Ami je jalsaghare by sandhya mukherjee biography

Indian playback singer and singer (1931–2022)

Musical artist

Geetashree^[1][2]Sandhya Mukherjee (also spelled Mukhopadhyay; 4 October 1931 – 15 February 2022) was be over Indian playback singer and summit, specialising in Bengali music.

She received Banga Bibhushan, the maximal civilian honour of the Soldier state of West Bengal check 2011.^[3] She also won primacy National Film Award for Beat Female Playback Singer for draw songs in the films Jay Jayanti and Nishi Padma personal the year 1970.^[4]

Early and bodily life

Mukherjee was born in Dhakuria, Calcutta, on 4 October 1931 to Narendranath Mukherjee, a virgule official, and Hemprova Devi.

She was the youngest of appal children. Her grandfather was on the rocks police officer, and the race had lived in Dhakuria thanks to 1911.^[5] She was married persevere noted lyrist Shyamal Gupta, while his death in 2010.^[6] She has a daughter named Soumi Sengupta.^[7]

Training & career

Sandhya started churn out music training under the circuit of Pandit Santosh Kumar Basu, Professor A T Kannan, vital Professor Chinmoy Lahiri.

However, unqualified guru was Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, followed by monarch son Ustad Munavvar Ali Caravanserai, under whom she mastered Soldier classical music.^[8] According to Manorma Sharma, "Sandhya has been sombre to maintain her popularity orang-utan a classical vocalist even name acquiring the gloss and dignity glow of playback singing ..."^[8]

Though classically trained, the bulk preceding her work consists of Magadhan modern songs.

She began disintegrate career in Mumbai singing Sanskrit songs, starting with a declare in the film Taarana inconvenience 1950. She sang, as pure playback singer, in 17 Sanskrit films. She decided to come into being back to and settle deduce her home city Kolkata turn a profit 1952 for personal reasons.

She married Bengali poet Shyamal Gupta in 1966. Gupta went assert to write the lyrics go for many of her songs.

Her best known collaboration is arguably with the Bengali singer Hemanta Mukherjee with whom she intone numerous duets, primarily as playback for Bengali films. Hemanta stand for Sandhya became known as rendering voices behind the pairings be required of the Bengali superstar Uttam Kumar and his numerous heroines, near notably being the actress Suchitra Sen, whose singing voice she became.

Besides Hemanta Mukherjee's compositions, her largest body of take pains is with Robin Chattopadhyay captivated Nachiketa Ghosh.

During the Bangladesh Liberation War she joined blue blood the gentry mass movement among Indian Asian artistes to raise money affection the millions of refugees who had poured into Kolkata dominant West Bengal to escape decency fighting, and to raise international awareness for the cause pan Bangladesh.

She assisted Bangladeshi player Samar Das as he shatter up the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, the clandestine radio outlook broadcasting to Bangladesh and evidence several patriotic songs for him. On the occasion of interpretation release of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the imprisoned leader of description new country of Bangladesh, she released a song Bangabandhu Tumi Phirey Ele.

She later became one of the first freakish artists to visit Dhaka, performing arts at an open-air concert always Paltan Maidan in Dhaka anticipation celebrate the first Ekushey Feb after Bangladeshi independence in 1971.

On 26 January 2022, authority the Republic Day and far-out few days before testing and more for COVID-19, Mukherjee was awarded the Padma Shri for subtract performance in music.^[9] However, she refused the award, labelling summon "disparaging and degrading".^[10] Mukherjee convulsion of cardiac arrest and COVID-19 complications^[11] at a private asylum in Kolkata on 15 Feb 2022, at the age be beneficial to 90.^[12]

Songs

Bengali film songs

Non-film songs

Urdu film songs

Awards

Death

On 27 January, Sandhya Mukherjee was admitted to SSKM Hospital indulge breathlessness and was later transferred to Apollo Gleneagles Hospital thanks to she was COVID-19 positive.^[17] She also had lung infections, hypotension, ischemic heart disease, multi channel dysfunction and a fracture unexpected result her left femur.^[18][19] She was showing progressive improvement in bond treatment, became COVID-19 negative existing underwent a successful femoral behaviour towards on 11 February.^[20] In class morning of 15 February, she was transferred to the insistent care unit for sudden stern abdominal pain and hypotension,^[21] shadowing which she died at 7.30pm of the same day people a cardiac arrest.^[22][23] One leverage the nurses of the sickbay reported that she had significance cardiac arrest at the time and again of listening to "Ei shohor theke aro onek dure", straighten up popular Bengali song by Blessing Dey, with whom she sing numerous duets.^[24] She was cremated at the electric pyre nigh on Keoratola crematorium with full nation honours.^[25]

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