Abhijeet Bhattacharya

Abhijeet Bhattacharya
Abhijeet Bhattacharya at Telly Chakkar's New Talent Awards 2011
Background information
Native name	অভিজিৎ ভট্টাচার্য
Birth name	Abhijeet
Born	Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Genres	Bollywood, regional film playback
Occupation(s)	Singer, composer and businessman (real estate)
Instruments	Vocals
Years active	1982–present

Abhijeet Bhattacharya, better known as Abhijeet, is a Bollywood playback singer. He has sung songs in more than 15 languages including Bengali, Odia, Bhojpuri, Marathi and Gujarati. He has won one Filmfare Award in 1997. He has also released Indian pop albums.

Abhijeet was born in a Bengali family in Kanpur, UP, the youngest of four brothers. At home and among friends he was fondly known as 'Babu'. He passed his matriculation from Ramakrishna Mission Higher Secondary School, Kanpur and Class XII from BNSD Inter College, Chunni Ganj, Kanpur and graduated in commerce (B.Com.) from Christ Church College, Kanpur in 1977. He has been singing on stage since 1970. He developed his voice and style of singing by listening to songs by prolific singer such as Kishore Kumar.

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 instead.

He received a call from Rahul Dev Burman to sing for Dev Anand's son's debut film Anand Aur Anand. In this movie, he got the opportunity to sing a song along with his idol Kishor Kumar.

In the 1990s, Abhijeet became one of the choice 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.