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Abhijeet Bhattacharya or Abhijeet Dhirendranath is better known as Abhijeet, is a Bollywood playback singer born to a successful businessman turned editor, Dhirendranath Bhattacharya and his wife Kamladevi Bhattacharya in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He married a fashion designer Sumati Bhattacharya in 1990 and has two sons Dhruv Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Jai Abhijeet Bhattacharya. Abhijeet began his Bollywood career formally in 1990 with the film Baaghi. He has sung songs in more than 18 languages including Bengali, Odia, Bhojpuri, Marathi, and Gujarati. He won Filmfare Award in 1997. He has also released many Indian pop albums. He has also judged popular Indian reality shows like Indian Idol and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs several times. Abhijeet left home for Mumbai in 1981 to study Chartered Accountancy. After completing a degree in CA during Internship, due to his fascination for singing and music, Bhattacharya decided to pursue a career in playback singing.
After struggling for food, shelter, and work for more than two years in Mumbai, he received a call from Rahul Dev Burman whom he considers as his Godfather, to sing for Dev Anand’s son’s debut film Anand Aur Anand in 1984. This was his debut film and in his very first movie, he got the opportunity to sing a song along with his idol Kishor Kumar, Asha Bhonsle, and Lata Mangeshkar. Despite successful music, the film didn’t do well at the box office and Abhijeet’s career failed even before getting started and he had to struggle again for further 6 years until 1990 when composer duo Anand-Milind reintroduced him in Salman Khan starred “Baaghi”.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Abhijeet became one of the top choices among the music directors along with Kumar Sanu and Udit Narayan. His songs include work from the film Baaghi, composed by Anand-Milind: “Ek Chanchal Shokh Hasina”,” “Chandni Raat Hai” and “Har Kasam Se Badi Hai”. This was followed by several chartbusters from movies such as Khiladi, Shola Aur Shabnam both of which were also box office hits. Then in 1994, he performed for movies like Yeh Dillagi (“Ole Ole”), Anjaam, Raja Babu, and Main Khiladi Tu Anari. He won the Filmfare Best Playback Singer Award for Yes Boss in 1997. He went on to record for the movies Baadshah, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Josh, Dhadkan, Raaz, Tum Bin, Chalte Chalte, Main Hoon Na, Dil Se Pooch Kidhar Jaana Hai, and many others. Grahan (2004) has two songs sung by him: “Kehte Hai Jis Ko” and “Chup Chup” with Kavita Krishnamurty and Asha Bhosle, respectively.
In a career spanning over two decades, he went behind the microphone to lend his voice to the portrayals of Bollywood stars including Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Salman Khan, Suniel Shetty, Hrithik Roshan Ajay Devgan, Akshay Kumar, Akshaye Khanna, Sanjay Dutt, and Ranbir Kapoor, and rendered his voice in a range of genera from romantic and emotional songs to Peppy songs such as “Badi Mushkil Hai” “Roshni Se” and “Mere Khyaloon Ki Malika” and fun numbers like “Ole Ole”, “Tan Tana Tan” and “Jab Tak Rahega Samosa Mein Aloo”. Abhijeet has worked with veteran music directors like R.D. Burman, Bappi Lahiri, and Laxmikant Pyarelal. Most of his popular songs are composed by Anu Malik, Jatin Lalit, Nadeem Shravan, A R Rahman, Aadesh Shrivastava, and Anand Milind. Abhijeet also holds the record of singing and recording the longest song of 18 minutes in the studio.
Abhijeet has sung duets with many female singers like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Sadhana Sargam, Anuradha Paudwal, Kavita Krishnamurthy, K.S. Chithra, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal, and Akriti Kakar. Abhijeet has sung maximum duets with Alka Yagnik.
Abhijeet is considered by the audience and admirers of both Abhijeet and SRK to be the voice of Shah Rukh Khan since they first collaborated in 1994 for the song Badi Mushkil Hai from Anjaam. Abhijeet voiced a number of songs of Shah Rukh Khan during the 1990s including Yes Boss, Chalte Chalte, Baadshah, and Main Hoon Na. But due to disappointment when the singer's name was at the last in end credits of Main Hoon Na and again in Om Shanti Om (2007), they parted ways. Abhijeet last sang for Shah Rukh Khan in the movie Billu Barber (2009) for the song Khudaya Khair which was their last collaboration and the song was not picturized because of Abhijeet’s insistence on not to film his version of the song. Therefore, another was created for picturization.
The composer duo Jatin-Lalit have collaborated with Abhijeet on numerous occasions to give him some of his biggest hits such as “Wada Raha Sanam” from Khiladi, “Yeh Teri Aankhen Jhunki Jhunki” from Fareb, “Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaon” and “Chaand Taare” from Yes Boss, “Zaara Sa Jhoom Loon Main” from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, “Aur Kya” from Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, and “Tauba Tumhare Yeh Ishare” “Suno Na Suno Na” and “Chalte Chalte” from Chalte Chalte.
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