Award-winning playback singer Udit Narayan who has mesmerized music fans with his scintillating voice for more than three decades, singing in 32 languages, will perform live in Colombo on Saturday June 16 at the CH &FC.
Songs that featured in recent Bollywood hits like Lagaan, Darr, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Dil To Pagal Hai, Mohabbatein, Devdas, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Swades and Veer Zaara spoke volumes of Udit's singing flair.
He has also been hailed as the screen voice of Shahrukh Khan for whom he has lent his voice in several hit movies.
Udit who was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India three years ago, moved to Bombay in 1979 from Nepal where he was born in December 1955.
Having made his break in 1980 as a playback singer in 'Unees Bees', with singing legend Mohamed Rafi, Udit did not take long to climb the ladder, proving his outstanding prowess in every song he sang.
As a playback singer he excelled in commercial, Maithili, Hindi, Kannada, Nepali, Urdu, Bhojpuri, Garhwali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Oriya, Assamese, Maithili and Bengali language cinema clinching loads of awards including the national and film fare awards.
Udit Narayan began his career in Nepal singing for Radio Nepal as a staff artiste for Maithili and Nepali folk songs. He sang many popular Nepali folk, modern songs in Radio Nepal. His first filmy playback singing was for a Nepali film Sindur.
The actual success story of his career began in 1988 when Anand-Milind gave him the opportunity to sing all the songs for the successful Bollywood movie Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, earning him a Film fare Award and making him one of the leading playback singers in the Indian film industry.
He has worked with musicians like Rahul Dev Burman, Rajesh Roshan, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Kalyanji-Anandji, Bappi Lahiri, A. R. Rahman, Anand-Milind, Nadeem-Shravan, Jatin Lalit, Anu Malik, Jagjit Singh, Uttam Singh, Raam Laxman, Ilayaraja, Bhupen Hazarika, Shiv-Hari, Ravindra Jain, Madan Mohan, Vishal Bhardwaj, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Himesh Reshammiya, Viju Shah, Vidyasagar, M. M. Keeravani, Ismail Darbar, Anand Raj Anand, Aadesh Shrivastava, Arun Paudwal, Pritam Chakraborty, Sajid-Wajid, Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sohail Sen, Nikhil Vinay, Sandesh Shandilya, Ram Sampath, Rahul Sharma, Daboo Malik, Sukhwinder Singh, Roop Kumar Rathod, Adnan Sami, Sanjeev Darshan, Vishal-Shekhar, Ajay-Atul, and directors like Yash Chopra, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Ashutosh Gowariker and Karan Johar.
Some of those films include Lagaan, Darr, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Dil To Pagal Hai, Mohabbatein, Devdas, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Swades and Veer Zaara.
Udit's capability as a playback singer knows no bounds, as he has been magnanimously acclaimed in every kind of melody - soulful, romantic, fast-paced and recently, even pop.
Udit has an extremely versatile tone which appears to flawlessly suit every Indian hero on screen.
And today, innumerable awards and accolades later, Udit Narayan possesses one of the largest arrays of hit songs in the industry.
Many musical biggies like Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Pankaj Udhas and Anup Jalota believe that Udit Narayan is the best in his generation for his quality in voice and originality.
Date: 16 June 2012
Venue: CH & FC Colombo
Time: 7 pm onwards
Tickets: 7500 (Platinum – limited amount)
5000/= (Gold)
3000/= (Silver)
1000/= (Bronze)
Available at Singer Mega - Mount Lavinia, Kiribathgoda, Negombo, Rajagiriya, Wattala, Kandy, Maharagama
Salaka Senkada – Union Place, Borella and Nugegoda
Vibrations Outlets
Taj Samudra Hotel
For more info - 0773892323 - 0727318304 - 0714974974
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