Monali Thakur | |
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 Thakur in 2016 | |
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| Birth name | Monali Thakur |
| Born | Kolkata, West Bengal, India[1] |
| Origin | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
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| Years active | 2006–present |
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Life and career
Thakur was born in a Bengali musical family in Kolkata. Her father Shakti Thakur is a Bengali singer and her sister Mehuli Thakur is also a playback singer. She was trained in Hindustani classical music under Pandit Jagdish Prasad and Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty. She has learnt hip-hop and Bharatanatyam and is also a trained salsa dancer.Thakur started singing in school and college competitions and performing at local functions, and received the Best Playback Singer award at the Anandalok Awards for the serial Sri Ramkrishna when she was 14. She rose to popularity after placing ninth in Indian Idol 2′′. On Her Elimination from the show, One of the judges "Anu Malik" promised her of Giving her Singing offer soon. He offered him The National Award winning song "Moh Moh Ke Dhaage" . She had to struggle even after Indian Idol to get a strong foothold in the music industry. She got an offer from music director Pritam Chakraborty to sing two songs for the Bollywood film Race in 2008 – "Khwab Dekhe" (Sexy Lady) and "Zara Zara Touch Me". She was originally scheduled to sing only one song, but her first recording impressed the film's directors Abbas–Mustan enough for them to book her a second. "Zara Zara Touch Me" was enormously successful, becoming the fourth-most-played song on Indian radio during the first half of 2008. She also got nominated for an IIFA Award for Best Female Playback and an Apsara Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Zara Zara Touch Me". Monali's first large format live concert was at Powai Sarvajanin Durgotsav in 2011.She was a judge in the Bengali music reality show Bengali Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs for two years. She also appeared in the Bengali show Key Hobe Biggest Fan and was part of Coke Studio.In 2014, Thakur won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the superhit song "Sawaar Loon" from the film Lootera. In March 2016, she received the National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for another Chartbuster song "Moh Moh Ke Dhaage" from the film Dum Laga Ke Haisha and earned a nomination at the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the same. Thakur has also released her Singles, Tamanna (2018), Shy Mora Saiyaan (2018), O Re Naseeba(2019), Pani Pani Re (2019), Dugga Elo (2019) and her latest Single is Dil Ka Fitoor released in May 2020. She recently revealed that she had secretly married her Swiss boyfriend, Maik Ritcher, in 2017.Personal life
Monali Thakur married Maik Richter in 2017, She met Maik Richter on a trip to Switzerland while she was on a backpacking trip to Switzerland. Maik was her Airbnb host. Maik proposed to her at the exact spot where they had met for the first time, under a tree, on a freezing Christmas Eve in 2016. Monali made the marriage public only in June 2020. Maik is a Switzerland based Restaurateur.Filmography
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