NEW DELHI: Bengali singer Anup Ghoshal, principally identified for the ‘Tujhse Naraz Nahi Zindagi’ quantity from the 1983 movie ‘Masoom’ and who immortalised the songs in a number of Satyajit Ray’s musicals died right here on Friday, his household mentioned. He was 77. He is survived by two daughters.
Anup had been hospitalised for the previous a number of days at a personal hospital in south Kolkata for outdated age illnesses and died attributable to multi-organ failure at 1.40 pm. Ghosal, who had efficiently contested the 2011 meeting polls from Uttarpara seat on the Trinamool Congress ticket, left behind two daughters.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee condoled his demise. “I express my deep grief and condolence over the death of Anup Ghosal who had sung in Bengali, Hindi and other languages,” she mentioned.
A prolific singer, Ghoshal proved his versatility within the songs of Kaji Nazrul Islam, Rabindranath Tagore and trendy Bengali songs. As a playback singer, he had been related to Satyajit Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha, 1969) and Hirak Rajar Deshe (Kingdom of Diamonds, 1980).
Director Tapan Sinha additionally used his voice in his movie Sagina Mahato (1971). Other notable movies wherein Ghoshal was the playback singer embody Fuleswari, Marjina Abdalla and Chhadmabeshi. However, his rendition of Tujhse Naraz Nahi Zindagi in Gulzar-directed Masoom received hearts throughout the nation.
Besides Bengali and Hindi movies, he sang in motion pictures in a number of different Indian languages similar to Assamese and Bhojpuri.
Anup Ghoshal was born in 1945. He had his first initiation to music from his mom Labanya Ghoshal in his childhood. He later learnt classical music from Pt Sukhendu Goswami and later grew to become the topper in MA classical music at Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata.
In his transient political profession, Anup Ghoshal was nominated by Mamata Banerjee to contest from the Uttar Para meeting constituency in 2011. He received from there however didn’t contest some other election later.
