Sushma Shrestha
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Sushma Shrestha also known as Poornima, is a noted Nepali
singer who has sung many Nepali, Hindi
and Marathi
songs in the Nepali and India
n music industry. Sushma started her career as a child singer in the Ramesh Sippy
directed, 1971 film Andaz
. In that film, she sang under the music direction of Shankar-Jaikishan the song "Hai Na Bolo Bolo" along with Suman Kalyanpur
and Pratibha. The song went on to become a hit.
She also sang numerous Nepali songs; the most popular one is from the 1980 Nepali movie Sindoor, 'Ali Ali Haar Ho'
She is mostly remembered for her songs like "Tera Mujhse hai pehle" from Aa Gale Lag Jaa (1973) and "Kya Huwa Tera Vada" from Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin
(1977); both earned her nominations for the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award
.
Poornima has also sung other popular numbers like Channe Ke Khet Main from Anjaam(1994)
and in a series of David Dhawan
films like such as Coolie No. 1
(1995), Judwaa
(1997), Hero No. 1
(1997) and Biwi No.1
(1999) amongst others.
Apart from Hindi, Sushma Shreshta has sung number of Marathi Film and Non-Film songs. These include Baal Geet (Children's songs), Bhavgeet etc.
for R.D. Burman's programme on 27th June 2011. Remember the child prodigy who sang the hit ‘Hai Na Bolo Bolo’ when she was just nine. She has sung many super hit songs in her childhood. Tera mujhe hai nata koi, jaane tu ya jaane na, yaadon ki baarat are a few to name. Poornima is the oldest singer in terms of experience in the industry (who among today’s singers can boast of having worked with Naushad, Madan Mohan, C. Ramchandra, Anil Biswas, S. D. Burman and Shankar Jaikishan).
Poornima did a children’s album called Bal Geet, which had the legendary S. Khale composing the songs and Shanta Shelke penning them. She sang four songs in it and it proved as huge hit and gave immense exposure to Poornima who surprised everybody by singing Marathi songs without a blemish.
The first break happened accidentally when Chandrakant Bhosle, a family friend and an assistant to Shankar – Jaikishan recommended her name to Shankar. In spite of the prevailing custom of women playback singers singing for children, Shankar took upon him the challenge of taking an unknown child to sing ‘Hai Na Bolo Bolo’ for the film Andaz. Poornima recorded her first song on the 11th of November 1969 with the legend Mohammad Rafi and Suman Kalyanpur. Rafi was impressed by her singing and presented her hundred rupees after the recording.
Her career was planned to be launched at a function organised by the Punjab Association organised by Raj Kapoor, Pran and others. Slated to perform on the 12th of April 1971, tragedy struck on the 11th of April when her father suffered a cardiac arrest and died. The undaunted teenager encouraged by family and friends gave a performance, which impressed many and which also enabled her to get a scholarship of Rs. 250 to study music.
Marriage put a temporary halt to her singing career with regard to films as she stopped doing stage shows, which promptly dried up the offers for playback. Her last song as Sushma Shreshtha was in N. Chandra’s Ankur ‘Itni Shakti Humein Dena Mata’. Jingles took her attention where the professionalism made her settle to a steady work schedule.
In the 1990s, Tips, the Music Company approached her with an offer. Wanting to make a clean departure from the child prodigy image, they suggested a change of name and image. Sushma was game and took the name Poornima, according to her star. Her song ‘Barsaat Mein Jab Aayega Saawan Ka Maheena’ from Maa was a hit. Few things changed till David Dhawan’s Bol Radha Bol
. ‘Tu Tu Tu Tu Tara’ was nothing short of an anthem and the remaining songs, which were a success also, gave Poornima the opportunity to savour success and adulation that had eluded for long.
She continued her association with Dhawan, she went on to sing for all his No. 1 series including Haseena Maan Jayegi
and Biwi No.1
, last year’s blockbuster. In spite of the lacklustre Indi – Pop scenario last year, Poornima was one of the top – ten selling artistes with her album Mera Dil Bole Piya Piya. With the adage “slow and steady wins the race” enforcing her nearly three comebacks.More of her has yet to come ....
Best Of Poornima:
Song Movie
Aaj Kal Ki Ladkiyan Chal Mere Bhai
Maine paidal se ja raha tha Hero No. 1
Mr. Lova Lova Ishq
Simply Darun Songs
Ankh Micholi songs
THES Songs
Balma Bada Bavaali Songs
Jaal Songs
BHAI SAHEB Songs
BADAL Songs
JOGAN Songs
Patanga Songs
SHAGUFA Songs
Songs
Jai Kali Jai Kalimal Harni Jai Kali Jai Kalimal Harni
Album: Maiya Ke Pukaar
Mumbai Nagariya mein Bhayya
Album: Hamaara Faislaa Music: Rituraaj
Ladki Hai Tu Yaa Koi Pari..
Album: Hamaara Faislaa Music: Rituraaj
Parody Parody
Album: Eena Meena Deeka
Ras Mallai
Album: Chandaal
Lahenga Bheetar Bichhua Lahenga Bheetar Bichhua
Album: Ee Maati Mein Sab Kuchh Baate
Oonchi Re Dalaan Chadhi Baithal Chho Oonchi Re Dalaan Chadhi Baithal Chho
Album: Doliya Kahaar Beti Chalal Sasurar (part 2)
Godna God Mohe Godna God Mohe
Album: Vinashak
Vidhi Ke Banawan Aaj Vidhi Ke Banawan Aaj
Album: Lajaaoon Naahi Dulha
KARISHMA MEIN TU KARISHMA MEIN TU
Album: Billa No.786
Main Hoon Gaon Ki Gori Main Hoon Gaon Ki Gori
Album: Bol Radha Bol
So Rupaya Chanda Daike Ho Jai Phiri So Rupaya Chanda Daike Ho Jai Phiri
Album: Tohke Chadaib Laal Ohaar
Taal Mein Titeheri Bola Taal Mein Titeheri Bola
Album: Saat Farey
Aa Tujhe Main Pyar Dun - Bandish Aa Tujhe Main Pyar Dun - Bandish
Album: GAANE ANJAANE - PYAR PYAR PYAR
Jaag Jaag E Barti Jaag Jaag E Barti
Album: Baans Ke Supva
Le La Godiya Mein Sejiya Le La Godiya Mein Sejiya
Album: Devar Ji
Bidiya Pe India Deewana Ba Bidiya Pe India Deewana Ba
Album: Kab Hoi Milanva Hamaar
Aajkal Ki Ladkiyan
Album: Chal Mere Bhai
Bant Na Mithai Bant Na Mithai
Album: Saiyan Siphaiya
Sona Kitna Sona Hai Sona Kitna Sona Hai
Album: Hero No.1
Bhola Bam Kanwar Le Ke Bhola Bam Kanwar Le Ke
Album: Bhola Bam Kanwar Le Ke
Base Ke Supva Base Ke Supva
Album: Baans Ke Supva
Nepal
Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked sovereign state located in South Asia. It is located in the Himalayas and bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India...
singer who has sung many Nepali, Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
and Marathi
Marathi language
Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...
songs in the Nepali and India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n music industry. Sushma started her career as a child singer in the Ramesh Sippy
Ramesh Sippy
Ramesh Sippy is an Indian film director, probably best-known for directing the popular and critically acclaimed film Sholay ....
directed, 1971 film Andaz
Andaz (1971 film)
Andaz or Andaaz is a 1971 Hindi romantic movie starring Shammi Kapoor, Hema Malini and Rajesh Khanna...
. In that film, she sang under the music direction of Shankar-Jaikishan the song "Hai Na Bolo Bolo" along with Suman Kalyanpur
Suman Kalyanpur
Suman Kalyānpur is a female singer from India.Suman Kalyanpur aka Suman Hemadey was born on January 28, 1937 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, , her maiden name being Hemmady. In 1943, her family moved to Mumbai , where she received her musical training. She married Ramanand S...
and Pratibha. The song went on to become a hit.
She also sang numerous Nepali songs; the most popular one is from the 1980 Nepali movie Sindoor, 'Ali Ali Haar Ho'
She is mostly remembered for her songs like "Tera Mujhse hai pehle" from Aa Gale Lag Jaa (1973) and "Kya Huwa Tera Vada" from Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin
Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahin
Hum Kisi Se Kum Naheen is a 1977 Hindi action film, produced and directed by Nasir Hussain. The film became a "super hit" at the box office, and took the third top spot at the box office in 1977....
(1977); both earned her nominations for the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award
Filmfare Best Female Playback Award
The Filmfare Best Female Playback Award is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise a female playback singer who has delivered an outstanding performance in a film song....
.
Poornima has also sung other popular numbers like Channe Ke Khet Main from Anjaam(1994)
Anjaam
Anjaam is an Indian Bollywood movie released on 22 April 1994, directed by Rahul Rawail. It stars Madhuri Dixit and Shahrukh Khan in pivotal roles. Actors Deepak Tijori, Himani Shivpuri, Tinnu Anand, Kalpana Iyer and Kiran Kumar appear in supporting roles...
and in a series of David Dhawan
David Dhawan
David Dhawan is an Indian film director. He has studied at the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune.-Career:Dhawan started off as an editor and then took the plunge into directing...
films like such as Coolie No. 1
Coolie No. 1
Coolie No. 1 is a 1995 Hindi language movie directed by David Dhawan.The film stars Karisma Kapoor, Govinda, Shakti Kapoor, Kadar Khan, Sadashiv Amrapurkar with music by Anand-Milind. This movie was one of the first successful movie of Karisma Kapoor. Actor Govinda got Star Screen Award Special...
(1995), Judwaa
Judwaa
Judwaa is an Indian Bollywood action comedy film directed by David Dhawan, starring Salman Khan in a double role opposite Karisma Kapoor and Rambha. Released on February 7, 1997, the film went on to do well at the box office. This movie has Salman Khan doing a double role as estranged twins...
(1997), Hero No. 1
Hero No. 1
Hero No.1 is a 1997 Bollywood comedy film directed by David Dhawan. It stars Govinda and Karishma Kapoor in lead roles. Most of the film's story is inspired by Bawarchi, a comedy film directed by Hrishikesh Mukherjee.Half of the film story is copy from 1995 Tamil hit film Ullathai...
(1997) and Biwi No.1
Biwi No.1
Biwi No.1 is a 1999 Bollywood comedy film directed by David Dhawan. The film stars Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Sushmita Sen, Anil Kapoor and Tabu. Saif Ali Khan has a special appearance in the film. It is remake of the 1995 Tamil film Sathi Leelavathi...
(1999) amongst others.
Apart from Hindi, Sushma Shreshta has sung number of Marathi Film and Non-Film songs. These include Baal Geet (Children's songs), Bhavgeet etc.
Life and career
Sushma's father was a music composer, Bholanath (Not sure about this name). She lost her father on 12th April 1971 when she was hardy 11 years old.That time, her mother just had Rs.40/- in her purse.She revealed this when she had gone to PunePune
Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...
for R.D. Burman's programme on 27th June 2011. Remember the child prodigy who sang the hit ‘Hai Na Bolo Bolo’ when she was just nine. She has sung many super hit songs in her childhood. Tera mujhe hai nata koi, jaane tu ya jaane na, yaadon ki baarat are a few to name. Poornima is the oldest singer in terms of experience in the industry (who among today’s singers can boast of having worked with Naushad, Madan Mohan, C. Ramchandra, Anil Biswas, S. D. Burman and Shankar Jaikishan).
Poornima did a children’s album called Bal Geet, which had the legendary S. Khale composing the songs and Shanta Shelke penning them. She sang four songs in it and it proved as huge hit and gave immense exposure to Poornima who surprised everybody by singing Marathi songs without a blemish.
The first break happened accidentally when Chandrakant Bhosle, a family friend and an assistant to Shankar – Jaikishan recommended her name to Shankar. In spite of the prevailing custom of women playback singers singing for children, Shankar took upon him the challenge of taking an unknown child to sing ‘Hai Na Bolo Bolo’ for the film Andaz. Poornima recorded her first song on the 11th of November 1969 with the legend Mohammad Rafi and Suman Kalyanpur. Rafi was impressed by her singing and presented her hundred rupees after the recording.
Her career was planned to be launched at a function organised by the Punjab Association organised by Raj Kapoor, Pran and others. Slated to perform on the 12th of April 1971, tragedy struck on the 11th of April when her father suffered a cardiac arrest and died. The undaunted teenager encouraged by family and friends gave a performance, which impressed many and which also enabled her to get a scholarship of Rs. 250 to study music.
Marriage put a temporary halt to her singing career with regard to films as she stopped doing stage shows, which promptly dried up the offers for playback. Her last song as Sushma Shreshtha was in N. Chandra’s Ankur ‘Itni Shakti Humein Dena Mata’. Jingles took her attention where the professionalism made her settle to a steady work schedule.
In the 1990s, Tips, the Music Company approached her with an offer. Wanting to make a clean departure from the child prodigy image, they suggested a change of name and image. Sushma was game and took the name Poornima, according to her star. Her song ‘Barsaat Mein Jab Aayega Saawan Ka Maheena’ from Maa was a hit. Few things changed till David Dhawan’s Bol Radha Bol
Bol Radha Bol
-Synopsis:Kishen Verma is the only son of a rich businessman. He goes to a small village to explore setting of a new factory unit there. He meets a simple village girl named Radha , and the two fall in love. On returning home, however, he finds that his mother is dead and his duplicate has taken...
. ‘Tu Tu Tu Tu Tara’ was nothing short of an anthem and the remaining songs, which were a success also, gave Poornima the opportunity to savour success and adulation that had eluded for long.
She continued her association with Dhawan, she went on to sing for all his No. 1 series including Haseena Maan Jayegi
Haseena Maan Jayegi
Haseena Maan Jayegi is a 1968 Hindi movie directed by Prakash Mehra. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Babita, Ameeta, Yunus Parvez and Johnny Walker...
and Biwi No.1
Biwi No.1
Biwi No.1 is a 1999 Bollywood comedy film directed by David Dhawan. The film stars Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Sushmita Sen, Anil Kapoor and Tabu. Saif Ali Khan has a special appearance in the film. It is remake of the 1995 Tamil film Sathi Leelavathi...
, last year’s blockbuster. In spite of the lacklustre Indi – Pop scenario last year, Poornima was one of the top – ten selling artistes with her album Mera Dil Bole Piya Piya. With the adage “slow and steady wins the race” enforcing her nearly three comebacks.More of her has yet to come ....
Best Of Poornima:
Song Movie
Aaj Kal Ki Ladkiyan Chal Mere Bhai
Maine paidal se ja raha tha Hero No. 1
Mr. Lova Lova Ishq
Singography
Poornima's AlbumsSimply Darun Songs
Ankh Micholi songs
THES Songs
Balma Bada Bavaali Songs
Jaal Songs
BHAI SAHEB Songs
BADAL Songs
JOGAN Songs
Patanga Songs
SHAGUFA Songs
Songs
Jai Kali Jai Kalimal Harni Jai Kali Jai Kalimal Harni
Album: Maiya Ke Pukaar
Mumbai Nagariya mein Bhayya
Album: Hamaara Faislaa Music: Rituraaj
Ladki Hai Tu Yaa Koi Pari..
Album: Hamaara Faislaa Music: Rituraaj
Parody Parody
Album: Eena Meena Deeka
Ras Mallai
Album: Chandaal
Lahenga Bheetar Bichhua Lahenga Bheetar Bichhua
Album: Ee Maati Mein Sab Kuchh Baate
Oonchi Re Dalaan Chadhi Baithal Chho Oonchi Re Dalaan Chadhi Baithal Chho
Album: Doliya Kahaar Beti Chalal Sasurar (part 2)
Godna God Mohe Godna God Mohe
Album: Vinashak
Vidhi Ke Banawan Aaj Vidhi Ke Banawan Aaj
Album: Lajaaoon Naahi Dulha
KARISHMA MEIN TU KARISHMA MEIN TU
Album: Billa No.786
Main Hoon Gaon Ki Gori Main Hoon Gaon Ki Gori
Album: Bol Radha Bol
So Rupaya Chanda Daike Ho Jai Phiri So Rupaya Chanda Daike Ho Jai Phiri
Album: Tohke Chadaib Laal Ohaar
Taal Mein Titeheri Bola Taal Mein Titeheri Bola
Album: Saat Farey
Aa Tujhe Main Pyar Dun - Bandish Aa Tujhe Main Pyar Dun - Bandish
Album: GAANE ANJAANE - PYAR PYAR PYAR
Jaag Jaag E Barti Jaag Jaag E Barti
Album: Baans Ke Supva
Le La Godiya Mein Sejiya Le La Godiya Mein Sejiya
Album: Devar Ji
Bidiya Pe India Deewana Ba Bidiya Pe India Deewana Ba
Album: Kab Hoi Milanva Hamaar
Aajkal Ki Ladkiyan
Album: Chal Mere Bhai
Bant Na Mithai Bant Na Mithai
Album: Saiyan Siphaiya
Sona Kitna Sona Hai Sona Kitna Sona Hai
Album: Hero No.1
Bhola Bam Kanwar Le Ke Bhola Bam Kanwar Le Ke
Album: Bhola Bam Kanwar Le Ke
Base Ke Supva Base Ke Supva
Album: Baans Ke Supva