Sunday, October 6, 2013
UDIT NARAYAN JHA popularly known as Udit Narayan, is a Nepali playback
singer singing Bollywood in commercial. He has sung in around 32
language including Hindi, Bhojpuri, Nepali, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Urdu,
Garhwali, Sindhi, Punjabi, Oriya, Assamese,Maithili and Bengali language
cinema. He has won three National Film Awards and five Filmfare
Awards. In 2009, he was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government
of India and also awarded the Prabal Gorkha Dakshin Bahu by the
late King of Nepal 'Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev' .
Udit Narayan Jha was born on 1 December 1955 in a village
called Bhardaha in the Saptari district, Nepal. His
father was Hare Krishna Jha and his mother was Bhuwaneshwari Devi.
Narayan studied at P.B. School, Rajbiraj, where he passed
his S.L.C. (class 10) and later obtained his intermediate from Ratna
Rajya Laxmi Campus, mostly known as RR campus Kathmandu.
Udit Narayan began his career in Nepal singing for Radio
Nepal as a staff artist for Maithili and Nepali folk
songs. He sang many popular Nepali folk, modern songs on Radio Nepal. His
first film playback singing was for Nepali film Sindur. It was
a comedy song for famous Nepali comedians GopalRaj Mainali (Chankhe) and
Basundhara Bhushal (Nakkali). It was a duet song with Sushma Shrestha —
now known as Poornima in Hindi films. After eight years in that role, the
Indian embassy offered him the chance to study classical music at a prestigious
school in Bombay, Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, on a music scholarship. He moved to
Bombay in 1978.
Udit Narayan has sung more than 25,000 songs in more than 34
languages. He is one of the most acclaimed singers of the present generation.
He got his first break in 1980, when noted music director (composer) Rajesh
Roshan asked him to playback for the Hindi film Unees Bees and
was given the opportunity to sing with the veteran Mohammed Rafi. He
provided playback for a number of films, the most notable being Sannata (1981), Bade
Dil Wala (1983) and Tan-Badan (1986). The success
story of his career began in 1988 when Anand-Milind gave him the
opportunity to sing all the songs for the successful Bollywood movie Qayamat
Se Qayamat Tak, earning him a Filmfare Award. The film also
brought actor Aamir Khan, actress Juhi Chawla and playback
singer Alka Yagnik to stardom. After the success of Qayamat
Se Qayamat Tak, he became one of the leading playback singers in the Indian
film industry.
Narayan is a resident of Mumbai. He has married twice: to
Ranjana Narayan Jha and Deepa Narayan Jha. His second wife, Deepa Narayan, whom
he married in 1985, is a singer. The two recorded an album together
titled Dil Deewana. They have son, Aditya Narayan, who is a
former child actor, singer and television presenter. Aditya Narayan started his
singing for child artists in Nepali film with his father before starting his
singing career in Hindi movies in the 1990s and also acted in a few films.
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