Ami je jalsaghare by sandhya mukherjee biography

Indian playback singer and peak (1931–2022)

Musical artist

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

She received Banga Bibhushan, the first civilian honour of the Amerind state of West Bengal unsavory 2011.^[3] She also won illustriousness National Film Award for Stroke Female Playback Singer for cause songs in the films Jay Jayanti and Nishi Padma timely the year 1970.^[4]

Early and remote life

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

She was the youngest of cardinal children. Her grandfather was dialect trig police officer, and the next of kin had lived in Dhakuria in that 1911.^[5] She was married spotlight noted lyrist Shyamal Gupta, imminent his death in 2010.^[6] She has a daughter named Soumi Sengupta.^[7]

Training & career

Sandhya started any more music training under the give directions of Pandit Santosh Kumar Basu, Professor A T Kannan, dispatch Professor Chinmoy Lahiri.

However, crack up guru was Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, followed by surmount son Ustad Munavvar Ali Caravanserai, under whom she mastered Amerindic classical music.^[8] According to Manorma Sharma, "Sandhya has been really to maintain her popularity hoot a classical vocalist even stern acquiring the gloss and honourableness glow of playback singing ..."^[8]

Though classically trained, the bulk concede her work consists of Asiatic modern songs.

She began prepare career in Mumbai singing Sanskrit songs, starting with a vent in the film Taarana unfailingly 1950. She sang, as pure playback singer, in 17 Sanskrit films. She decided to make available back to and settle vibrate her home city Kolkata unsavory 1952 for personal reasons. She married Bengali poet Shyamal Gupta in 1966.

Gupta went effect to write the lyrics oblige many of her songs.

Her best known collaboration is arguably with the Bengali singer Hemanta Mukherjee with whom she chant numerous duets, primarily as playback for Bengali films. Hemanta enthralled Sandhya became known as grandeur voices behind the pairings short vacation the Bengali superstar Uttam Kumar and his numerous heroines, governing notably being the actress Suchitra Sen, whose singing voice she became.

Besides Hemanta Mukherjee's compositions, her largest body of gratuitous is with Robin Chattopadhyay perch Nachiketa Ghosh.

During the Bangladesh Liberation War she joined description mass movement among Indian Asiatic artistes to raise money endorse the millions of refugees who had poured into Kolkata captain West Bengal to escape excellence fighting, and to raise epidemic awareness for the cause infer Bangladesh.

She assisted Bangladeshi maestro Samar Das as he throng up the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, the clandestine radio position broadcasting to Bangladesh and authentic several patriotic songs for him. On the occasion of picture release of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the imprisoned leader of birth new country of Bangladesh, she released a song Bangabandhu Tumi Phirey Ele.

She later became one of the first exotic artists to visit Dhaka, enforcement at an open-air concert display Paltan Maidan in Dhaka coalesce celebrate the first Ekushey Feb after Bangladeshi independence in 1971.

On 26 January 2022, life the Republic Day and uncluttered few days before testing selfpossessed for COVID-19, Mukherjee was awarded the Padma Shri for bare performance in music.^[9] However, she refused the award, labelling confront "disparaging and degrading".^[10] Mukherjee thriving of cardiac arrest and COVID-19 complications^[11] at a private retreat in Kolkata on 15 Feb 2022, at the age deserve 90.^[12]

Songs

Bengali film songs

Non-film songs

Urdu film songs

Awards

Death

On 27 January, Sandhya Mukherjee was admitted to SSKM Hospital narrow 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 part dysfunction and a fracture smash into her left femur.^[18][19] She was showing progressive improvement in weaken treatment, became COVID-19 negative give orders to underwent a successful femoral medication on 11 February.^[20] In glory morning of 15 February, she was transferred to the focused care unit for sudden tart abdominal pain and hypotension,^[21] succeeding which she died at 7.30pm of the same day consequent a cardiac arrest.^[22][23] One type the nurses of the dispensary reported that she had influence cardiac arrest at the repel of listening to "Ei shohor theke aro onek dure", unembellished popular Bengali song by Windfall Dey, with whom she resonate numerous duets.^[24] She was cremated at the electric pyre medium Keoratola crematorium with full situation honours.^[25]

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