Anuradha Paudwal Songs: There were many names in the music world. Many singers earned their name in Bollywood while some achieved immense popularity by singing devotional songs. Singer Anuradha Paudwal is one of those singers who also sang film songs in Bollywood and many albums of her devotional songs were also released. The singer came in the late 80s and her popularity was highest in the 90s. There was a time when he was preferred over Lata and Asha Bhosle. But time had something else in store. In such a situation, let us know what was the reason that Anuradha Paudwal distanced herself from the film world and started singing bhajan songs.
Anuradha Paudwal Bollywood Career: Started career with Amitabh-Jaya’s film
The musical film Abhiman was released in the year 1973. The pairing of Amitabh and Jaya was very much liked in this film. All the songs of the film were also well liked. The special thing about this film was that Anuradha Paudwal, famous as Bhajan Queen, started her Bollywood career from this movie. After this, as she progressed, she touched the heights of success. He performed with many singers including Kumar Shaan, Suresh Wadekar and Udit Narayan.
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Lata-Asha started getting preference
The magic of Anuradha Paudwal’s voice was such that in the early 90s, no other singers got priority over her. In fact, there were some instances when music composers chose Anuradha instead of Lata-Asha or Kavita Krishnamurthy. His impact in the 90s can be gauged from the fact that the singer received the Filmfare Award for 3 consecutive years between 1991 and 1993, which is a record. Apart from this, he has been awarded D.Litt. by DY Patil University. Got secondary degree. She was the second singer after Lata Mangeshkar to receive this degree.
Anuradha Paudwal Duet with Kishore Kumar: Songs sung with Kishore-Rafi
He also sang songs in other languages including Bengali, Hindi and Marathi. According to reports, he sang around 10 thousand songs in his career and received many honors. His collaboration with music directors Nadeem-Shravan was amazing. It was Anuradha who recognized the talent of Nadeem-Shravan. He sang songs with legendary singers during his career. He also sang with Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Manna Dey, KJ Yesudas, SP Balasubramaniam, Udit Narayan, Mohammed Aziz and Mukesh. She also sang duets with Alka Yagnik, Asha Bhosle and Kavita Krishnamurthy.
Joined T series and Bollywood’s downfall started
When Anuradha Paudwal was at the peak of her career and had become a prominent singing face in the Bollywood industry, she joined Gulshan Kumar’s T-Series. This move backfired on him. His songs played less during this period and his popularity gradually started decreasing. During that time, he decided to leave the Bollywood industry and sing devotional songs completely. She did not appear in films for a long time and after the death of Gulshan Kumar, she again started collaborating with other music companies. His work was appreciated but he did not get the same popularity as before.
This is how she became a bhajan queen
This was the time when Lata-Asha were getting songs. Apart from this, singers like Alka Yagnik and Kavita Krishnamurthy had become established. This also affected Anuradha’s stardom. After this, Anuradha once again took the toughest decision of her life and she quit Bollywood forever and started singing bhajan songs completely. She had done this before and had always been singing devotional songs. The popularity of his bhajans was also strong. His first Devi bhajan Aaungi Aaungi Main Bars Bar Aaungi, 90 thousand cassettes were sold in a single day. After this his bhajans started being liked a lot. Anuradha is celebrating her 60th birthday and she still sings devotional songs. This gave her a new identity and even today she is known as the Bhajan Queen.
