Monali Thakur
Monali Thakur, daughter of the Bengali singer Shakti Thakur, was an Indian Idol contestant in 2006, had early hits with Zara Zara Touch Me (Race) and Khwab Dekhe (Race, 2008) for Pritam, and won the National Award for Moh Moh Ke Dhaage in Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015) — the female version of the song that also won Papon his Filmfare. Sawaar Loon (Lootera) and Cham Cham are the other songs most people know.
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Life
She was born in Kolkata in 1985, trained in classical music, and after Indian Idol sang for Pritam in Race; Lootera's Sawaar Loon (Amit Trivedi, 2013), Dum Laga Ke Haisha (2015), Baaghi's Cham Cham and Badrinath Ki Dulhania's Badri Ki Dulhania followed. She has acted in films including Lakshmi and Nagesh Kukunoor's work, and lives between Mumbai and Switzerland.
The voice
A light, airy soprano with a childlike sweetness and an easy, swinging rhythm — a voice for the morning song.
Composers
- Pritam
- Amit Trivedi
- Anu Malik
- Meet Bros
- Tanishk Bagchi
Sang for
- Bipasha Basu
- Sonakshi Sinha
- Bhumi Pednekar
- Shraddha Kapoor
- Alia Bhatt
Sang with
- Papon
- Arijit Singh
- Dev Negi
- Neeraj Shridhar
Honours
National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer, 2015 (Dum Laga Ke Haisha — Moh Moh Ke Dhaage)
More film songs 13 songs, by year
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2010s
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Bengali songs 2
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Singers of the same years
- Asha Bhosle
- Kavita Krishnamurthy
- Kumar Sanu
- Udit Narayan
- Abhijeet Bhattacharya
- Hariharan
- Sadhana Sargam
- Alka Yagnik
- Jaspinder Narula
- Shaan
- Sonu Nigam
- KK
- Arijit Singh
- Atif Aslam
- Mohit Chauhan
- Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
- Javed Ali
- Kailash Kher
- Neha Kakkar
- Sunidhi Chauhan
- Armaan Malik
- Shreya Ghoshal
- Jubin Nautiyal
- Papon
- Benny Dayal
- Shilpa Rao
- Neeti Mohan
- Shalmali Kholgade
- Mika Singh
- Sukhwinder Singh