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Anuradha Paudwal is the popular Indian playback singer and politician who is working predominantly in Indian cinema. Anuradha Paudwal is majorly known as most prominent bhajan Singer. Anuradha Paudwal was born on 27^th Oct 1954. Anuradha Paudwal was popular playback singer of Bollywood during 80s and 90s. Only few people know that real name of Anuradha Paudwal is Alka Nadakarni.

Awards

Anuradha Paudwal had won many awards for her singing. Anuradha Paudwal got National Film Award, 4 Filmfare Awards and 2 Odisha State Film Awards. As well as Anuradha Paudwal was honoured with Padma Shri award by Government of India.

As well as she is rewarded with many other awards like “Mahakaal Award” by Madhya Pradesh Govt., Mother Teresa Award, Lata Mangeskar Award, Mohammed Award and many more.

Career

Anuradha Paudwal started her career in 1973 with Hindi film Abhiman which was composed by S. D. Burman. Anuradha Paudwal also sung many songs in Marathi, Tamil, Odia, Nepali, Bengali and Kannada films.

Beginnings and success

Before coming to Bollywood, she sang in radio shows. Her music career began in 1973 with the film Abhiman, in which she sang Sanskrit poetry for Jaya Bhaduri. In the 1970s, she sang some popular songs, which were praised by both composers and audiences, but were not very popular. At that time, she was singing as a voice actress.

She rose to fame with the song “Tu Mera Janu Hai” along with Manhar Udhas in the film Hero. She had been asked to “dub” the song to real-life singer Lata Mangeshkar. It was then decided that Lataji would sing the song in the actual recording. However, when music director duo Lakshmikant-Pyarelal heard Anuradha’s version, they decided that as the film also featured the debut of actress Meenakshi Seshadri, the song too should be sung by a new voice. She then performed with Mohammed Aziz in the mid-80s, and the duo became hugely popular with the audience. It was at this time that Anuradha Paudwal began climbing the ladder of success. She then sang with some of the eminent singers of the time and collaborated with many composers. It was then that she met Nadeem Shravan, who was having trouble at the time. She listened to some of their songs and asked him to compose for her. They composed 23 songs, which she sang with Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Babla Mehta among others. Ten of these were released as part of the Chahat album and later as film songs in the 1990 film Aashiqui. As an established singer

When the music for the film Aashiqui was released, she quickly became popular. She launched Anuradha Paudwal into success as a playback singer. This was followed in 1991 by Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin and Sadak, which were also huge successes. Several other albums released during this period established her as a singer and she was often given priority over her Mangeshkar sisters. When she was at the peak of her career, she decided to sing exclusively for T-Series. And after that, her hugely successful Bollywood career slowly started to fade, giving way to the rise of other playback singers like Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurti and Sadhana Sargam.

As a Bhajan Singer

After leaving Bollywood, she started singing religious songs. A day before Navratri, Gulshan Kumar asked Anuradha Paudwal to sing religious songs of Maa Durga. Anuradha sang these bhajans, which sold out as soon as they were released. She then started singing religious songs one after the other and never looked back. Her bhajans are very popular in India, especially Shiv Bhajan and Durga Bhajan. Besides Hindu Bhajans, she also sang religious songs of Islam, Christianity, Jainism, Buddha and Sikhism. She has sung thousands of Bhajans and is still active as a Bhajan singer.

Re-entry into Bollywood

After Gulshan Kumar’s murder in 1997, Anuradha Paudwal again started singing for other music labels. She started working again with Tips Industries, Venus Records & Tapes etc. She had some of the best songs and became popular again, but at that time Alka Yagnik was ruling the industry and Anuradha Paudwal did not enjoy the success she had earlier. She continued singing till 2006, after which she left Bollywood.

Work with other singers

Anuradha Paudwal had started her career in 1973. She had worked with many popular singers like Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, S.P. Balasubrahmanyam, Yesudas, Manna Dey, Mohammed Aziz, Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam, Mukesh, Pankaj Udhas, Manhar Udhas, Suresh Wadkar, Nitin Mukesh, Abhijeet Bhattacharya and many more male singers.

As well as Anuradha Paudwal had worked with Kavita Krishnamurti, Alka Yagnik, Sadhana Sargam, Asha Bhosle and many more female singers.

In 2006 Anuradha Paudwal left Bollywood and started singing only Bhajans. “Palkein uthake Dekhiye” was her last song from the movie “Jaane Hoga Kya”.

Controversies

Once Alka Yagnik blamed Anuradha Paudwal for stealing her songs and debuting them in her own voice.

In 2020, a 45-year-old woman claimed that she is the daughter of Anuradha Paudwal.

Family

Anuradha Paudwal whose real name is Alka Nadkarni married to Arun Paudwal in 1969. From her marriage Anuradha Paudwal has 3 children (2 daughters and 1 son). Unfortunately, her 1 daughter died as the age of 1 month only.

Anuradha Paudwal’s son name is Aditya Paudwal who died on 12 Sep 2020 at the age of 35.

Anuradha Paudwal’s daughter name is Kavita Paudwal

Anuradha Paudwal’s husband Arun Paudwal died on 1 Nov. 1991 at the age of 47.

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