Shraddha remembers her Lata aaji

IMAGE: Shraddha Kapoor, who is Lataji's grand niece: 'I will forever cherish the honour of having shared precious moments with you.'
'Your hand on my head, your warm gaze, your loving words of encouragement. Thank you for your simplicity, divinity, excellence and grace.'
'Truly The Greatest of all time! I Love You Lata Aaji.'
Photograph: Kind courtesy Shraddha Kapoor/Instagram

IMAGE: Shraddha shared a picture of Lataji with her maternal grandfather, Pandit Pandharinath Kolhapure.
Photograph: Kind courtesy Shraddha Kapoor/Instagram

IMAGE: A rare picture of Lataji when she was young.
Photograph: Kind courtesy Shraddha Kapoor/Instagram

IMAGE: Asha Bhosle shares a picture from their childhood and writes, 'Bachpan ke din bhi kya din the. Didi and I.'
Photograph: Kind courtesy Asha Bhosle/Instagram

IMAGE: Karisma Kapoor shares a picture from the premiere of her grandfather Raj Kapoor's film Awara, and writes: 'So many legends together in one frame at the premiere of dadaji'
Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Shashi Kapoor and Lataji.
Photograph: Kind courtesy Karisma Kapoor/Instagram

IMAGE: Neil Nitin Mukesh shares a picture of Lataji with his father Nitin Mukesh and writes, 'Cannot even begin to tell you what my family feels at this moment. We are devastated.
'For my father @nitinmukesh9, music began with her and ended with her. He is inconsolable.
'Lata didi was the Goddess that my father and all of us worshipped SAAKSHAT SARASWATI.'
Neil's grandfather, the legendary singer Mukesh, was on a concert tour with Lataji in the US when he suffered a fatal heart attack in Detroit. Photograph: Kind courtesy Neil Nitin Mukesh/Instagram

IMAGE: Neil also shared a picture with his grandfather Mukesh, and added, '4 generations of the Mukesh Family simply love her. 3 have not only worked with her but owe our identities to her, don't forget she named me. She is one with God we will love you forever.'
Photograph: Kind courtesy Neil Nitin Mukesh/Instagram

IMAGE: Kamal Haasan shares a throwback moment with Ilaiyaraaja, S P Balasubrahmanyam and Lata Mangeshkar, clicked during the making of his Tamil film, Sathyaa, and writes, 'Lata Mangeshkar, using her music, overcame barriers of language, to mesmerise hearts.
'She has left behind thousands of songs in the air which when listened to are bound to trigger emotions and feelings. That she has sung songs that cannot be destroyed by time in Tamil and Hindi films that I have acted in is a fact of which I am proud. My respects to the queen of music from Indore.'
Photograph: Kind courtesy Kamal Haasan/Instagram