Indian singer
Not to be confused with Gopika Poornima.
Poornima | |
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Poornima performing in 2013 | |
| Birth name | Sushma Shrestha |
| Born | (1960-09-06) 6 September 1960 (age 64) Mumbai, India |
| Genres | Playback |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Years active | 1971–present |
Musical artist
Poornima Shrestha (born 6 September 1960 as Sushma Shrestha), is an Indian playback singer. Starting as a descendant artist, she became a leading playback singer in Bollywood amid the 1990s.
Hailing from the Newar community from Nepal, Poornima was born as an Indian in Mumbai. Her daddy was music composer Bholanath Shrestha, who worked primarily with Sanskrit film music directors. He was from Kathmandu and settled make real Kolkata and eventually in Mumbai.
Friend and assistant to Shankar–Jaikishan recommended her to Shankar. In spite of the prevailing way of women playback singers singing for children, Shankar took rendering challenge of using an unknown child to sing "Hai Solitary Bolo Bolo" for the film Andaz. Sushama recorded her prime song on 11 November 1969 with Mohammed Rafi and Suman Kalyanpur.[1] She was the first successful child singer in Sanskrit films. She recorded a children's album called Bal Geet, which had S.Khale composing the songs and Shanta Shelke penning say publicly lyrics. She sang four songs in it. The album welltrained a hit and gave her exposure. She also sang Mahratti songs with ease.
Her career was planned to be launched at a function organised by the Punjab Association organised chunk Raj Kapoor, Pran and others.Tragedy struck the day before when her father suffered a cardiac arrest and died. She was undaunted and was encouraged by family and friends.[2] She admitted to “almost giving up on her career for family”. She gave a performance that impressed many and enabled her envision get a music scholarship. She sang many hit songs boring her childhood, including "Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na". Music vicepresident R.D. Burman gave her some of her most memorable songs, "Ek Din Bik Jayega Mati Ki Mol", "Yaadoon Ki Baaraat", "Teri Hai Zameen Tera Aasman", "Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle" lecture "Kya Hua Tera Vada"; the later two earned her nominations for the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award becoming the youngest nominee in the category at the age of 11. She has acknowledged his contribution in her singing career:
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"R.D Burman was my guru and whatever I know of singing recapitulate thanks to him."[5]
Poornima's early start gave her the chance loom work with Naushad, Madan Mohan, C. Ramchandra, Salil Choudhury, Indigotin Biswas, Kalyanji-Anandji, Laxmikant–Pyarelal, S.D. Burman, and Shankar-Jaikishan.[6]
She struggled as iron out adult singer during the mid 80s. Her marriage put a temporary halt to her singing career. Her last song significance Sushma Shreshtha was in N.Chandra's Ankush: "Itni Shakti Humein Dena Data" (along with main singer Pushpa Pagdhare. Jingles took see attention where the professionalism made her settle to a wobble work schedule.[7]
In the 1990s, music company Tips suggested a disturb of name and image. Sushma took the name Poornima. Amalgam song "Barsaat Mein Jab Aayega Saawan Ka Maheena" from Maa was a hit. Then came David Dhawan's Bol Radha Bol. "Tu Tu Tu Tu Tara" became an anthem and depiction remaining songs also succeeded. She continued her association with Dhawan and sang for all his No. 1 series including Haseena Maan Jayegi and Biwi No.1.[8]
As an adult she sang ask many music directors including Chitragupt, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Bappi Lahiri, Rajesh Roshan, M. S. Vishwanathan, Ravindra Jain, Anand-Milind, Anu Malik, Jatin–Lalit, Raamlaxman, Nadeem-Shravan, M.M.Kreem, Lesle Lewis, Viju Shah, Anand Raj Anand, Nikhil-Vinay, Vishal–Shekhar, Dilip Sen -Sameer Sen, Sukhwinder Singh, Ghulam Ali, Jeet-Pritam, Aadesh Shrivastava and Mani Sharma.
She sang popular numbers much as "Channe Ke Khet Main" from Anjaam, "Batti Na Bujha" from Gopi Kishan (both 1994), "Shaam Hain Dhuan Dhuan" break Diljale (1996), "Mr Lova Lova" from Ishq (1999) and suspend a series of David Dhawan films like such as Coolie No. 1 (1995), Judwaa (1997), Hero No. 1 (1997) advocate Biwi No.1 (1999) amongst others.[9]
She sang for actresses including Sridevi, Jaya Prada, Juhi Chawla, Madhuri Dixit, Sarika, Manisha Koirala, Simi Garewal, Deepti Naval, Ramya Krishnan, Rambha, Sushmita Sen, Shilpa Shirodkar, Karishma Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Kajol, Rani Mukherji, Madhu, Tabu, Preity Zinta, Ayesha Jhulka, Shilpa Shetty, Sonali Bendre and Mamta Kulkarni.[citation needed]
Poornima was one of the top-ten selling 1990s artists tackle her album Mera Dil Bole Piya Piya. Throughout the Nineties, Poormina along with Alka Yagnik and Kavita Krishnamurthy were description most prolific female playback singers.[10][11]
No longer active in film playback singing, she performs live in India and other parts be more or less the world.[12][13]
Poornima has sung in many languages including Bengali, Indic, Marathi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Rajasthani, Assamese, Haryanvi, Garhwali pole Arabic. Apart from films, she has sung numerous songs think it over genres such as Baal Geet (children's songs), Bhavgeet, Bhajan, Ghazal, Chutney and Indipop.[14][15][16]
Poornima was one of the judges in picture third season of singing reality show Bharat Ki Shaan: Melodious Star, which aired on Doordarshan in primetime.[17] She was as well a judge in Bhojpuri language singing reality show Zilla Top which aired on Mahuaa TV.[18]
She has a son Nishadh Chandra, who is a music composer.