Indrani Sen
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Indrani Sen is a Bengali singer who is known for
Nazrul geeti Nazrul Sangeet ( bn, নজরুল সঙ্গীত), also Nazrul Geeti ( bn, নজরুল গীতি; ), refers to the songs written and composed by Kazi Nazrul Islam, the national poet of Bangladesh. Nazrul Geeti incorporate revolut ...
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Rabindra Sangeet ''Rabindra Sangeet'' ( bn, রবীন্দ্র সঙ্গীত; ), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in ...
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Early life

Indrani Sen is the daughter of singer Sumitra Sen, and her younger sister is Srabani Sen. Her earliest singing was done under her mother's guidance; she then attended Bengal Music College at the University of Calcutta, and was later trained by Debabrata Biswas in classical and Purabi Dutta in Nazrul geeti. She is also the head of the department of economics at Women's College,Calcutta in Kolkata. Her mother, Sumitra Sen died on 3 January 2023 at the age of 89.


Awards & achievements

She won BFJA's Best Female Playback Award- 1993 for the film ''Shwet Patharer Thala'' and BFJA's Best Female Playback Award- 1995 for the film ''Sandhya Tara''. She is a playback singer for Hindi films, Bengali films and T. V serials, and the recipient of several awards, including Banga Bhushan from the Government of West Bengal. Sen performed at the joint India and Bangladesh celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of Nobel laureate
Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He resh ...
at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC), High Commission of India in 2012.


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* Indian women classical singers Performers of Hindu music Singers from Kolkata Bengali singers Bengal Music College alumni University of Calcutta alumni Living people Rabindra Sangeet exponents Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Indian women singers 20th-century Indian singers Women musicians from West Bengal 20th-century women composers {{India-singer-stub