Monday, August 25, 2003 |  | Web Jingle | | ...kehte hain mujhko Hawa Hawaii Amit Puri SHARDA Krishnamurthi, aka Kavita Krishnamurthy, was exposed to classical music and dance from a very early age. Her father, a government official, and her mother encouraged her to learn music since childhood. Jaya Chakravarty, Hema Malini's mother, suggested Kavita that she sing for Bollywood and try her luck in filmdom. Though her father was apprehensive initially, yet later Kavita managed to assure him that she would complete her college education first. Kavita did her Bachelors in Economics from St. Xaviers' College, Mumbai, which helped her get some exposure. Later, she came across Ranu Mukherjee, a singer and the late composer-singer Hemant Kumar's daughter, who was her classmate. She introduced Kavita to her father. Kavita's first recording was a Bengali film duet with Lata Mangeshkar in 1971. Hemant Kumar was impressed by her performance and gave her chance to perform on stage with him. Later she sang with Manna De. She was widely noticed in the TV music show ā Aarohi, with Manna De and got chances to do jingles. After a long struggle, her major success was the song Hawa hawaii for the film, Mr India. Once on firm footing, she sang many songs for movies like Saaz, Mohra, Vinashak, 1942 - A Love Story, Eeshwar, Viraasat, Chaalbaaz, Gupt, Tere Mere Sapne, Hum dil de chuke sanam, Deewangi, Zubeidaa, Astitva, Moksha, Koi mil gaya and many more. |