Besides Hemanta Mukherjee's compositions, her largest body of work is with Robin Chattopadhyay and Nachiketa Ghosh.ĭuring the Bangladesh Liberation War she joined the mass movement among Indian Bengali artistes to raise money for the millions of refugees who had poured into Kolkata and West Bengal to escape the fighting, and to raise global awareness for the cause of Bangladesh.

Hemanta and Sandhya became known as the voices behind the pairings of the Bengali superstar Uttam Kumar and his numerous heroines, most notably being the actress Suchitra Sen, whose singing voice she became. Her best known collaboration is arguably with the Bengali singer Hemanta Mukherjee with whom she sang numerous duets, primarily as playback for Bengali films. Gupta went on to write the lyrics for many of her songs. She married Bengali poet Shyamal Gupta in 1966. She decided to come back to and settle in her home city Kolkata in 1952 due to personal reasons. She sang, as a playback singer, in 17 Hindi films. She began her career in Mumbai singing Hindi songs, starting with a song in the film Taarana in 1950. Though classically trained, the bulk of her work consists of Bengali modern songs. According to Manorma Sharma, 'Sandhya has been able to maintain her popularity as a classical vocalist even after acquiring the gloss and the glow of playback singing. However, her guru was Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, followed by his son Ustad Munavvar Ali Khan, under whom she mastered Indian classical music. Sandhya started her music training under the direction of Pandit Santosh Kumar Basu, Professor A T Kannan, and Professor Chinmoy Lahiri. JSTOR ( November 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Contentious material about living people that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately.įind sources: 'Sandhya Mukherjee' – news This section of a biography of a living person does not include any references or sources.

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