Happy Birthday Kumar Sanu: There were many male singers in the 80’s and 90’s but no one was like Kumar Sanu. Most of the romantic songs of that era were sung by Kumar Sanu. Kumar Sanu has sung hundreds of songs for Hindi cinema but do you know that Kumar Sanu did not start his singing career with Hindi cinema?
Yes, Kumar Sanu used to sing for Bengali films in the early days but a legend got him recognition in Hindi cinema. In 1990, a film was released in which Kumar Sanu sang almost all the songs and all of them became super-duper hits. Let us tell you some stories of Kumar Sanu’s initial struggle.
Family Background of Kumar Sanu
Kedarnath Bhattacharya was born on 23 September 1957 in Kolkata. His father Pashupati Bhattacharya was also a singer and composer. After entering the film world, Kedarnath was named Kumar Sanu. Kumar Sanu married a girl named Rita in 1980 and had three children named Jiko, Jassi and Jaan. They got divorced in 1994 and later Kumar Sanu married Saloni, with whom he has two daughters.
Who gave the first chance to Kumar Sanu?
In 1983, Kumar Sanu started his singing career with Bengali songs. In 1986, he sang in a Bangladeshi film Teen Kanya. His first Bollywood film with songs was Hero Hiralal (1988). In 1989, Ghazal Samrat Jagjit Singh introduced Kumar Sanu to Kalyanji. It was Kalyanji who suggested Sanu Bhattacharya to name him Kumar Sanu because his idol was Kishore Kumar.
He got a chance to sing in the film Jaadugar (1989) in Kalyan-Anandji’s composition. Kumar Sanu met Gulshan Kumar during that period and luckily he was given the responsibility of singing the songs of ‘Aashiqui’. The film Aashiqui was released in 1990, the songs of which created a sensation all over India and even today those songs are kept in the playlist of most romantic songs.
hindi superhit songs of kumar sanu
Kumar Sanu has sung hundreds of back to back superhit songs for films like ‘Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahi’, ‘Saajan’, ‘Saathi’, ‘Phool Aur Kaante’, ‘Sadak’, ‘Deewana’, ‘Sapne Saajan Ke’, ‘Damini’, ‘Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke’, ‘Dilwale’, ‘Saajan Ka Ghar’, ‘Aatish’, ‘Barsaat’, ‘Agni Sakshi’, ‘Sirf Tum’, ‘Dhadkan’, ‘Yeh Dil Aashikana’. From 1991 to 2005, Kumar Sanu sang 293 songs and all of them were hits. Kumar Sanu has recorded 21000 tracks so far. Which includes Bengali, Hindi, Marathi and some other languages.