last rites were held on June 1 at Santacruz (Pawan Hans) crematorium with full state honours, her body draped in the national flag and Mumbai Police giving a ceremonial salute while her daughter Charu performed the final rites.
- Kalyanpur built a six-decade career across Hindi, Marathi and other regional languages, recording roughly 740 songs and about 140 duets with Mohammed Rafi, and she was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2023.
- Political and cultural leaders including the president and prime minister publicly paid tribute, calling her loss significant for Indian art and underlining her standing in the mid-20th-century film-music tradition.
- Her voice is remembered for classic hits such as 'Aajkal Tere Mere Pyar Ke Charche' and 'Na Na Karte Pyar', and her passing is likely to renew interest in archival recordings and retrospectives of the golden era of Indian film music.