Shreya Ghoshal – Melodious Queen

Malyalam language isn’t easy: Shreya Ghoshal

Shreya Ghoshal has won the Kerala State Film Award

for the best female playback singer for her song, ‘Chandhu

Thotille’ in Banaras, adding her to long list of awards.

Buzz up!

Shreya states that she never thought she would get an award

 for a Malyalam song as the language isn’t easy.

She thanked M Jayachandran, the composer of the song,

For giving her a lovely song like that and helping her to

do justice to it. 

Shreya has earlier sung ‘Vida Parayukayano’ for the

Mammootty starrer BIG B, ‘Vennilave’ in Sagar Alias

Jacky and ‘Anuraaga Vilochanayi’ in Neelathamara.

Shreya has won numerous awards in the past, like four

National awards and three state awards. She has won 31

awards in total. In eight years of her career, she has sung

for over 140 films in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Kannada,

Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam and BENGALI.

Queen Of Hearts!

In this article Shreya also adds that she also requests the 

music director or the person in charge of the recording to

explain the situation in which the song is sung. That, she

feels, is what helps her give each song of her that punch 

and evocative way of rendering. “They explain the way of

pallavi or the anupallavi would be shot and the scenes for

which the song would be played.” Says Shreya.

Shreya always gives her family the first priority. She says,

there is no separate entity. We are one. My Father Biswajeet 

Ghoshal is a scientist-engineer and my biggest support.

 I get my music from my maternal side. My mother,

 Sharmistha, herself is an excellent singer though she 

never turned a professional singer. My brother, Soumyadeep,

 is studying engineering. We function as a team.

National Award!

NEW DELHI – Marathi film “Jogva”, a poignant tale of

One woman’s journey to break free from the shackles of

discrimination, sexual oppression and servitude to find true

happiness, bagged the maximum honours at the 56th National 

Film Awards announced here Saturday.

The movie, an IDream Productions project directed by

Rajeev Patil and written by Sanjay Patil, walked away

with five awards.

Its lead actor Upendra Limaya won the best actor award

and the film was adjudged the best film on social issues.

The movie also won two awards each for playback singers

Shreya Ghoshal and Hariharan for the song “Jeev dangla

gungla rangla”. Music composers Ajay and Atul also won

the best music direction award for their songs for the film.

The success of “Jogva” was followed by Annirudh Roy

Chowdhary’s Bengali project “Antaheen”, which bagged

four awards, including for the best feature film.

“Antaheen”, a story about love and loneliness, also won

For the best cinematography and best lyrics, while Shreya

Ghoshal won the award for the best singer for the song

“Pherari Mon”.