Name |
Abhijeet Bhattacharya |
Height |
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Naionality |
Indian |
Date of Birth |
30 October 1958 |
Place of Birth |
Kanpur, India |
Famous for |
Singing |
Abhijeet left home for Mumbai in 1981 to study Chartered Accountancy. Due to his fascination for singing and music, he decided to pursue a career in playback singing and quit Chartered Accountancy.
He received a call from Rahul Dev Burman to sing for Dev Anand's sons debut film.
In the 1990s, Abhijeet became playback singer. 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. Then in 1994 when he performed for movies like Yeh Dillagi, Anjaam, Raja Babu and Main Kihildi Tu Anari. He won the Filmfare Best Playback singer Award for Yes Boss in 1997. He went on to record for the movies Baadshah, Yes Boss, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Josh, Dhadkan, Chalte Chalte, Main Hoon Na and many others.
Abhijeet has given his voice for actors such as Shahrukh Khan, Sunil Shetty, Jackie Shroff, Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Govinda, Sanjay Dutt, Sunny Deol, Saif Ali Khan, Bobby Deol, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Ajay Devgan, among many others.
He was a Judge in a reality show called Star Voice of India and "Ek Se Badkhar Ek". In this show abhijeet commented on Atif Aslam that he can not sing for which he was criticised by the indian public.