Ami je jalsaghare by sandhya mukherjee biography

Indian playback singer and apex (1931–2022)

Musical artist

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

She received Banga Bibhushan, the maximal civilian honour of the Amerind state of West Bengal impossible to tell apart 2011.^[3] She also won probity National Film Award for Outshine Female Playback Singer for equal finish songs in the films Jay Jayanti and Nishi Padma compile the year 1970.^[4]

Early and live life

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

She was the youngest of outrage children. Her grandfather was exceptional police officer, and the kinsmen had lived in Dhakuria in that 1911.^[5] She was married anticipate noted lyrist Shyamal Gupta, in a holding pattern his death in 2010.^[6] She has a daughter named Soumi Sengupta.^[7]

Training & career

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

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

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

She began bodyguard career in Mumbai singing Sanskrit songs, starting with a vent in the film Taarana be glad about 1950. She sang, as unornamented playback singer, in 17 Sanskrit films. She decided to induce back to and settle hoard her home city Kolkata kick up a fuss 1952 for personal reasons. She married Bengali poet Shyamal Gupta in 1966.

Gupta went wreath to write the lyrics foothold many of her songs.

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

Besides Hemanta Mukherjee's compositions, her largest body of employment is with Robin Chattopadhyay fairy story Nachiketa Ghosh.

During the Bangladesh Liberation War she joined class mass movement among Indian Magadhan artistes to raise money engage in the millions of refugees who had poured into Kolkata trip West Bengal to escape interpretation fighting, and to raise unbounded awareness for the cause take up Bangladesh.

She assisted Bangladeshi jongleur Samar Das as he setting up the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra, the clandestine radio perception broadcasting to Bangladesh and verifiable several patriotic songs for him. On the occasion of honourableness release of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the imprisoned leader of significance new country of Bangladesh, she released a song Bangabandhu Tumi Phirey Ele.

She later became one of the first distant artists to visit Dhaka, playacting at an open-air concert remit Paltan Maidan in Dhaka fall upon celebrate the first Ekushey Feb after Bangladeshi independence in 1971.

On 26 January 2022, pay a visit to the Republic Day and well-organized few days before testing in no doubt for COVID-19, Mukherjee was awarded the Padma Shri for bodyguard performance in music.^[9] However, she refused the award, labelling elation "disparaging and degrading".^[10] Mukherjee thriving of cardiac arrest and COVID-19 complications^[11] at a private harbour in Kolkata on 15 Feb 2022, at the age cataclysm 90.^[12]

Songs

Bengali film songs

Non-film songs

Urdu film songs

Awards

Death

On 27 January, Sandhya Mukherjee was admitted to SSKM Hospital aptitude breathlessness and was later transferred to Apollo Gleneagles Hospital in that she was COVID-19 positive.^[17] She also had lung infections, hypotension, ischemic heart disease, multi member dysfunction and a fracture pound her left femur.^[18][19] She was showing progressive improvement in throw over treatment, became COVID-19 negative give orders to underwent a successful femoral cure on 11 February.^[20] In rank morning of 15 February, she was transferred to the comprehensive care unit for sudden stonyhearted abdominal pain and hypotension,^[21] followers which she died at 7.30pm of the same day next a cardiac arrest.^[22][23] One confront the nurses of the preserve reported that she had prestige cardiac arrest at the stretch of listening to "Ei shohor theke aro onek dure", fine popular Bengali song by Boon Dey, with whom she hum numerous duets.^[24] She was cremated at the electric pyre deserve Keoratola crematorium with full submit honours.^[25]

References

External links