3 March 2021 | Bollywood Singer

Wishing Shankar Mahadevan A Wonderful 53rd Birthday

Shankar Mahadevan

Shankar Mahadevan was born on March 03, 1967 in Chembur, Mumbai into a Tamil speaking family. He learned Indian Classical Music and Carnatic music in his childhood and started playing Veena at the age of five.

Family

Shankar Mahadevan got married to Ms. Sangeetha Narayan and have 2 children named Shivam Mahadevan who is a Playback singer and Siddharth Mahadevan who ia a music composer in Bollywood. He is known for “Zinda” and the Rock Version of the title song “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’’

Music Career

Shankar Mahadevan learned Indian Classical Music and Carnatic music in his childhood and started playing Veena at the age of five. He went to OLPS High School in Chembur. He did his engineering in electronics from R.A.I.T (D Y Patil, Navi Mumbai). As of now he sings songs in Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Marathi, and Carnatic.
Graduated in 1988 with a degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology in Navi Mumbai, affiliated to Mumbai University, and was a software engineer for the company, Leading Edge. After working for Leading Edge Systems (now Trigyn Technologies Limited), Mahadevan ventured into music.
After entering in to music industry Mahadevan gave some to his composition to Chennai films.

Shankar Mahadevan also managed and got his first award as a playback singer in Chennai film music, collaborating with A. R. Rahman and winning a National Film Award for his song in “Kandukondain Kandukondain”

A.R Rahman and Shankar Mahadevan performing at changing notes in Chennai.

Shankar was noted for his first album ‘’Breathless’’ which was widely famous around the world.

Shankar- Ehsaan – Loy

Referred as Amar – Akbar – Anthony of Bollywood Industry. The trio had gave nearly 50 soundtracks to the industry and had also won many awards.

The Formation of Trio

Ehsaan was doing jingles and Loy was in Delhi before the union. Loy was writing for television then. The show Quiz Time was his first work and Siddharth Basu gave him his first break. Then he did Prannoy Roy’s The World This Week. A few more shows came along and he also did theatre and Shahrukh Khan’s Fauji. Loy had also worked as keyboardist with A. R. Rahman and Shankar had sung many famous tracks for him.

In 1989, Ehsaan met Loy, who was working for Ranjit Barot, an ad film composer. From then on, they joined together and composed several ad jingles together. Later, Ehsaan and Loy met Shankar when he was roped in by Ranjit Barot to sing for the Pepsi ad directed by Mukul Anand. Since then, they started to compose for ads as a Trio.

Notable works

Bebut work for this trio composers were Mukul Anand’s Dus. Director Anand wanted Ehsaan to compose the music for the film, but he insisted that Shankar and Loy work with him and Anand agreed. The film remained incomplete after Anand’s death, though the album was released later in 1999. After Dus, they had composed music for a couple of films like Rockford and Bhopal Express, but all of them went unnoticed. Their entry to mainstream cinema was with Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Mission Kashmir, which was a musical hit.

Shankar Mahadevan – Ehsaan – Loy rose to fame after their hit number from Dil Chahta Hain.

The turning point of their career as music directors though, was Dil Chahta Hai, which was the debut film of Farhan Akhtar as a director. Initially, A. R. Rahman was considered to do the music, but he backed out due to other assignments. Then the trio composed a title track for the film, which Farhan liked, and he signed them for the film. The film won wide critical acclaim and went on to attain cult status among audiences. This marked the beginning of the trio’s friendship with Farhan Akhtar and long-term association with Excel Entertainments.

Post Dil Chahta Hai, they composed music for several small budget films like Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai?, Nayee Padosan and Ek Aur Ek Gyarah, where all of them went unnoticed as all the movies were panned by the critics. They also had two big ventures, Honey Irani’s Armaan and Rohan Sippy’s Kuch Naa Kaho, which yet again, failed to impress both critics and audiences – though their work in Armaan was lauded by critics.

Kal Ho Naa Ho was the one of the best music of This Trio which bagged them with a National Award for best music direction of that year.

Other Projects done by them

Shankar Mahadevan – Ehsaan – Loy’s first International venture, the UK movie, West is West, was released on 18 February 2011. The music was well received by almost all the reviewers, despite the movie itself receiving reviews ranging from mixed to positive.

Other Notable work where trio made a mark of their crisp musical works and bagged their name as one of the most successful music group of Bollywood.
They have created very class and different kind of music and also sound for the Mainstream Bollywood movies.

Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Par

Rock On!!

Luck By Chance

London Dreams

Wake Up Sid

My Name Is Khan

Houseful

Tere Bin Laden

We Are Family

Zindagi Na Milegi Doobara

Other Notable Works

Shankar Mahadevan – Ehsaan – Loy have been involved in several other works except for films which include international tours and concerts across the globe. Ehsaan, Loy and Farhad had formed the band Instant Karma, and they released redone versions of R D Burman and other composers over two albums in 2002.

They have also composed music for several jingles, signature tunes for corporates including Reliance and Aircel, and public awareness campaigns. In 2010, the troika wrote music for the first ever Bollywood musical, Zangoora.

In 2011, they composed the official anthem for ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, titled De Ghuma Ke

Which became quite popular among youths and cricket enthusiasts within days of its release.

In 2004, they performed for a concert organised by The Indian Express held in celebration of the democracy of India, which was also attended by Aamir Khan, Farhan Akhtar and other celebrities. They organised a concert at IFFI titled Salaam Boss (Salute to the Boss) in 2006 paying tribute to the legendary music composer R.D. Burman. Later in 2008, they performed for the Live Earth India Concert to help light homes with solar energy along with several other celebrities like Jon Bon Jovi.

Charity Work

The Trio Shankar Mahadevan – Ehsaan – Loy have been involved in many charitable activities. They composed the music for an album Haath Se Haath Mila as the part of an AIDS Awareness campaign launched by BBC World Service Trust In 2007,

They performed in Chennai for a concert organized by The Shakti Foundation – For the Physically Challenged to raise funds.

Organized by Farhan Akhtar, they lead the Rock concert for raising funds for a Pediatrics medical camp in Bihar in 2008. They also launched the You Know You Can Rock Harder G3 Challenge talent hunt in search of the most talented rock band in the country in the same year. They had performed for a fund raising concert for the NGO Alert India which fights against leprosy in 2009.

Collaboration

Dilbaro – Harshdeep Kaur, Vibha Saraf.(Raazi)
Gallan Goodiyan – Sukhwinder Singh, Yashita Sharma, Manish Tipu (Dil Dhadakne Do)
Kajra Re – Alisha Chinai, Javed Ali (Bunty Aur Babli)
Desi Girl – Sunidhi Chauhan, Shekhar Ravjani, Vishah Dadhlani (Dostana)
Indiawaale – KK, Neeti Mohan (Happy New Year)
Phir Bhi DIl Hain Hindustani – Udit Narayan, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Dominique Cerejo (Phir Bhi Dil Hain Hindustani)
Baby Wont You Tell Me – Shweta Mohan (Sahoo)
Aao Na – Sadhana Sargam (Kyun! Ho Gaya Na)
Koi Jaye To Le Aaye – Alka Yagnik, Shankar Mahadevan (Ghatak: Lethal)

Awards By the Trio (Shankar – Ehsaan – Loy)

Filmfare Awards – Bunty Aur Babli, Kal Ho Na Ho and 2 States.

International Indian Film Academy Awards – Kal Ho Naa Ho, Bunty Aur Babli, and My Name is Khan.

Star Screen Awards – Dil Chahta Hai, Bunty Aur Babli, and My Name Is Khan.

Filmfare R.D Burman Award for New Music Talent

MTV Immies Award -2004

National Award for best music direction – Kal Ho Na Ho

Years of Excellence at the Jack Daniel’s Annual Rock Awards – Hard Rock Cafe, Mumbai

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3 March 2021 | Bollywood Singer

Wishing a Wonderful 54th Birthday to Salim Merchant

Salim Merchant

Salim Merchant born on March 03, 1974 in Mumbai, their ancestral town is Kutch, Gujarat. Inspired by his father Sadruddin Merchant. He is married to Jeanne Merchant and have a daughter named Ayesha Merchant.

Music Career

Salim Merchant had often worked along with his brother Sulaiman Merchant and they are widely regarded as Salim – Sulaiman. They have given music for a numerous Hindi movies.

Salim Merchant did his schooling from Mumbai’s St. Peter’s High School and went KC College to pursue his graduation. Salim developed an interest in music at a very young age, since father was a music director. After completing his graduation Salim enrolled himself in London’s Trinity College of Music to master the Piano.

There after he went to Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan Delhi to learn Harmonium. His Guru was Ustad Sultan Khan.

Salim Merchant has been composing songs along with his sibling, Sulaiman Merchant. They have gained popularity in the industry owing to the movies like Chak de India and Fashion

Moreover, Salim Merchant took control of Piano in his college days and mastered it. He received recognition for his work in the movie titled, Bhoot after six years of immense hard work.

Salim Merchant and Sulaiman have been composing music for over a decade having scored for movies such as Neal ‘n’ Nikki, Chak De! India, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi and Fashion. The duo had also composed for many Indi-pop performers including Viva, Aasmaan, Shweta Shetty, Jasmine and Style Bhai among others, composed and produced several TV commercials and collaborated with artistes such as Ustad Zakir Hussain and Ustad Sultan Khan.

 After that, they have gone to do movies with well-known producers and directors like Yash Chopra, Subhash Ghai and Ram Gopal Varma. They were predominantly composing background scores for movies, until the Karan Johar, Kaal, for which their song compositions received acclaim.

Salim Merchant was one of the three judges for the Fifth season of Indian Idol on Sony Entertainment Television.

In addition of his music composition he is also a great singer his famous song was Ishq Wala Love from the movie ‘Student of The Year’

They have worked on a Bollywood remix for Lady Gaga’s songs Born This Way and Judas. They also worked on I’m A Freak By Enrique.

The duo are also composing music for the Hollywood film Sold produced by Academy Award winner Jeffrey D. Brown.

2010 FIFA World Cup

After being the first Indian musicians to be nominated for an Emmy Award, for outstanding original song in the children and animation category for the animation show, The Wonder Pets, Salim-Sulaiman have another laurel in store. The duo was recently approached by a corporate body associated with FIFA, to compose a song for the upcoming FIFA World Cup, to be held in South Africa in June.

The corporate body is mostly made up of Indians, so they wanted us to compose a sports anthem for the World Cup, on the lines of Chak de India, Salim Merchant, one-half of the duo, which has composed songs for Chak De India ,Kurbaan, and Fashion, among others.

Although, initially, the duo weren’t sure about whether the song would actually be used in a big way during the World Cup, Merchant informs that recently, the main FIFA organizing body heard the song and loved it. And now, there are plans of taking the song even further.

The composer duo is now planning to get iconic Senegalese singer and Grammy Award winner, Youssou N’Dour, on board to sing the song. Youssou is the most famous African singer and they’d love nothing more than to get him to sing for them. The only unfortunate thing is that they’d have to remove Sidd’s voice from the track. If all goes well for the duo, they will also perform at the closing ceremony of the FIFA World Cup.

Famous Songs of Salim – Suleiman

Poorna: Courage Has No Limit (2017) – Arijit Singh, Vishal Dadhlani , Raj Pandit.

Janaan (2016) – Armaan Malik, Shreya Ghoshal, Bhoomi Trivedi, Iqbal M, Natasha Hay.

Jai Gangaajal (2016) – Sukhwinder Singh, Udit Narayan, Parvesh Mallick, Richa Sharma, Divya Kumar.

Wedding Pullav (2015) – Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Arijit Singh.

22 Yards (2014) – Siddhart Mahadevan, Amit Mishra, Nikitha Gandhi, Amartya Roy.

Ungli (2014) – Gulraj Singh, Neeti Mohan, Armaan Malik.

Mardaani (2014) – Sunidhi Chauhan

Kaanchi: The Unbreakable (2014) – Sonu Nigam, Ismail Darbar, Mika Singh, Neeti Mohan, Aishwarya Majmundar

Rabba Main Kya Karoon (2013) – Monali Thakur, Benny Dayal, Vidhi Sharma, Akash Chopra, Labh Janjua, Satyadev Singh.

Satyagraha (2013) – Shweta Pandit, Rahul Ram, Aadesh Shrivastava, Shraddha Pandit, Shafqat Amanat Ali

Awards

Filmfare Award for Best Background Score – Krrish
Apsara Award for Best Music Director – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
IIFA Best Background Score Award – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi
Star Screen Award for Best Background Score – Bhoot
Star Screen Award for Best Background Score – Dhoom
Zee Cine Award for Best Background Score – Ab Tak Chhappan
Syracuse International Film Festival Awards
Best Dressed Music Composers


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6 January 2021 | Indian Music Director

Wishing A.R Rahman A Wonderful 54th Birthday

A.R Rahman

Alla Rakha Rahman a.k.a A.R Rahman was born on January 6, 1966. In Madras now India is an Indian composer and singer and is regarded as one of most successful and one of the best music composers India has ever had.
Rahman’s father R.K Sekhar was very famous and prominent Score composer for Tamil and Malyalam Films and his mother, Kareema (born Kashturi)

A.R Rahman got married to Saira Banu and have 3 children with him.

A.R Rahman assisted his father in the studio, playing the keyboard. After his father’s death when Rahman was nine years old, the rental of his father’s musical equipment provided his family’s income. Raised by his mother, Kareema (born Kashturi), Rahman, who was studying in Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan had to work to support his family. Which led to him to routinely miss classes and fail exams.

Therefore, the Principal Mrs YGP summoned Rahman and his mother and told them that Rahman should focus on academics irrespective of family circumstances. Rahman attended another school called MCN for a year, and later joined Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School, where he was admitted on his music talent and formed a band with his high school classmates.

However, after discussing with his mother, A.R Rahman later dropped out of school to pursue a career as a full-time musician. Rahman was a keyboard player and arranger for bands such as Roots (with childhood friend and percussionist Sivamani, John Anthony, Suresh Peters, JoJo and Raja) and founded the Chennai-based rock group Nemesis Avenue. He mastered the keyboard, piano, synthesizer, harmonium and guitar, and was particularly interested in the synthesizer because it was the ideal combination of music and technology.

A.R Rahman began his early musical training under Master Dhanraj, and at age 11 began playing in the orchestra of Malayalam composer (and close friend of his father) M. K. Arjunan. He soon began working with other composers, such as M. S. Viswanathan, Vijaya Bhaskar, Ilaiyaraaja, Ramesh Naidu, Hamsalekha and Raj-Koti, accompanied Zakir Hussain, Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan and L. Shankar on world tours and obtained a scholarship from Trinity College London to the Trinity College of Music.

Studying in Madras, A.R Rahman graduated with a diploma in Western classical music from the school. Rahman was introduced to Qadiri tariqa when his younger sister was seriously ill in 1984.

A.R Rahman‘s mother was a practicing Hindu. At the age of 23, he converted to Islam with other members of his family in 1989, changing his name to Allah Rakha Rahman

Career

A.R Rahman initially composed scores for different documentaries and jingles for advertisements and Indian television channels. In 1987 Rahman, then still known as Dileep, composed jingles for a line of watches introduced by Allwyn. A.R Rahman also arranged the jingles for some advertisements that went on to become very popular, including the popular jingle for Titan Watches, in which he used the theme from Mozart’s Symphony no. 25.

In the year 1992 Mani Ratnam gave an opportunity to A.R Rahman in the movie “Roja” to compose the score and soundtrack for Tamil Movie

During the filming, its Cinematographer Santosh Sivan signed A.R Rahman up for the Malayalam movie Yodha, directed by his brother Sangeeth Sivan released later in September 1992.

The debut led Rahman to receive the Rajat Kamal (Silver Lotus) award for Best Music Director at the National Film Awards, an unprecedented win for a first-time film composer. A.R Rahman has since been awarded the Silver Lotus three more times for Minsara Kanavu (Tamil) in 1997, Lagaan (Hindi) in 2002, Kannathil Muthamittal (Tamil) in 2003, the most ever by any composer. Roja’s score met with high sales and acclaim in both its original and dubbed versions, led by the theme song “Chinna Chinna Aasai“

Bringing about a marked change in film music at the time. A.R Rahman has worked with Indian poets and lyricists such as Javed Akhtar, Gulzar, Vairamuthu and Vaali.

A.R Rahman has consistently produced commercially successful soundtracks when collaborating with particular film directors such as Mani Ratnam, who he has worked with since Roja, and the director S. Shankar in the films Gentleman, Kadhalan, Indian, Jeans, Mudhalvan, Nayak, Boys, Sivaji and lately for Enthiran.

In 2005, Rahman extended his Panchathan Record Inn studio by establishing AM Studios in Kodambakkam, Chennai, thereby creating the most cutting-edge studio in Asia. A.R Rahman co-scored the Shekhar Kapur project and his first British film, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, in 2007.

A.R Rahman garnered an Asian Film Award nomination for Best Composer at the Hong Kong International Film Festival for his Jodhaa Akbar score. His compositions have been sampled for other scores within India, and appeared in such films as Inside Man, Lord of War, Divine Intervention and The Accidental Husband.

In 2008, A.R Rahman scored his first Hollywood picture, the comedy Couples Retreat released the next year, which won him the BMI London Award for Best Score. A.R Rahman scored the film Slumdog Millionaire in 2008, for which he won a Golden Globe and two Academy Awards, becoming the first Asian to do so. The songs “Jai Ho” and “O…Saya” from the soundtrack of this film met with commercial success internationally.

In 2010, A.R Rahman composed scores for the romance film Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa, blockbuster sci-fi romance film Enthiran and Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours. Rahman started off the year 2011 by scoring Imtiaz Ali’s musical film Rockstar. The soundtrack became a phenomenal success and earned A.R Rahman immense critical praise.

Bollywood Music

Many successful scores for films including Dil Se and the percussive Taal followed. Sufi mysticism formed the basis of Chaiyya Chaiyya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQmrmVs10X8

For the former and the composition “Zikr” from A.R Rahman‘s score of the film Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero for which he created large orchestral and choral arrangements.

In 2008, he scored the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, for which he won a Golden Globe and two Academy Awards, becoming the first Indian citizen to do so.

In the United States, the soundtrack topped the Dance/Electronic Albums chart and reached #4 on the Billboard 200 chart. The song “Jai Ho” reached #2 on the Euro chart Hot 100 Singles and #15 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

A.R Rahman also gave a major break to many musical artists one of them is Benny Dayal , he gave him an opportunity to sing in one of his movies.

Rahman released a 19-minute orchestral composition The Flying Lotus in 2017 featuring the demonetization. This musical piece is an open interpretation of this major stance against black money which also includes Narendra Modi’s speech.

Other Works

In 2006, Rahman launched his own music label, KM Music. Its first release was his score to the film Sillunu Oru Kaadhal. Rahman scored the Mandarin language picture Warriors of Heaven and Earth in 2003 after researching and utilizing Chinese and Japanese classical music.

99 SONGS

A.R Rahman had written and Co-Produced the film 99songs which featured various artists.

The Oscars

One cannot forget mentioning about Oscar award won by this legend Rahman.
Oscar are the world’s best awards for the film and music industries.
AR Rahman with his talent and impeccable music experience had directed the Music in the movie Slumdog Millionaire (English) Slumdog Crorepati (Hindi).

International Tours of Rahman

Rahman has put his shadow all over the world not only India. Since 2004 Rahman has performed three successful world tours before audiences in Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, Dubai, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and India, and has been collaborating with Karen David on her upcoming studio album.

A two-disc CD, Introducing A. R. Rahman (featuring 25 of his Tamil film-score pieces), was released in May 2006 and his non-film album Connections was released on 12 December 2008 Rahman performed at a White House state dinner arranged by US President Barack Obama during an official visit by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 24 November 2009. He is one of over 70 artists on “We Are the World 25 for Haiti”, a charity single to raise relief funds in the wake of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

In 2010, Rahman composed “Jai Jai Garvi Gujarat” in honour of the 50th anniversary of the formation of Gujarat State,”Semmozhiyaana Thamizh Mozhiyaam” as part of the World Classical Tamil Conference 2010, and the theme song for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, “Jiyo Utho Bado Jeeto“

A.R Rahman Charity Work

Rahman is involved in various charitable causes. In 2004, he was appointed as the Global Ambassador of the Stop TB Partnership, a project by WHO. He has shown support to charities including Save the Children, India, and worked with Cat Stevens /Yusuf Islam for his song “Indian Ocean“.

The song featured a keyboard player Magne Furuholmen and Travis drummer, Neil Primrose. The proceeds of the song went towards helping orphans in Banda Aceh, one of the areas worst affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. He produced the single “We Can Make It Better” by Don Asian alongside Mukhtar Sahota.

In 2008, Rahman opened his KM Music Conservatory partnered with Audio Media Education facility to tutor and train aspiring musicians in vocals, instruments, music technology and sound design. The conservatory – with preeminent musicians on its panel and a newly founded symphony orchestra – is located near his studio in Kodambakkam, Chennai, offering courses at Beginners, Foundation and Diploma level. Rahman composed the theme music for a short film for The Banyan in 2006, in aid of destitute women in Chennai.

In 2008, Rahman, along with percussionist Sivamani created a song titled “Jiya Se Jiya“, inspired by the Free Hugs Campaign and promoted it through a video shot in various cities in India.

Famous Bollywood tracks by Rahman

Hain Rama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxqB1xUX36s&feature=emb_logo

Bombay(1995)

Taal se Taal (Taal)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEqpxQ_tB5I

Saathiyan (Saathiyan)

Yuhi Chala Chala (Swades)

Khalbali (Rang De Basanti)

Jashn-E-Bahaara (Jodha Akbar)

And who can forget…

Jai Ho (Slumdog Millionaire)

Collaboration With Other Artists

Rangeela – Hariharan, S.P Balasubramaniyan, Kavita Krishnamurthi, S. Janaki.
Dil Se – Udit Narayan, Sukhwinder Singh, Kavita Krishnamurthy.
Taal – Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Richa Sharma, Shoma, Madhu Vaishali.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose – Vijay Prakash, Sapna Mukherjee, Satyanarayan Mishra.
Rang De Basanti – Harshdeep Kaur, Daler Mehndi, Naresh Iyer, Mohammed Aslam, Mohit Chauhan, Lata Mangeshkar, Naresh Iyer.
Rockstar – Mohit Chauhan, Sapna Awasthi, Harshdeep Kaur, Javed Ali, Tanvi Shah, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Suzanne D’Mello, Clinton Cerejo.
Guru – Shreya Ghoshal, Udhai Mazumdar, Bappi Lahiri, Chinmayi Sripada, Alka Yagnik, Mohammad Aslam.
Jodhaa Akbar – Bonnie Chakraborty, Mohommad Aslam, Madhushree, Bela Shende.

Awards and Honours

Academy Awards –

Best Original Score and Best Original song – Slumdog Millionaire – 2009.

BAAFTA Award –

Best Film Music – Slumdog Millionaire

Golden Globe Award – Best Original Score – Slumdog Millionaire – 2009.

Grammy Award – Best Compilation Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media – Slumdog Millionaire – 2009.

World Soundtrack Award – The Public Choice Award – Viceroy’s House 2017.
The Public Choice Award – 127 Hours 2011.

National Film Awards –

Best Music Direction – Roja 1992

Minsara Kanavu 1996

Lagaan 2001

Kannathil Muthamittal 2002

Kaatru Veliyidai 2017

Mom 2017

 And Many More..

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26 November 2020 | Bollywood Singer

Wishing Bappi Lahiri wonderful 67th Happy Birthday

Bappi Lahiri

Alokesh Lahiri a.k.a Bappi Lahiri was born on November 27th in a Hindu Brahmin family of West Bengal in the city of Jalpaiguri, West Bengal.
His parents Aparesh Lahiri and Bansuri Lahiri were famous Bengali singers and musicians in Hindustani Classical music and Shayma Sangeet. Bappi, started playing table at the mere age of 3 and is closely related to the legendary singer Kishore Kumar, he is his maternal uncle.

Family

Bappi Lahiri got married to Chitrani Lahiri who is a Film Producer and they have a son Bappa Lahiri who is a musician and a daughter Rema Lahiri

Career

Bappi Lahiri is very famous for his Danceable music and Disco music. It was first time in Bollywood that people heard such type of Music for the very first time.
He came to Mumbai at the young age of 19. The first Hindi film for which he composed music was Nanha Shikari (1973).

The turning point of his career was Tahir Husain’s Hindi film, Zakhmee (1975), for which he composed music and doubled as a playback singer. He himself sung a duet with Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar called Nothing is Impossible for the same film.

The songs of his next film, Chalte Chalte, became a rage. With Ravikant Nagaich’s Surakshaa his singing and music became even more popular. He also scored music for many Hindi films produced in South India.


Bappi Lahiri is known for is unique style of music he pioneered the use of disco music in Indian cinema with an Indian flavor.

He also pioneered plagiarism of music in Bollywood. Most of his songs would be rendered by Kishore Kumar and Asha Bhosle.


He launched Vijay Benedict and Sharon Prabhakar into the music industry. He also used Alisha Chinoy and Usha Uthup extensively for his compositions. It appears that Bappi Lahiri used the pseudonym [Basavalingaiah Hiremath] to sing some of his songs (e.g. Bambai se aya mera dost)
Bappi had composed music for numerous of films which was a big hit during 1980s and 1990s and he had also impressed both film critics and audience too.
His music has a different types of Rhythm, music and delivery. His most famous and a legendary song “Disco Dancer” which was a sensation in 1980 and which people still remembers and will always will.


He disappeared from the Indian film industry in the 1990s. He made a brief comeback in the Prakash Mehra produced ‘Dalal’ starring Mithun Chakraborty. The song

‘Gutur Gutur’

From the film was a big hit, though it had its own share of controversies due to its suggestive lyrics.

In 2004, he brought out his album ‘Bappi Magic – The Asli Baap Mix’, featuring popular numbers such as ‘Gori Hai Kalaiyan’

and ‘Jimmy Jimmy‘

It attained great popularity. In 2005, he composed the background score for the Jahnu Barua film, ‘Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Maara’, thus reaffirming his identity as a “Very Versatile Composer”.

In 2006, he lent his voice to another composer for the first time with the song “Boombai Nagariya” which he sang for Vishal-Shekhar for the movie Taxi Number 9211.

Then, he once again lent his voice to the title track of the Mani Ratnam film ‘Guru’, in which the music was composed by A.R. Rahman.

He has also recorded songs for the movie ‘Level Crossing’ produced by actor Jayaprada.

In 2006, he appeared on the popular television show ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs’ on Zee TV as co-judge with singers Alka Yagnik and Abhijeet.

He was a judge for the 2007 edition of Zee TV’s ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’ and Sony Entertainment Television’s K For Kishore reality show that aimed to find the ‘heir apparent’ to Kishore Kumar.

In a September 2007 interview, he said, “I have films like Journey from Bombay to Goa, Jhoom, Khushboo, Mudrank, Ek Hasina Ek Dewana, Jaane Bhi Do Yaroo, Budda Mil Gaya, Bhoothnath, and, of course, the show with the Jacksons, in the pipeline”. With S. I. Tutul, he provided music for Sarkar Raj (2008).

Hindi Songs

1970s – Nanha Shikari, Bazar Band karo, Chalte Chalte Chalte, Aap ke Khatir and Surakksha.
1980s – Manokamna, Disco Dancer , Namak Halaal, Sharaabi and Himmatwala.
1990s – Ghayal, Dalaad, Rangbaaz, Rockdancer, Diya Aur Toofan, Dil Ke Jarokhe Main.
2000 – Justice Choudhary.
2011 – The Dirty Picture.
2013 – Gunday and Himmatwala.
2014 – Main Aur Mr Right.

Tamma Tamma Loge

De De Pyaar De

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R8ThdbJPAE

Inteha Hogayi Intezar Ki

Naino Me Sapna

Telugu Songs

Simhasanam
Thene Manasulu
State Rowdy
Chinna
Brahma
Rowdy Inspector
Punya Bhoomi na desam
Disco Raja

Bengali Songs

Neelanjana

Tomar Naam Likhe Debo

Pronomi Tomay

Amar Sangi

Dubbing.

Bappi Da has a very versatile voice and has already ruled our heart. He has also done various mimicry in the movies.
It includes –
Kingsman: The Golden Circle he dubbed Himself.

Moana – He dubbed the voice of Tamatoa.

Political career

Bappi Lahiri tried his luck in the Indian politics and joined the Bhartiya Janta Party which is led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 31st January 2014.
He had competed to Mr. Kalyan Banerjee from All India Trinamool Congress.

Collaboration

Bappi Da has given chances to many singers to sing for him in various movies.
Asha Bhosle – Tu Meri Manzil Me Toh Rahi Hoon Sanam, Mushkil Jeena Hain Yahaan.
Kishore Kumar – Nanha Shikari, Nanha Shikari, Zakhmee Dilon Ka Badla, Aali Re Aali Re Holi Toofan Dil Mein Liye, Jalta Hai Jiya Mera Bheegi Bheegi Raaton Mein, Chalte Chalte,
Lata Mangeshkar – Aao Tumhe Chand Pe Le Jaayen, Abhi Abhi Thi Dushmani, Dur Dur Tum Rahe, Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi.

Awards

Flimfare Awards – Best Music Director 1985, Sharaabi.

Filmfare Awards – Lifetime Achievement Award 2018.

Music Mirchi Award – Lifetime Achievement Award 2018.

Book of World Records (U.K) – Honoured Bappi Da for recording 180 songs for 33 films, most famous song “Jimmy Jimmy’’ featuring Mithun Chakraborty.

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17 November 2020 | Bollywood Singer

Wishing Zubeen Garg a Wonderful Happy 48th Birthday

Zubeen Garg

Zubeen Borthakur a.k.a Zubeen Garg born on November 18, 1972 in Tura district of Meghalaya.
Zubeen Garg was named after the famous music composer Zubin Mehta. Zubeen Garg hails from Jorhat, a small city in upper Assam. His birth name is Jibon Barthakur. He was named after the great composer Zubin Mehta and used their Gautra as his surname. Zubeen was born to Mr. Mohini M Borthakur, a famous lyricist and poet (who uses the pseudo name Kapil Thakur), and late Mrs. Ily Borthakur. However, because of transliteration discrepancies he is sometimes credited as Zubin Garg, Jubin Garg, or simply Zubin, Zubeen or Jubin and various combinations of the above mentioned.

The Borthakur family had its roots in Janji, Sivasagar. Mr. Borthakur was a magistrate and moved often during his early years along with little Zubeen. Zubeen’s mother was a good dancer, an actress and a singer. However, she never turned these talents into a professional career. Instead, she decided to teach little Zubeen at home.
Zubeen Garg considers his mother to be his first guru and mentor. Zubeen’s younger sister Jonkie Borthakur was a well-known singer and actress who died in a car accident in 2002. Zubeen’s other sister Palme, is a good Bharatnatyam dancer, presently living in Guwahati.
Zubeen lives with his wife Garima a fashion designer.

Career

Zubeen started learning his first instrument Tabla from his guru Robin Banerjee. Zubeen started learning Tabla from Guru Robin Banerjee, and then continued learning Assamese folk music form Guru Romoni Rai. He attended J.B. College in Jorhat, and then moved to B. Barooah College, where he was pursuing Bachelor of Science after his family moved permanently to Guwahati. But he did not complete his baccalaureate studies as he jumped into the music line because he had keen interest since starting of his leaning days with guru.
Zubeen Garg chose to enter in professional music career in 1992 at the mere age of 20 when his own album ‘’Anamika’’ was released.

Zubeen Garg entered in Bollywood to make a career in the year 1995, where he wanted to make a mark into Bollywood directors and people who will listen to him. He started recording few albums like – 

Chandni Raat

Fiza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOUglxbfB8w

Kaante

After that, there was no looking back for Zubeen. With about 40 albums to his name, Zubeen Garg continued his musical career directing music in over 24 Assamese movies including a few Hindi and Bangla movies as well.
Zubeen Garg considers himself to be a musician having sung more than 9000 songs in various languages including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Oriya, Bengali, Marathi, Nepali, BolPariya, Karbi, Kaasi, Tiwa and many others.
The song Ya Ali from the movie Gangster became a superhit in mainland India

https://youtu.be/YU3aasBPuFI?list=TLPQMjAxMDIwMjDNn7Nefot67g

The Middle East and across South Asia. Following the success, an album titled ‘Ya Ali Remix Blast‘ containing remix by DJ Suketu & Aks was released.
Zubeen Garg is also capable of playing 12 instruments out of which some of them are – Dhol, Drums, Guitar, Harmonium, Mandolin, Keyboard, Tabla and various other instruments.
In 2000, Zubeen wrote, directed and acted in his own Assamese film ‘’Tumi Mor Matho Mor’’. He acted, co-produced and scored music in another Assamese film Dinabandhu.

Zubeen had composed music for Strings – Bound by Faith, a Hindi film, directed by Sanjay Jha which was released in 2006.

Zubeen also gave it a shot into directing a film he had directed a Hindi – Assamese film “Mission China” the movie did not impress the critics much but had made a profit for Garg.

Pritam

Dum Maaro Dum – 2011.

Pyaar ke Side effects – 2007.

Raqeeb – 2007.

Naqaab – 2007.

Shankar – Ehsaan – Loy

London Dreams – 2009.

Jhoom Barabar Jhoom – 2007.

Anand Raj Anand

Dil Toh Deewana hain – 2016

Nehlle Pe Dehlla – 2007.

Anu Malik

Mission Istanbul – 2008.

Hastey Hastey – 2008.

ZIndaggi Rocks – 2007.

Garv – 2004.

A.R Rahman

Micromax Unite Cricket Anthem – 2015

Charity

Along with contributing to the Bollywood and Music industry, Garg is also very keen about contributing for the betterment of the society.
He has organized many events to collect funds and raise many funds to help flood affected people in Assam and helped government to help them. He has also contributed towards modernization of Assam through his charity and his Music and Movies.
He runs a Charity trust named ‘’Kalaguru Artiste Foundation’’ which donates money for various causes.

He urged people to donate Clothes, Medicines, Food and money to help flood affected people. He had also took an issue over corruption in APSC.(Assam Public Service Commission) and mention this issue in their movie called ‘’Kanchanjangha’’

He is also a Football fan to keep his body young and fit he had also organized many Football matches and played one for the charity purposes.

Music Direction

Zubeen has also worked as a Music Director in many movies in Bollywood. In his career as a music director he has mostly worked in Assamese language such has – Hiya Diya Niya, Kanyadaan, Priyan Milon, Maya, Barud, Rang.
Bengali – Sudhu Tumi, Mon Niye, Kache Acho Tumi, Samsara.
Hindi – Gangs of North East, Dil Toh Deewana Hain, Strings Bound by Faith.

Collaboration

Pritam – Dum Maaro Dum, Pyaar Ke Side Effects, Raqeeb, Naqaab, Gangster, Agnipankh, Mudda – The Issue.
Shankar – Ehsaan – Loy – London Dreams, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom.
Anand Raj Anand – Dil Toh Deewana Hain, Nehlle Pe Dehlla, Plan, Jaal:The Trap.
Anu Malik – Mission Istanbul, Hastey Hastey, Zindaggi Rocks, Garv, Aan:Men At Work.
Sameer – Krrish-3, Good Boy, Bad Boy, Life Mein Kabhie Kabhiee, Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost.
Vishal-Shekhar – I See You.
Himesh Reshammiya – OMG – Oh My God, Namastey London.
Sajid- Wajid – Hello.
A.R Rahman – Micromax Unite Cricket Anthem.
Bappi Lahiri – Its Rocking Dard E Disco, Latto & Hangover.

Awards

Zubeen Garg has bagged many awards in the industry which proves his talent and his hunger for music is genuine enough to prove that why his music was different from other mainstream music artists.

BFJA Awards for Best Playback Singer Male – “Ya Ali” 2005.
Global Indian Film Awards Best Playback Singer Male – “Ya Ali” 2007.
Stardust Awards New Musical Sensation Male – 2006.
55th National Filmfare Awards Non Feature Film Music Direction – “Ahetuk” 2009
Prag Cine Awards – Best Music Direction.
Prag Cine Awards Best Popular – Mission China – 2018

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13 November 2020 | Indian Music Director

Shravan Kumar Biography, Age, Songs, Date of Birth and Images

Shravan Kumar Biography

Shravan Rathod born on 13th November 1954, is a renowned singer, composer and Indian musician of the 1980s and 1990s. During his childhood, he had attended a recording of Kalyanji-Anandji, which had inspired him to become a music composer later in his life. He learnt Tabla when he was only 5 years of age and at the age of 7 he began giving live performances.

Family

Shravan Kumar is the son of Pandit Chhaturbhuj Rathod who was a playback singer, music director and percussionist. He was married to his former wife and has 3 children Sanjeev Kumar and Darshan Rathod.

They both work in Bollywood industry as the Duo of “Sanjeev-Darshan” His brother Roop Kumar Rathod and Vinod Rathod are also a Music Director and Playback singers in Bollywood.

sanjeev kumar and darshan rathod
roop kumar rathod

Career

Shravan Kumar started his music direction along with Nadeem Akhtar both were known as one of the most successful music directors of Bollywood during 1990s and 2000s.

shravan kumar and nadeem akhtar

Shravan Kumar and Nadeem have the strong reliance of Hindustani music in their compositions and were the only composers during the 1990s and 2000s who relied heavily on three particular instruments the Bansuri, the sitar and the Shehnai in almost all of their songs.

By using these instruments in a modern way without disconnecting them from their original value, their contribution is unique compared to some rising music directors evolving a new music style beginning in the mid-1990s.

The association of Nadeem Saifi Ashfaq and Shravan dates back to 1973 when they met each other at a function. Shravan Kumar and Nadeem’s first film assignment was Dangal, a Bhojpuri movie in 1973 (released in 1975).


Their first Hindi movie assignment was ‘’Maine Jeena Seekh Liya’’in 1981 sung by Amit kumar.

In 1989, Shravan Kumar three big movies were released: Ilaaka, Hisaab Khoon Ka and Lashkar.

In 1985, the duo composed music for a commercial project called Star Ten. Ten Hindi actors (Mithun, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Sachin, Danny, Vijendra, Sulakshana Pandit, etc.) sang some songs with lyrics by Anwar Saagar.

  • Anil Kapoor, Vajaita Pandit – Bar Bar Telephone
  • Jackie Shroff – Kashmir Se Kaniya Kumar
  • Yunh Dhoop Mein – Danny, Kalapna
  • Kal Bas Ke Intizar – Shailendra Singh
  • Aaj Ki Raat Na Ghar – Vijayndra, Kajal Kiran
  • Disco Ki Bimari Ayee – Sachin & Chorus
  • Angoori Paani Chhad Gaya – Mithun Chakraborty

Shravan Kumar‘s breakthrough soundtrack album was Aashiqui (1990), which sold 20 million units in India (which was the highest selling copies of that era) and became the best-selling Bollywood soundtrack album of all time.

Nadeem – Shravan Kunar were also behind many of the other best-selling Bollywood soundtrack albums of the 1990s. Their success helped establish the music label T-Series.

nadeem and shravan albums

The specialty that the duo possesses is that all of their works have done majorly using three particular Hindustani instruments, namely, the Shehnai, the sitar and the Bansuri. Their songs were sung by many singers but mostly by the Ever Green Trio – Alka Yagnik, Udit Naryan and Kumar Sanu.

Alka Yagnik, Udit Naryan and Kumar Sanu

When Pardes soundtrack was released, the tracks had different varieties of songs “I Love My India” and “Meri Mehbooba”.

Love songs “Do Dil Mil Rahe Hain“

Dissolving Career

In 2005, Shravan Kumar and Nadeem decided to part ways. As it is noticed the irony of this duo and the film they had worked last. The Film they had worked last was named “Dosti” and then this iconic duo decided to part their ways as a result it was their last movie together. Nadeem started his own perfume and bag company and was also involved in solo compositions.

Shravan Kumar was uninterested in continuing with his music, and instead focused on the music careers of his sons (Sanjeev–Darshan) and movie production.

Another reason cited is probably the growing distance between the two. In an interview, Nadeem stated that there wasn’t any conflict between him and Shravan.

In late 2013 it was announced that the duo would work together again on the sequel of Deewana but they later split due to personal conflicts again as a result of which Nadeem decided to return as a solo composer for Ishq Forever in 2015.

Comeback of Nadeem(only)

In the year 2016, Nadeem Saifi-Akhtar made his comeback with lyricist Sameer (lyricist) in the film Ishq Forever. He has split with his partner Shravan and worked on the film as a solo composer.

The film features ten songs. In the year 2017 to continue his musical carrier in the film Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana Tha as a solo composer and film is produced and directed by Suneel Darshan.

Collaboration

Shravan along with Nadeem has collaborated with many singers for their movies –

  • Kumar Sanu – Aap Ki Yaadein , Jo Pyar Kar Gaye, Teri Mohobbat Mein, Raatein Hain Iqrar ki, Teri Judaai Mein, Yeh Baharein Yeh Nazarein.
  • Anuradha Paudwal – Aap se Acchi Aapki Yaadein Hain, Chahe Dunia, Chahe Toofan, Qayamat Aa Jaye, Pal Din Mahine Kayi Saal Hogaye.
  • Kavita Krishnamurthy – Paas Reh Kar Bhi Koi Paas Na Ho.
  • Alka Yagnik – Tumse Mili Thi College Me, Meri Tamanna Hain Me Amitabh, Hawa Ne Ye Paigham, Khuda Aap Ko Nazar, Pyaar Hua Hain Abhi, Ye Koi Baat Nahi, Aapki Soorat Pe, Tujhko Ghazal Kahoon.
  • Sonu Nigam – Hum The Tum The, Ishq Na Mange, Aye Dil Ye Batein,
  • Sunidhi Chauhan – O Jaane jaan

Awards

Nadeem and Shravan Kumar had won hearts and soul of millions of people of the country with their remarkable music production.


By the theme and type of music they used to produce it was beautiful enough to leave a mark on the critics who are responsible to choose who the awards should be given.

  • Filmfare Best Music Director Award – Aashiqui 1991
  • Filmfare Best Music Director Award – Saajan 1992
  • Filmfare Best Music Director Award – Deewana 1993
  • Special Award London for “Raja” – Raja 1996
  • Filmfare Best Music Director Award – Raja Hindustani 1997
  • Star Screen Best Music Director Award – Raja Hindustani 1997
  • Star Screen Best Music Director Award – Pardes 1998
  • Zee Cine Best Music Director – Raaz.
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29 October 2020 | Bollywood Singer

Wishing Abhijeet A Wonderful 62nd Birthday

Abhijeet Bhattacharya

Abhijeet Bhattachaya a.k.a Abhijeet was born in Kanpur city of Uttar Pradesh. He was born in a Bengali family. His father was a businessman who turned into an editor Mr.Dhirendranath Bhattacharya.
Dhirendranath Bhattacharya had four sons out of which ABhijeet was the youngest.
He got married to a beautiful fashion designer Sumati Bhattacharya and has two sons namely Jay Bhattacharya and Dhruv Bhattacharya.

Career

He was willing to become a Chartered Accountant after completing his graduation in B.com in Christ Church College, Kanpur and to do the Chartered Accountant course he moved to Mumbai in 1981.

But he did not had any interest in finance career he was intended to make her career as a playback singer.

In those struggling days, he even did some small clerical jobs just to manage his expense and to make his survival in Mumbai.
One fine day he received a call from Rahul Dev Burman to sing in a film called ‘’Anand and Anand’’ which marked his debut film.
Interestingly this film also had Bollywood superstar Dev Anand and he had sung this song along with Asha Bhosale, Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar.
Although the film was a big hit Abhijeet did not make any mark in the Bollywood.

And later he struggled for 6 years straight. After so much of struggling and searching for work he got his Bollywood break from Salman Khan starring film Baghi which was composed by legendary composers Anand Milind.

After releasing of this movie and song he became people’s favourite and started receiving offers and opportunities from the music directors along with Kumar Sanu and Udit Narayan.

Working with Jatin-Lalit

His hit numbers with the music director duo “Jatin & Lalit” which became biggest hit like-
Yeh Teri Aankhen Jhunki Jhunki

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPeStSJEFT4

Wada Raha Sanam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WUBR_GJzjg

Chaand Taare

Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzlXfZlH5dk

Zaara Sa Jhoom Loon Main

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjUTs76Gnks

Tauba Tumhare Yeh Ishare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFibazGpBiI

Chalte Chalte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkOakcMqJ-8

Dil Ka Jo Haal Hai.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuoFZtVgo_A

During 1990s when people were enjoying music and voices of two of the diamonds of Bollywood melodies Kumar Sanu and Udit Narayan people also started liking the voice of Abhijeet .
Due to his immense popularity he received many opportunities to show his magic such as-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUU-cub6E10

Ole Ole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcCvSmjHwGY

Abhijeet Bhattacharya gave his voice for so many Shahrukh Khan’s movies that he became the signature voice for him.
Some notable Abhijeet- Shahrukh songs include-
• Tumhe Jo Maine Dekha (Main Hoon na)
• Who Ladki jo (Baadshah)
• Roshni se (Alfaaz)
• Baadshah O Baadshah (Baadshah)
• Kuch toh Bata (Phir Bhi Dil Hain Hinsutani)
• Zinda hain hum toh (Josh)
• Ladna Jhagadna (Duplicate)
• Zara Sa Jhoom loon me (Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge)
He had also given his voice in some of the movies which had Govinda as a lead actor,
As we all know that Govinda, in his maximum movies is famous for comic roles and funny characters. Directors during those time found Abhijeet’s voice perfect to go with Govinda’s songs.
Some of the songs include –

Mera Dil Naa Todo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdE3R8ojF5w

Husn Hain Suhana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZnyTYzYGMM

Main Laila Laila

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI1PzQUZarg

Dil Tera Hain Diwana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDfATkCdR9g

Working with Anand-Milind

Journey of Abijeet and Anand- Milind began from the film Baghi in which he gave remarkable perfomace.

Along with Shahrukh khan and Govinda, Abhijeet gave his voice to many big stars like Ajay Devgn, Hritik Roshan, Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan, Sunil Shetty.

He also impressed some of the popular music directors as 90s duo of Bollywood such as Dilip – Sameer, Jatin – Lalit and more.
He had also worked as a Chorus singer for Legendary Ghazal singer Jagjit Singh and Rajesh Roshan.
Abhijeet Bhattacharya made a song to dedicate it to all the Legendary singers and Music Composers like JAGJIT SINGH who was an inspiration for him, because of which he felt motivated.
He wanted to make a song in a way to thank these legends who help him find the steps in Bollywood to reach at the top.
Song Name – Salute to Legends
Singer – Abhijeet Bhattacharya.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbyXBNuR7oc

Recent appearance.

After a 5 years of self-imposed exile, in 2018 he came back with back to back chartbusters with Bengali Superstars. He sang Title track of “Bhaijaan Elo”

with Shakib Khan and Sujon Majhi Re from Hoichoi Unlimited with Dev. Also he sang for new age Music Composer Vishal Mishra who composed the song Aye Zindagi where the music video featured Siddhant Gupta.

Abhijeet also crooned Joy Durga Maa composed by Jeet Ganguli which is a duet with Shaan. The video featured former Indian Cricket Captain Sourav Ganguly and Tollywood Star Mimi, Nusrat and Shubhasree.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E_qefwPA0E

In May 2019, Abhijeet Released Chakde Fatte which is the Cricket World Cup Song for 2019. The song is well appreciated by listeners.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AG5ntnwkeA

Song name – Jeet ke Lana hain.

Song by Abhijeet Bhattacharya.

Non Bollywood music.

Abhijeet has recorded many non-film pop music Albums. He released two albums-
Main Deewana Hoon, which include songs like –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoTmTPWbKuA

Tapori No.1 –
Hey Janu,
Goa Aana,
Tu Chalu hain re,
Uddi uddi DIl Mera
Hath Lagake Dekh
Ek Paon Rail mein,
She’s my life.
Later he launched Aashiqui.
“Koi Lauta De woh”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLo1bUgPcPQ

was a big hit track from that album.
He released a pop album, called Tere Bina in (2003).
Which Was a Big Hit and still much popular to audience.

People were really impressed to hear his non Bollywood songs was really in love with his new albums.
With all his hard work and dedication which resulted in his stardom he was able to bag that he got MTV Music Asia Award for that Album. “Kabhin Yaadon Mein Aaon” is a Hit Song of all time from that album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrIkUBI_37I

On 3 May 2006, he released another non-film album called Lamhe. In 2014, he released his album titled AB consist of Seven Songs, penned by Sameer. He also released Bengali pop albums and Tagore song albums.

Recently he recorded a new song with June Banerjee at T-Series Studio in September 2016.
That will be his Pop song collaboration with T-Series after a Decade.In 2018 he recorded a song named “Aye Zindagi” with new age Music Composer Vishal Mishra, The song released worldwide in 6 versions. Others are voiced by Sonu Nigam, Asha Bhosle, Shaan, Alka Yagnik, Suresh Wadhkar.

In 2019 Abhijeet came back with two melodious track “Cheers to Team India’ a motivational track for Team India on CWC 2019, and “Papa Bandook Dila Do’ in respect for Kargil War Martyrs.

Both the song Music Composed by himself. Abhijeet also released 10 Bengali Pop solo albums including Two Full Tagore songs albums named “Shei Bhalo Shei Bhalo”, “Oi Asontoler”. Latest are “Pranta Juraiya Gelo Re” (2013), “Chai Chai Tumi Ami” (2014).
In total Abhijeet Bhattacharya has sung nearly 6000 songs in his successful career.
Many of his iconic songs are now being remade by new age composers such as
Tan Tana Tan- Judwaa 2
Sheher Ki Ladki – Khandaani Shafakhana.
In 2020 his first released song came for the Movie Shukranu, a 70’s feel like song “Khwaab hai ya haqeqaat” duet with Indian Idol fame Krishnakali Saha released from Zee Music Company.

Other Awards Won by Abhijeet

Filmfare Best Male Playback Singer – Mein Koi Aaisa Geet Gau 1998.
Screen Award for Best Male Playback Singer 1988

Honours

Uttar Pradesh Gaurav Samman.

Yash Bharati Samman 2013.

Sangeet Maha Samman 2015.

Vishesh Samman (by West Bengal Government) 2017.

Vikramaditya Award 2018.

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