Anwesshaa (born Anwesha Mita Dattagupta; 15 December 1993[1][2][3][4]) is an Indian singer and composer in Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil, Marathi and other Indian languages. She first appeared in the reality show Amul STAR Voice of India, Chhote Ustaad at the age of 13.
Anwesshaa appeared on national television for the first time in the year 2007. Thereafter, she has been a part of various other shows. She started her career as a playback singer with the song "Ek Je Achhe Raja" in the Bengali film Khela (2008). Anwesshaa's first breakthrough in Bollywood was in Golmaal Returns for Pritam Chakraborty at the age of 14. She has recorded songs for many films including 'I am 24, Raanjhanaa', 'Revolver Rani', 'Dangerous Ishq', 'Panchlait', 'I am Banni', 'Kaanchi', 'Prem Ratan Dhan payo', 'Expose', 'Gurudakshina', 'Do lafzon ki kahani', 'Ye Kaisa Tigdam', 'Bansuri', 'I Love Desi', 'Love you Soniyo', 'Dhoop chaav, Malhar' and others. Apart from Hindi and Bengali, she has also made her debut with other Indian languages, including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri and also in Bangladeshi films. Her playbacks are for around 500 movies across all languages to date. She has received honours like Filmfare Award (East),[2]
Anwesha performed in Sabujer Deshe in 2000 (ETV Bangla). She was a Mega Finalist in Tarana music competition (1st Schedule) which was telecast in January 2003 (ETV Bangla). In early 2007, she also participated in the musical game show Antakshari (Star Plus) where she represented East Zone.[citation needed]
Tuzya Vina (Marathi Composed By Prasad Phatak – Award for best singer, Marathi single)
Sajan ghar aao re (Composition: Prasad Phatak; Lyrics: Sameer Samant)
Laage buke laage (Composer: Imran Mahmudul)
Ichhe Kore (Singer: Anwesshaa; Lyricist: Prabir Mukhopadhyay; Music Direction and Composition: Anjan Majumdar; Music Arrangements: Pt.Debojyoti (Tony) Bose; Sound Recordist: Gautam Basu, Sanjay Ghosh; Studio: Vibration & Resonance Music Video : Milton)
In 2007–08, she participated in the juniors version of the popular musical reality show Amul STAR Voice of India named Chhote Ustaad. Aishwarya Majmudar was winner and Anwesha became runner up in competition.[11]
After Chhote Ustaad
Anwesha recorded her second playback song for a Bengali film Khela, directed by Rituparno Ghosh, a Bengali film director, on 6 May 2008.
Anwesha got her first break as a commercial playback singer in the film Golmaal Returns (Music Director – Pritam) where she sings for Amrita Arora/Kareena Kapoor.[12]
She sang the title song for the TV show Waar Parriwar by Gajendra Singh alongside Shaan.
She will be recording a Bengali Album, which would release during the Pooja.[13]
Anwesha recorded a song with Planman Motion Pictures in the 2012 romantic comedy I M 24 with music director Jatin Pandit.[14]
Anwesha also participated in NABC-2009 held at San Jose, California where she delivered soulful numbers with Shaan
Anwesha Tamil debut with the song called "Megam Vanthu Pogum" (Cloud comes and disappears)from the movie called Mandhira Punnagai(Mandhra of Smile), music by one of the greatest music director Vidhyasagar. For the same music director, she has recorded a new song for the new Tamil movie Ilaignan. The song title goes as Mazhaiyil Kulitha along with Karthik
She received best female upcoming singer of the year award for the debut Tamil song in music mirchi awards 2010.
She sang, as promised by Himesh Reshammiya (during "Music Ka Maha Muqabala"), one of the songs of the movie Dangerous Ishhq (Vikram Bhatt 2012):
Anwesha sang the song "Banarasiya" with Shreya Ghoshal and Meenal Jain from the 2013 film Raanjhanaa with music composed by AR Rahman.
She performed a ghazal "Benaam Khwahishein"[15] at Coke Studio on the fifth episode under the music direction of Papon.
Collaborations with Abhishek Ray
Kehkasha
Bismil
Reshmii dhaagey
Tasavvur
Aanch lagi
Kuch thikana nahi
Sukha patta
Dushwari
Manbasiyaa
Yaadon ke panchi
Let it rain
Larzish
Awards and nominations
Some of the awards bestowed upon her to date are Filmfare Award (east),[2] 2 Mirchi Music Awards (Bangla & South India), Gujarat state award, Star Parivaar Award,[16] 3 Tele Cine Awards, Big Music Awards, Chitrapat Padarpan Puraskar (Marathi), Academia Award (Los Angeles,USA), Garber Bangali (an honour for achievers in various fields who've made Bengal proud), Tele Samman, Woman Entertainers' Award, Uttam Kalaratna Award for Music Direction, GIFA award (Gujarati iconic film awards) etc.
