After the Indian cricket team won the 1983 World Cup, a Lata Mangeshkar concert was organized at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in Delhi to celebrate their victory. The concert was a huge hit and a sum of around Rs 20 lakh was collected. The members of the Indian team were given one lakh rupees each as a reward from that amount.

Kirmani told mid-day.com, “The passing of the Golden voice is a huge loss to the country and music lovers globally. She was such  a down to earth person particularly during our playing days Chandra (BS Chandrashekhar) and me were huge fans of Mukheshji. Kalyanji-Anandji used to invite Chandra and I use to go along because I was a big fan of music as well. We used to go to their house and Lataji used to be there as well. They used to give us private musical entertainment and we would always look forward to visit their house.