Abhijeet Genre: Pop/World/Reggae, Film/Bollywood, India Hometown: India
Success in Bollywood is not easy to come by. Especially for
playback singers, success is very elusive. Despite being gifted
with a melodious voice, an aspiring playback singer in Bollywood
has to struggle and strive consistently to secure a break as a
singer.
Abhijeet Bhattacharya, now better known as Abhijeet came from
a middle-class Bengali family from Kanpur (UP). But to the astonishment
of his many fans Abhijeet, the youngest of four brothers, came
down to Mumbai in 1981 to study Chartered Accountancy. But owing
to his fascination for singing and music he abandoned accountancy
halfway and decided to struggle for a place in Bollywood as a
playback singer.
Abhijeet, in pursuit of his dream, passed his years of trial and
tribulation in cramped, tiny rooms and stingy guesthouses. Due
to economic constraints, Abhijeet returned to Kanpur a dejected
man only to be drawn each time to the magnetism of Mumbai.
