Sandhya Mukherjee Age, Husband, Children, Family, Biography & More

Bio/Wiki
Other Names	• Sandhya Mukhopadhyay [1]The Tribune • Gitashree Sandhya Mukherjee [2]NDTV
Profession	Bengali Playback Singer
Physical Stats & More
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	White
Career
Debut	Hindi Song: 'Ab Nahi Dharat Dheer Dheer' (1948) from the movie Anjaan Garh Bengali Song: 'Jhana jhanana Sur jhankare' (1970) from the movie Jai jayanti
Awards	• Best Female Playback Singer for Sandhya Deeper Sikha in 1965 • National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her song 'Amader Chuti Chuti' in the film Jay Jayanti and 'Ore Sakol Sona Molin Holo' in the film Nishi Padma in 1970 • Best Female Playback Singer for Jay Jayanti in 1972 • Bharat Nirman Award - Lifetime Achievement Award in 1999 • Banga Bibhushan in 2011
Personal Life
Date of Birth	4 October 1931 (Sunday)
Birthplace	Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British Raj
Date of Death	15 February 2022
Place of Death	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Age (at the time of death)	90 Years
Death Cause	Cardiac Attack [3]Hindustan Times
Zodiac sign	Libra
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Dhakuria, Calcutta
School	• Dhakuria Balika Vidyalaya, West Bengal • Binodini Girls' High School, West Bengal
Relationships & More
Marital Status	Married
Marriage Date	Year, 1966
Family
Husband/Spouse	Shyamal Gupta (Bengali poet)
Parents	Father- Narendranath Mukherjee (Railway officer) Mother- Hemprova Devi
Children	Daughter- Soumi Sengupta
Siblings	She has three brothers and two sisters.

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sandhya Mukherjee

• Sandhya Mukherjee was an Indian playback singer who is mostly known for singing Bengali songs.

• She took music training under Pandit Santosh Kumar Basu, Professor A T Kannan, and Professor Chinmoy Lahiri.

• She learned Indian classical music from her guru Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, and after his death from his son, Ustad Munavvar Ali Khan.

• In 1951, she started her career in Mumbai with Hindi songs in the movie ‘Tarana.’
  

  Poster of the movie ‘Tarana’

• She has sung Hindi songs in more than 17 films. Apart from Bengali songs, Sandhya has also lent her voice to many Hindi songs that include Aayee Mere Jeevan Ki Saanjh Suhani (1948), Bol Papihe Bol Kaun Hai Tera Chitchor (1951), Jungle Mangal (1953), Maine Jo Lee Angrayee Teri Mehfil (1956), and Tose Naina Laage Re Saanwariya (1966).
  

  Madhubala in Sandhya’s song ‘Bol Papihe Bol Kaun Hai Tera Chitchor’ from the film Tarana (1951)

• Some of her popular Bengali songs include Madhumaloti Dake Aay, Lalita Go Bole Di, Ei Sanjhjhara Lagane, and Ebare Bujjechi Ami.

• In 1946, she stood first in the Gitashree Examination.

• In 1952, she went back to Kolkata, where she got married in 1966. Her husband used to write lyrics to many of her songs.

• Sandhya’s collaboration with Bengali singer Hemanta Mukherjee became very popular, and they became one of the best duet singers in the Bengali music industry. Most of their songs featured Uttam Kumar and Suchitra Sen.

• In 1971, Sandhya raised funds for the refugees who came from West Bengal during the Bangladesh Liberation War. During the war, she also recorded various patriotic songs with Bangladeshi musician Samar Das for a radio broadcasting Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra. She became the first artist to visit Dhaka to perform on Bangladesh’s independence day in 1971.

• She wrote an autobiography titled Ogo Mor Gitimoy that was published in 2001.
  

  Sandhya’s autobiography ‘Ogo Mor Gitimoy’

• According to her, when she was seventeen or eighteen years old, she had to suffer from a disease called Mumps. She took treatment for this, but her right ear got permanently damaged.

• In 2022, she refused to receive the Padma Shri award and said that it was more deserving of a junior artiste and not someone of her stature. In an interview, her daughter Soumi said,
  

  There is no politics in it. She is far beyond any politics. Please don’t try to find out any political reasons in it. She felt insulted, that’s all.”