Aarti Mukherji

Aarti Mukherji is a noted female playback singer who dominated the Bengali cinema for quite some time. She was the most sought after playback singer in Bengali movies along with other playback singers like Asha Bhosle Asha is considered to be the second greatest femal >> Read More... , Geeta Dutt Geeta Dutt was a significant singer who mesmerized >> Read More... , and Lata Mangeshkar Lata Mangeshkar, the veteran playback singer, had >> Read More... . But she received national fame only after getting a chance to sing in films like Geet Gata Chal Geet Gata Chal is a musical show which gets aired >> Read More... , under Ravindra Jain Ravindra Jain was an Indian lyricist and music dir >> Read More... . She also sang for other movies like ‘Tapasya’, that was featured on Raakhee Gulzar, which was another composition from Ravindra Jain. In this film, she got a chance to sing a Hindi song with Kishore Kumar Kishore Kumar is an Indian playback singer, who ha >> Read More... . The song, ‘Do Panchhi Do Tinke’, was another popular song from the singer. Her duet song, ‘Shyam Teri Bansi Pukare’, with Jaspal Singh, was extremely popular, and her solo numbers like ‘Kar Gaya Kanha’ and ‘Main Wohi Darpan Wohi’ were extremely popular in Binaca Geetmala (a contest then played on All India Radio). 

Aarti is well trained in Indian classical music and entered playback singing through a musical contest called "Metro-Murphy Contest", where music directors like Anil Biswas Anil Krishna Biswas was an Indian playback singer >> Read More... , Naushad, Vasant Desai Vasant Desai is one of India’s most accomplished f >> Read More... and C. Ramchandra judged her. This singer always dreamt of going to Mumbai and becoming another Lata Mangeshkar. She got an opportunity to participate in the musical contest when she was just 14 years old. In 1955, she even participated in the “All India Music Talent Programme" to fulfill her dream. 

Aarti got her first break in 1958 when Hemant Kumar Hemant Mukherjee is a famous composer, singer, and >> Read More... chose her to sing for a film called ‘ Sahara Bio coming soon... >> Read More... ’ (1958), starring Meena Kumari Meena Kumari is a popular TV and film actress. She >> Read More... . She also sang for another one of Meena Kumari’s film called Do Dil Char Rahen (1959), but luck did not make it possible for her to become a successful playback singer at a tender age. So she diverted her attention to the Bengali film industry and got her first break while singing in the film, ‘Kanna', which released in 1962. Soon, she became a renowned playback singer providing screen voices for heroines like Suchitra Sen Suchitra Sen was a renowned and respected Indian f >> Read More... , Aparna Sen A vetern filmmaker and actress, Aparna Sen has bee >> Read More... , Sharmila Tagore Sharmila Tagore is a Bengali actress, who later sh >> Read More... , Madhavi Mukherjee, and Tanuja. She replaced the famous singer Sandhya Mukherjee Sandhya Mukherjee is also known as Sandhya Mukhopa >> Read More... for actresses like Tanuja and Suchitra Sen, and won many awards from the Bengali film industry. 

Aarti was the only singer who reigned the Bengali film industry along with Asha Bhosle then. She has sung many film songs with Manna Dey Manna Dey is one of the greatest Indian classical >> Read More... , Kishore Kumar, and Hemant Kumar. This singer has even given her vocal for private albums and has sung songs in many regional languages too. She was born in 1943 in Calcutta.