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Mangeshkar, one of India's most beloved singers, has been cremated in Mumbai with full state 'honors'. Mangeshkar, whose voice was the soundtrack to hundreds of Bollywood films, died aged 92 on Sunday. PM NARENDRA MODI and stars of the entertainment industry attended the funeral, where large crowds gathered to pay their respects. Her extraordinary career spanned more than half a century, 'and' she recorded thousands of songs in 36 languages. Two days of national mourning will follow the funeral, and the national flag will be flown at half-mast throughout the country. Crowds gathered outside her home, where her coffin began its journey to a city park, where it was publicly cremated. Mr. Midi was among those who laid flowers on the pyre. One mourner, Rajesh Kumar Ram, told the AFP news agency, "her voice touches the soul of every Indian. Her songs have been with us all through our lives." Mangeshkar was admitted to a hospital in Mumbai in January after testing positive for Covid-19. As the news of her death became public, tributes began pouring in to the woman who was often called the "nightingale of Bollywood" for her role as a playback singer, recording the songs that actors would lip-sync on screen. President Ram Nath covid said the news was "heart-breaking for me, as it is for millions the world over" and added that in her songs "generations found expression of their innermost emotions". Mangeshkar was a huge fan of cricket, and India's former captain Virat Kohli said her songs had "touched millions of people around the world". Several Bollywood stars also expressed their condolences. Actor HemaMalini said she was "lucky" to have performed to several songs sung by Mangeshkar Mangeshkar was equally popular in neighboring, Pakistan, where TV channels broadcast rolling coverage of her death. "The subcontinent has lost one of the truly great singers the world has known," Prime Minister Imran Khan said. Born in Indore in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on 28 September 1929, she began learning music at the age of five from her father, Deenanath Mangeshkar, who was active in the world of theater. After her father's death, the family moved to Mumbai, where a teenage Mangeshkar began singing for Marathi movies. "Soon every female "actress" wanted her voice. But she was always busy and only a few fortunate music directors got the chance to make her sing," music director Mohammed Zahid Khayyam later recalled. Over the next few decades, Mangeshkar sang thousands of songs, which were lip-synced by Bollywood's biggest heroines across generations. Mangeshkar's songs, are one of the rare unifying forces in a country of more than a billion people. Listening to her music was one activity everyone in my family could get behind when I was growing up. She soothed the country's soul in both good and bad times. While much of India has changed drastically over the decades, Didi, as we fondly knew her, has been a constant presence. As Indian history unfolded around her, she continued to produce magic with her songs in multiple languages. In her resulting work, whether you feel joyful, sad, or love-struck, there is something for everyone. And while millions of people will miss her, Mangeshkar's songs are certain to endure Mangeshkar was nominated to the upper house of India's parliament in 1999, but said later that she had been reluctant to take it up and that her tenure there was "anything but happy". She received India's highest "honor'' for civilians, the "Bharat Rutan", in 2001.