Abhijeet Bhattacharya

Abhijeet Bhattacharya (born 30 October 1958), known professionally as Abhijeet, is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings in Hindi Film Industry. Apart from Hindi, he has also sung in other languages including Marathi, Nepali, Tamil, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Odia and his native language Bengali both in West Bengal and Bangladesh. Abhijeet has sung 6034 songs in more than 1000 films. He was nominated for Forbes Popular 100 Indian Celebrity in the year 2014.

Personal life
Abhijeet was born in Uttar Pradesh to a Kanpur-based Bengali Brahmin family the youngest of four to news editor Dheerendranath Bhattacharya and his wife Kamla Bhattacharya in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He graduated in commerce (B.Com.) from Christ Church College, Kanpur in 1977. He started singing on stage from 1970. He left home in 1981 to pursue a career in singing in Bollywood. He is married in a punjabi family to his long time love.

Film Career
He was launched by R. D. Burman in a Bengali film with a duet song with Asha Bhosle.He did stage shows as a singer with R. D. Burman in his starting career.He has sung for Bollywood actors Vijay Anand, Sunil Shetty,Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Sunny Deol, Govinda, Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar ,Ajay Devgn, Ranbir Kapoor ,Chandrachur Singh,Bobby Deol, Jitender Kumar and Jimmy Shergill. He has been deeply influenced by the singer Kishore Kumar. His career started with Baaghi: A Rebel for Love.The songs were Chandni raat ha etc became his first massive hit composed by Anand-Milind then, in 1992 came Khiladi where he sang songs wada raha sanam ,khudko kya samjhti ha,kya khabar thi jana composed by Jatin-Lalit following this he gave many massive hits in the 90's.

His 2000s career included Red Chillies Entertainment's first film Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, Dhadkan, Josh, Asoka. Following with Dhoom's Dilbara ,Gangster's Lamha Lamha  with Sunidhi Chauhan,Om Shanti Om's  Dhoom Tana Na  with Shreya Ghoshal. Later he sang for Ranbir Kapoor in film Besharam. The song was Dil ka jo haal hai with Shreya Ghoshal. In May 2019, Abhijeet Released Chakde Fatte which is the Cricket World Cup Song for 2019. The song was well appreciated by listeners. Many of his iconic songs are now being remade by new age composers, such as Tan Tana Tan  from Judwaa 2, Ole Ole from Jawani Janeman where the actor was himself Saif Ali Khan, Mai Khiladi Tu Anadi from Selfiee, Husnn Hai Suhana from Coolie No. 1, Sheher Ki Ladki  from Khandaani Shafakhana and many more in the list. His Salman Khan duo famous song Chunnri Chunnri was recreated by famous South Korea band BTS in 2020 and it became very famous in reels from Instagram. In 2020 his first released song came for the Movie Shukranu, a 70s feel like song "Khwaab hai ya haqeqaat" duet with Indian Idol fame Krishnakali Saha released from Zee Music Company. In September 2021 Abhijeet is judged 'Sangeet er Moha Juddho', a reality show airing on Colours Bangla Channel along with other judges Jeet Ganguli, Ustad Rashid Khan.

He did his powerful comeback in 2024 with the song Haal e dil ko in the season 3 of popular webseries Panchayat.

Non film music
In his early career he recorded an album with tribute songs to Kishore Kumar. The name of the album was A Tribute To Kishore Kumar, distributed by Gulshan Kumar and T-Series. His show was aired on Doordarshan was a massive famous among Indian homes which was a tribute to the legend Kishore Kumar. Playback singer Anuradha Paudwal also recorded duets opposite Abhijeet in some duet songs.He released Gems of Kishore Kumar singing iconic songs of the legend. Abhijeet along with Anuradha Paudwal and Bhupinder Singh released an album A Tribute To R.D. Burman in honor of the composer recreating his compositions.

He released the Yaadein series where he sang many of the songs of Kishore Kumar along with singers Kumar Sanu and Vinod Rathod.

He has recorded many non-film pop music Albums. He released two albums, Main Deewana Hoon and Tapori No.1 in the early 1990s.He with other singers launched Dil Vil Pyar Vyar as a tribute to R. D. Burman and his compositions to Kishore Kumar. Other singers contributed including Kumar Sanu, Hariharan, Shaan and Kavita Krishnamurti. Later he launched Aashiqui.In early 2000s Abhijeet Bhattacharya released an album Salute To Legends singing the iconic songs of singers Manna Dey,Hemant Kumar,Kishore Kumar,Mukesh distributed by T-Series. In 2000s era he released pop albums like,Meri Wafaein(1997), Aashiqui (2000),Tapori No.1 (2001),Tu Meri Jaan(2002), Bandhan(Bengali), Tere Bina in (2003),Lamahe(2006) and Mai Deewana Hoo (2016). Tere Bina opened the career of Divya Khosla Kumar with the song Kabhi yaadon mein Aao.

Reality Shows
Abhijeet was on the panel of judges of reality show Ek Se Badhkar Ek with choreographer Ahmed Khan anchor was Ravi Kishan in 2008 on Zee Tv.The show was based on bringing several talents together. Abhijeet was on the panel of judges of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs    in 2009 with music director,singer Bappi Lahiri and playback singer Alka Yagnik on Zee TV and anchor was Shaan. Abhijeet then was on judges panel with his Baaghi co-singer Kavita Krishnamurti on Zee Bangla TV for Saregamapa Lil Champs Bangla 2010.The reality show was  based on the bringing talented  singer kids from districts of WB.

His comeback as a judge was in 2020 with reality show SuperSinger on Star Jalsha. Then with Sangeeter Mahayuddho in 2021 on Colors Bangla channel.The other judges included singer Ustad Rashid Khan and Aashiqui 2 composer Jeet Ganguly.He attended as special guests in Indian Idol 2022, Saregamapa Zee TV on 2023.Recently attended Indian Idol 2024 on Sony TV in his honor of contribution in the Film Industry.He along with singer Anuradha Paudwal graced the stage of Saregamapa2024 season reality show on Zee TV.

Work with other singers
Abhijeet had sung multiple hit duet chartbusters with singers Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Neerja Pandit, K.S.Chithra, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Anuradha Paudwal, Alka Yagnik, Sadhana Sargam, Chandana Dixit, Sapna Mukherjee, Poornima, Hema Sardesai, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal, Akriti Kakkar, Jaspinder Narula, Mahalaxmi Iyer and others.As a singer his career started with music composers Anand-Milind and Jatin-Lalit.He sang many songs for them including A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jagjit Singh, R. D. Burman, Rajesh Roshan , Nadeem-Shravan ,Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen and other music composers.His maximum songs were with his friend singer Alka Yagnik.They sang as a successful duet in both 90's and later 2000's.

As a singer

 * Tamil songs
 * Telugu songs

Accolades

 * Honours
 * MTV ASIA Award (2004)
 * Uttar Pradesh Gaurav Samman
 * Yash Bharati Samman (2013)
 * Sangeet Maha Samman (2015)
 * Vishesh Shamman Award by West Bengal Government (2017)
 * Vikramaditya Award (2018)
 * Banga Bibhushan (2022)

Win
 * Filmfare Awards

Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer
 * Screen Award for Best Male Playback in 1998 for "Main Koi Aisa Geet" from Yes Boss

Nomination

1995 – Best Male Playback Singer for "Wada Raha Sanam" from (Khiladi)

1995 – Best Male Playback Singer for "Ole Ole" from (Yeh Dillagi)

1997 – Best Male Playback Singer for "Yeh Teri Aankhen Jhuki Jhuki" from (Fareb)

2004 – Best Male Playback Singer for "Suno Na" from (Chalte Chalte)