Anuradha Paudwal Age, Biography, Husband, Children, Family & More

 

Anuradha Puaudwal: Some less-known facts

• Her parents were Konkani and she was born in Karwar, Uttara Kannada (Karnataka). But she was born in Mumbai.

• Anuradha claims that the Lataji song she heard on the radio sparked her passion for music.

• When she was in 4th standard, she dreamt of hearing Lataji’s voice live.

• She shared her hoarse voice in an interview.

• She suffered a serious attack of pneumonia during her childhood. She almost lost her voice and was eventually bedridden. for 40 days. In those 40 days, she listened to just one voice; Lataji’s.

• Anuradha received a recording from Bhagwad Geeta, which was in Lataji’s vocal style, when she was hospitalized. Her voice changed drastically after that. She began to mold her voice.

• Anuradha Paaudwal regards Lata Manngeshkar as a God. She credits her for all her achievements. She says, “I learnt under several gurus. She has been an inspiration to me. It’s like an institution.”

• Anuradha was active in school and college events and won many awards. She won the first award she received. for one of Lataji’s Meera bhajans.

• At one such school function, due to her hoarse voice, she was disqualified with the judges’ remark, “Voice unfit for Sugam Sangeet.”

• Arun, a music composer and her teenage love interest, was the reason she met Arun. Initially, her father didn’t approve of their marriage because of Arun’s connection with the film industry. Her father believed that girls from respectable families didn’t become a part of show business.

• Arun was only 17 years old when she met Arun and she was 17.

• Arun encouraged Arun to sing. Arun was actually her closest mentor and critic.

• Once, Arun brought her to one of Lataji’s (Lata Mangeshkar) recordings. Anuradha was listening so carefully that she could sing the song live on ‘Yuva Vani,’ a very popular Marathi programme; heard by a lot of people. Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, and several top composers called the radio station to find out who’d been singing. After a lot of time, they finally realized that the singer was Alka Nadakarni (maiden names of Anuradha Puaudwal). All of them offered to launch Anuradha Paaudwal but she wasn’t temperamentally inclined.

• SD Burman, an iconic musician who first offered the song to her (actually a Shiva Shloka), in Abhiman (1973 Hindi film). Amitabh Bachchan Jaya Bhaduri).

• When Abhiman was released, about 25 to 30 of her family members, friends neighbours went to to the Plaza Theatre just to see Anuradha’s name in the credits.

• Anuradha Paudwal’s 1st solo was in the film, Aap Beati, (starring Shashi Kapoor and Hema Malini).

• Anuradha Paudwal won her first major film award for the song “Mera Man Baje Mridang….” from the film Utsav (1984). She was surprised with the award as she had been hoping to win for Hero’s ‘Tu Mera Janoo Hai….’

• When she sang the song, ‘Tu Mera Janoo Hai….’ in Subhash Ghai’s film Hero (starring Jackie Shroff and Meenakshi Seshadri), it became a chartbuster. Initially, it was Lataji’s song, however, due to some reasons, the song went to Anuradha Paudwal.

• Most of the Subhash Ghai‘s films, Anuradha Paudwal was the signatory singer. She also sang a Gayatri Mantra which even today is a part of Mukta Arts emblem.

• In the mid-1980s, Anuradha Paudwal recorded 23 songs with Nadeem-Shravan. Later, the songs were used in three films directed by Mahesh Bhatt– Aashiqui, Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin and Sadak.

• She became the voice for the 90s. Madhuri DixitHe was on the brink of being a star. Remember “Bahut Pyaar Karte Hain Tumko Sanam”, the song just refused to go out of the music charts.

• With her songs in the films- Aashiqui, Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin, and Sadak, she rose to the pinnacle of her singing career. She was also going to be a singer. through a personal low as in the year 1983, she lost a daughter who was just one month old. Arun was her husband. Her withdrawal from film was evident in the late 1990s when she announced that she would only be singing. for T-Series took up singing devotionals. This was a great stand. Alka Yagnik Who just soared to the top. Her deep spiritual interest led to the decision of devotional over material.

• With the T-Series mogul, she had a strong bond. Gulshan Kumar. Her attitude towards success was changed after her husband was killed in an August 1997 shooting. She says, “Today, when I have a hit, it feels nice, but that’s it.”

• After her husband, Arun’s death, her son, Aditya, became one of the youngest music composers in the film industry. Kavita, her daughter, is also an actor and playback singer.

• Anuradha has a Foundation named ‘Suryauday’ in the memory of her late husband, Arun.

• In an interview she said that she didn’t receive any classical music training. She said, “I just practised for many hours listening to Lataji.”

• Anuradha Paaudwal, along with Gulshan, was instrumental in bringing several undiscovered playback singers to prominence, including Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, Sonu Nigam, Abhijeet, etc.

• She has sung in Kannada, Marwari, Marathi, Sanskrit, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Oriya, Punjabi, Assamese, among other languages. Many of her songs went on to be chartbusters.

• Everyone predicted that Lata Mangeshkar would be replaced when she first entered the film business. O P Nayyar, a veteran composer commented on the matter.
  

  Lata is finished, Anuradha has replaced her.” Being a content person, she neither expected nor aspired for The moon. She says, “I was highly satisfied with what I received from the audience and industry. I felt that it is always better to retire when on the pinnacle Nahi To Log Darwaza Dikha Dete Hain (otherwise you are shown the door).”

• In an interview, she revealed that she has a desire to record poetries and the works of Shankaracharya.

• Here’s a glimpse of Anuradha Paudwal’s life and her singing journey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VVMEf46Xfc