Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 20 October 1957), professionally known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer. He is known as the King of Melody in Bollywood. He is famous for singing thousands of Bollywood Hindi super hit songs. Also as one of the most successful playback singers of 90s era of Bollywood. Apart from Hindi, he has also sung in other languages including Bengali, Marathi, Nepali, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Manipuri, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi, Odia, Chhattisgarhi, Urdu, Pali, English and his native language Bengali, both in West Bengal and Bangladesh. He holds the record for winning five consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer from 1991 to 1995. He holds the Guinness Book of world records since 1993 for recording the maximum number of songs in a single day.
For his contribution to Indian cinema and music, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009 by the Government of India. Many of his tracks feature in BBC’s “Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time”.
Early life
Kumar Sanu’s father, Pashupati Bhattacharya, was a vocalist and composer, his ancestral home and birth place was Vikrampur near Dhaka (now in Bangladesh). He moved to Calcutta in search of livelihood and Kumar Sanu was born in Calcutta. The two and Sanu’s elder sister lived in the Sinthee area of Calcutta (now Kolkata) near Biswanath Park. Kumar Sanu lived at Panchanan tala at Gopal Bose Lane in Sinthi area at North Kolkata.
Career
Main article: Kumar Sanu discography and filmography
Sanu started his playback career as Sanu Bhattacharya from 1983. In 1986, he was in the Bangladeshi film Teen Kanya,[5] directed by Shibli Sadiq. He had his first major Bollywood song in Hero Hiralal (1988).
In 1989, Jagjit Singh introduced Sanu to Kalyanji in Vimal Bunglow, Mumbai. On their suggestion, Sanu changed his early name from “Sanu Bhattacharya” to “Kumar Sanu” after his idol Kishore Kumar. Sanu then relocated to Mumbai, where Kalyanji-Anandji gave him a chance to sing in the film Jaadugar.
For the 1990 film Aashiqui, Sanu sang all but one of the songs. He won the first of his record five consecutive Filmfare Awards as Best Male Playback Singer. His next Filmfare Awards came for songs in the movies Saajan (1991), Deewana (1992), Baazigar (1993) and 1942: A Love Story (1994). He won 5 back to back Filmfare awards for singing, between 1990 and 1994.
Work with other singers:
| Song | Film | Other version sung by singer(s) |
| “O Priya Suno Priya” | Arjun Pandit (1999) | Hariharan |
| “Dil Ka Aalam” | Aashiqui (1990) | Nitin Mukesh |
| “Dil Ka Rishta” | Dil Ka Rishta (2002) | Udit Narayan and Babul Supriyo |
| “Kajal Kajal” | Sapoot (1996) | Amit Kumar |
| “Raja Ko Rani Se” | Akele Hum Akele Tum (1995) | Udit Narayan and Kumar Sanu? |
| “Pardesi Pardesi” | Raja Hindustani (1996) | Udit Narayan and Suresh Wadkar (sad version) |
| “Aakhon Main Base ho Tum” | Takkar (1995) | Abhijeet Bhattacharya |
| “Tum Dil Ki” | Dhadkan (2000) | Abhijeet Bhattacharya |
| “Dil Ne Yeh Kaha Hai Dilse” | Dhadkan (2000) | Sonu Nigam, Udit Narayan |
| “Woh Aankh Hi Kya” | Khuddar (1994) | Sonu Nigam |
| “Jeeye Toh Jeeya Kyse” | Saajan (1991) | Pankaj Udhas and S. P. Balasubrahmanyam |
| “Dil Kya Kare” | Dil Kya Kare (1999) | Udit Narayan |
| “Janam Meri Janam” | Mr. Bechara (1996) | Udit Narayan |
| “O Dil Tod Ke Hasti Ho Mera” | Bewafa Sanam (1995) | Udit Narayan |
| “Is Tarah Aashiqui Ka” | Imtihaan (1994) | Amit Kumar |
| “Dil Mera Churaya Kyu” | Akele Hum Akele Tum (1995) | Udit Narayan |
| “Cahaton Ka Silsila” | Shabd (2005) | Udit Narayan |
| “Jis Ghadi Tujhko” | Prithvi (1997 film) | Udit Narayan |
| “Salma Pe Dil Aa Gaya” | Salma Pe Dil Aa Gaya (1997) | Udit Narayan, Asha Bhosle and Amit Kumar Aaina Aaina Dil ko Ravan Raaj: A True Story Pulan Visaranai |
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