FROM THE LANGHAM, LONDON TO HILLSONG, BRISBANE

IN harmony with the cultural ethos of Deo Family Charity Foundation, and in association with the JD Media Corp and organized by events guru Jitendra & Imran the Hindi speaking Queensland Indians enthusiastically awaits the globally renown Indian singer sensation Abhijeet Bhattacharya’s personal appearance in concert here in Brisbane, Hillsong Center, Upper Mount Gravatt on October 19th, 6.30pm. Jitendra & Imran event gurus are envisaging the sitting capacity of 1,500   at Hillsong is filling up very quickly through Star Tickets sales and late booking may be disappointed.

Recently, at The Langham concert venue in London, the Bollywood backing vocalist Abhijeet Bhattacharya mesmerized the London audience with his melodies tunes. You should never miss this opportunity brought right here to the Queensland Capital. He has performed live in nearly every country in the Hindi speaking world.

Abhijeet Bhattacharya, professionally known as Abhijeet is a Bollywood playback singer was born in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India in October 1958. Ironically, his parents were against his singing as education was the professional pursuance Kanpur parents strive and dreamt for their children. Abhijeet was the youngest of four brothers, so in 1981 he went to Mumbai to study Finance and Accountancy.

But his childhood   fascination for singing and music got the better of him and Abhijeet made the life changing decision to pursue a career in playback singing. Later started his singing career in the late 1980’s, now is renowned to have has sung in more than 18 languages. Rightly so, he was recognized in the industry where Abhijeet Bhattacharya won a Filmfare Award in 1997!   Abijeet also has served as a judge for Indian reality television series including Indian Idol.

Today, according to Industry publication and sources “……. Abhijeet is one of the top names when it comes to male playback singers. He has entrenched himself firmly in the music world, with several other hits like ‘Ole Ole’ in Yeh Dillagi, the title track of Main Khiladi Tu Anari, ‘Zara sa Jhoom loo main’ Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge ‘Teri ankhen jhuki jhuki’ Fareb, ‘Shaher Ki ladki’ Rakshak, ‘Jhanjhriya’ Krishna, ‘Tan tana tan tan tara’ Judwaa. Be it a Sunil Shetty, Anil Kapoor, Akshay Kumar, Saif Ali Khan , or Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan and now Hrithik Roshan, Abhijeet has sung for them all. He performed for many films like Baaghi, Sadak, Khiladi, Raja Babu, Yeh Dillagi, Yes Boss, Baadshah, Josh and Dhadkan and many more. After his success in playback singing, he thought of singing pop. He launched two albums, Main Deewana Hoon and Tapori No. 1. But both albums did not click commercially. After these two pop albums, he launched Aashiqui, which was appreciated by audience. Recently he has launched a pop album, Tere Bina, whose songs and video are chartbusters….”

Your Brisbane Indian Times opinion of Abhijeet as a contemporary Intergenerational singer and performer, a gift to mankind, we say!  Today the star-singer lives in a Bollywood dream bungalow (named Sunny vistas) of white façade and red-tiled roof. He was the apple of the eye of the community for his singing talents and pampered and cherished by a loving family of his lovely wife Sumati Bhattacharya and their two children.

Abhijeet Bhattacharya is not only a vocalist, but also an accomplished musician and with ease plays guitar and drums and is also a recognized composer. His achievement has led him also be a real estate businessman.

In reminiscing about his humble beginning Abhijeet recalled   the day he was packing his bags to go back to Kanpur after a long struggle in Bombay when he received a call from R.D. Burman to sing for Dev Anand’s son’s debut film.  R.D Burman who passed away in 1994   is one of the greatest and most successful music directors of the Hindi film music industry. The late Burman composed musical scores for 331 films. Later Abhijeet also got to sing with Kishore Kumar, his idol, in the same film. It all happened to Abhijeet as he received a new lease of life when music director Ravindra Jain gave him an offer to live with him. Ravindra Jain a.k.a Ravinder Sharma is a well known music director, who has given some very popular musical scores in hindi films in the 1970s and early 1980s. He was born, blind, in Aligarh on 28th February in 1944.

It was during his stay with Ravindra that Abhijeet’s proximity to Bollywood grew in a phased and gradual manner. He began vis iting R.D. Burman’s residence and started getting frequent opportunities to sing for stage shows. Abhijeet got opportunities to sing as a chorus singer for music directors Rajesh Roshan and Jagjit Singh. It was R.D. Burman who acted like a mentor to Abhijeet and gave hi m his first break as a playback singer in Dev Anand’s Anand Aur Anand.

In his exemplary charting busting career Abhijeet has sung 6034 songs in more than 1000 films. He was nominated for Forbes Popular 100 Indian Celebrity in the year 2014.

When Abhijeet walks onto our Brisbane Hillsong stage on October 19th stage it will be with pomp and aura so captivating for i n front of you is the one and only Abhijeet whose journey to that stage has been remarkable unsurpassed achievement in the Bollywoo d and Hindi performance industry.

It will be majestically sensational, and you’ll be forgiven should you loss a heartbeat thinking the 30 year reign of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is resurrected right before your eyes in the Sun State! For Abhijeet facial resemblance of the late Egyptian President is Astonishingly close and warms the hearts of many Egyptians.

No doubt Abhijeet deservingly is an Industry royalty in his own right, with respect, he is   revered in Cairo- Egypt, London-UK, Seoul- South Korea and in many global entertainment venues.

You would not want to miss him here in Brisbane, Queensland, would you?