Celebrated music composer Vanraj Bhatia always said, "Lata is a composers dream", which no one will dispute. How many of the film music connoisseurs, however, know that Lata Mangeshkar was also a dream composer? Beyond Maharashtra and some parts of Karnataka, the world has hardly taken note of Lata Mangeshkar, the music composer on a par with any of the musical greats. She even had taken a pseudonym, Anandghan, literally, "a cloud of ananda (joy)".

Lataji composed music for only Marathi films. The first was 'Ram Ram Pahuna' in 1950. For the next four whose music she scored, she masked her identity behind the pseudonym Anandghan. The films were 'Mohityanchi Manjula' (1963), 'Maratha Tituka Melvava' (1964), 'Saadhi Manasa' (1965) and 'Tambdii Mati' (1969).