playback singer A playback singer, also known as a ghost singer, is a singer whose singing is pre-recorded for use in films. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras; the actual singer does not app ...

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Mohammed Rafi Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980) was an Indian playback singer and musician. He is considered to have been one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent. Rafi was notable for his versatility and ...

Suman Kalyanpur Suman Kalyanpur (born as Suman Hemmadi;January 28th 1937) is an Indian playback singer, one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Her voice was often mistaken to be that of Lata Mangeshkar. Suman Kalyanpur's career st ...

Madan Mohan Madan Mohan is a form of the Hindu god, Krishna. Krishna is celebrated as ''Madan Mohan'', who mesmerizes everyone. His consort, Radha is glorified as Madan Mohan's ''Mohini'', who can even mesmerise Madan Mohan (her Kahn). Radha is known as th ...

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S.D. Burman Sachin Dev Burman (1 October 1906 – 31 October 1975) was an Indian music director and singer. A member of the Tripura royal family, he started his career with Bengali films in 1937. He later began composing for Hindi movies and became one o ...

, Kalyanji-Anandji and Laxmikant–Pyarelal. Poornima formed a successful collaboration with

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with such popular numbers, "Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle" from '' Aa Gale Lag Jaa'' (1973) and "Kya Hua Tera Vada" from ''

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'' (1977); both earned her nominations for the

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becoming the youngest nominee in the category at the age of 11. She made a comeback as an adult singer when music director duo Anand–Milind collaborated with her for the superhit song "Tu Tu Tara" in ''

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'' (1992). Their collaboration throughout the 1990s gave her a string of hits. She has also collaborated with many music directors in her four decades long singing career including

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, Rajesh Roshan,

M. S. Vishwanathan Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan (24 June 1928 – 14 July 2015), also known as M.S.V., was an Indian music director, singer and actor who predominantly worked in Tamil film industry. He was popularly known as ''Mellisai Mannar''. He compose ...

, Ravindra Jain, Anu Malik, Jatin–Lalit, Raamlaxman, Nadeem-Shravan, M.M.Kreem, Viju Shah, Anand Raj Anand, Nikhil-Vinay, Vishal–Shekhar and Aadesh Shrivastava. Apart from Hindi songs, Poornima has sung in many languages including Bengali, Nepali, Marathi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Rajasthani, Assamese, Haryanvi, Garhwali and Arabic. Apart from films, she has sung numerous non-film songs in various genres like ''Baal Geet'' (children's songs), ''Bhavgeet'',

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,

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,

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and

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.

Personal life

Hailing from the

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community, Poornima was born in Mumbai. Her father was music composer Bholanath Shrestha, who worked primarily with Hindi film music directors. He was from

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,

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before settling in

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and eventually in

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. She lost her father on 12 April 1971 when she was barely 11 years old. In an interaction with a

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channel, she has admitted to “almost giving up on her career for family”. She has a son Nishadh Chandra who is a music composer.

Career

She sang the hit "Hai Na Bolo Bolo" when she was just nine. She got her first break accidentally when Chandrakant Bhosle, a family friend and an assistant to Shankar–Jaikishan recommended her name to Shankar. In spite of the prevailing custom of women playback singers singing for children, Shankar took upon him the challenge of taking an unknown child to sing "Hai Na Bolo Bolo" for the film '' Andaz''. Sushama recorded her first song on 11 November 1969 with

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and

Suman Kalyanpur Suman Kalyanpur (born as Suman Hemmadi;January 28th 1937) is an Indian playback singer, one of the best-known and most respected playback singers in India. Her voice was often mistaken to be that of Lata Mangeshkar. Suman Kalyanpur's career st ...

. Rafi was very impressed by her singing. Considered as first successful child singer in Hindi films Sushma did a children's album called ''Bal Geet'', which had the legendary S.Khale composing the songs and Shanta Shelke penning them. She sang four songs in it. The album proved as huge hit and gave immense exposure to Poornima who surprised everybody by singing Marathi songs with ease. Her career was planned to be launched at a function organised by the Punjab Association organised by Raj Kapoor,

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and others. Slated to perform on 12 April 1971, tragedy struck on 11 April when her father suffered a cardiac arrest and died. She was undaunted and was encouraged by family and friends. She gave a performance, which impressed many and enabled her to get a scholarship of Rs. 250 to study music. She has sung many super hit songs in her childhood: "Tera Mujhse Hai Nata Koi", "Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na", "Yaadon Ki Baarat" are a few. Poornima is the oldest singer in terms of experience in the industry who can boast of having worked with Naushad,

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,

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and Shankar Jaikishan. Music director

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gave her some of the most memorable songs of her career, "Ek Din Bik Jayega Mati Ki Mol", "Yaadoon Ki Baaraat", "Teri Hai Zameen Tera Aasman", "Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle" and "Kya Hua Tera Vada"; the later two earned her nominations for the

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becoming the youngest nominee in the category at the age of 11. She has acknowledged his contribution in her singing career: A popular child singer through the 1970s and early 1980s, she struggled to breakthrough as an adult singer during the mid 80s. Her marriage also put a temporary halt to her singing career with regard to films as she stopped doing stage shows, which promptly dried up the offers for playback. Her last song as Sushma Shreshtha was in N.Chandra's ''Ankush'': "Itni Shakti Humein Dena Data" (along with main singer Pushpa Pagdhare – in Hindi movie Ankush filmed on

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, Nana Patekar, Suhas Palshikar and others). Jingles took her attention where the professionalism made her settle to a steady work schedule. In the 1990s, Tips, the music company approached her with an offer. Wanting to make a clean departure from the child prodigy image, they suggested a change of name and image. Sushma took the name Poornima. Her song "Barsaat Mein Jab Aayega Saawan Ka Maheena" from '' Maa'' was a hit. Few things changed till

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's ''

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''. "Tu Tu Tu Tu Tara" was nothing short of an anthem and the remaining songs, which were a success also, gave Poornima the opportunity to savour success and adulation that had eluded for long. She continued her association with Dhawan, she went on to sing for all his No. 1 series including ''

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'' and ''

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''. She has sung for many music directors including Naushad,

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,

C. Ramchandra Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar (12 January 1918 – 5 January 1982), also known as C. Ramchandra or Chitalkar or Anna Sahib, was an Indian music director and playback singer.Anil Biswas,

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, Shankar Jaikishan, Kalyanji-Anandji,

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, Laxmikant-Pyarelal,

Bappi Lahiri Bappi Aparesh Lahiri (born Alokesh Aparesh Lahiri; 27 November 1952 – 15 February 2022), also known as Bappi Da was an Indian singer, composer and record producer. He popularised the use of synthesised disco music in Indian music industry and ...

, Rajesh Roshan,

M. S. Vishwanathan Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan (24 June 1928 – 14 July 2015), also known as M.S.V., was an Indian music director, singer and actor who predominantly worked in Tamil film industry. He was popularly known as ''Mellisai Mannar''. He compose ...

, Ravindra Jain, Anand-Milind, Anu Malik, Jatin–Lalit, Raamlaxman, Nadeem-Shravan, M.M.Kreem, Lesle Lewis, Viju Shah, Anand Raj Anand, Nikhil-Vinay, Vishal–Shekhar, Dilip Sen -Sameer Sen,

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, Ghulam Ali, Jeet- Pritam, Aadesh Shrivastava and Mani Sharma. Shrestha has sung popular numbers like "Channe Ke Khet Main" from '' Anjaam'', "Batti Na Bujha" from '' Gopi Kishan'' (both 1994), "Shaam Hain Dhuan Dhuan" from '' Diljale'' (1996), "Mr Lova Lova" from '' Ishq'' (1999) and in a series of

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films like such as '' Coolie No. 1'' (1995), '' Judwaa'' (1997), ''

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'' (1997) and ''

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'' (1999) amongst others. She has sung for many actresses like

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,

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,

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, Madhuri Dixit,

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,

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, Simi Garewal, Deepti Naval,

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, Rambha, Sushmita Sen,

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, Karishma Kapoor, Raveena Tandon,

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,

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,

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,

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, Preity Zinta, Ayesha Jhulka,

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, Sonali Bendre and Mamta Kulkarni. In spite of the lacklustre Indi-pop scene in late 90s, Poornima was one of the top-ten selling artistes with her album ''Mera Dil Bole Piya Piya''. Throughout the 1990s, Shrestha along with

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and

Kavita Krishnamurthy Sharada Krishnamurthy, popularly known as Kavita Krishnamurthy or Kavita Subramaniam, is an Indian playback and classical singer. She has recorded 50,000 songs in 45 various Indian languages including Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Rajasthani, Bhojp ...

were the most prolific playback singers for heroines Not active in film playback singing, she is now doing stage shows in India and different parts of the world.

Television

She was one of the judges in third season of singing reality show '' Bharat Ki Shaan: Singing Star'', which was aired on

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in primetime. She was also a judge in Bhojpuri language singing reality show ''Zilla Top'' which aired on Mahuaa TV.

Awards and nominations

* 1973:

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- Awarded for support to educational relief * 1974:

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- Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle ( Aa Gale Lag Jaa) - Nominated * 1978:

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- Kya Huwa Tera Vada (

Hum Kisise Kum Naheen ''Hum Kisise Kum Naheen'' () is a 1977 Indian musical drama film produced and directed by Nasir Hussain. It took the third top spot at the box office in 1977. The film stars Rishi Kapoor, Tariq Khan, Kaajal Kiran, Amjad Khan and Zeenat Aman ...

) - Nominated * 1998:

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- Best Playback Singer (Female) – Sona Kitna Sona Hain (

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) - Nominated * 2017: Mohammad Rafi Award - Presented by Vice President of India * 2020: Global Film and Music Festival - Lifetime Achievement Award

Selected discography

Non-film albums

* Balgeet (Composer -

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) * Hasa Milano Hasa Baal Geete (Composer - C. Ramachandra) * Marathi Disco * Gujarati Geet * Chutney Garbar * Simply Darun * Ankh Micholi * Balma Bada Bavaali * Jaal * Bhatta Saheb * Badal * Jogan * Patanga * Shagufa * Hello Hi * Maashuka Bulbul (Composer - Lesle Lewis) * Maiya Naiyya Taar Le * Maiya Bhavani * Maa Ka Darshan * Chalo Darbar * Shudhu Monay Rekho * Chutney Garbar * Mera Dil Bole Piya Piya * Beti Chalal Sasurar * Bijuri Kaha Giri * Navrya Ghari Maajhi Lekh Chal * Sun Sharabi * Ae Samdhi Ke Bete * Abbe Daalab * Tohke Chadhaib Laal Ohaar * Goriya * Sawan Aya Re * Aartiyan

Film

References

External links

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