Madhubanti Bagchi[1] (Bengali pronunciation: [modʱubonti bagt͡ʃi]) is an Indian singer and composer musician.[2] A disciple of the Agra Gharana, her repertoire includes the genres of Indian classical, pop and playback singing.[3][4]
Madhubanti Bagchi | |
|---|---|
 Bagchi in 2024 | |
| Born | Balurghat, West Bengal, India |
| Education | Bachelor of Engineering |
| Occupations |
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| Years active | 2013–present |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | |
| Instrument | Vocals |
Madhubanti performs as a playback singer for Bollywood films and other Indian film industries.[5] She has collaborated with leading composers like Pritam, Amit Trivedi, Sachin-Jigar, Debojyoti Mishra, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Shekhar Ravjiani, Shantanu Moitra and has rendered her voice in Hindi films such as Uunchai (2022), Doctor G (2022), Good Luck Jerry (2022), Hum Do Hamare Do (2021), Laxmii (2020), Love Aaj Kal (2020) and Heeramandi (2024).[6]
She has left a mark of her craft in the Bengali film industry with songs in films like Kuler Achaar (2022), Boudi Canteen (2022), Shah Jahan Regency (2019), Ahare Mon (2018), Shob Bhooturey (2017), Gangster (2016), Shudhu Tomari Jonyo (2015) and Ami Aar Amar Girlfriends (2013).
In 2022, she also featured in the first season of Coke Studio Bangla.[7] The song Aaj Ki Raat from Stree 2 has garnered 765 million+ views on YouTube.[8][9]
Early life and career
editMadhubanti was born in Balurghat, West Bengal india. Her father, Subrata Bagchi is a professor and her mother Srabani Bagchi, is a businesswoman. She holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering from the Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata. She completed her master's degree in Laser and Optical Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.[10]
She was introduced to music by her father and received her initial training under his tutelage. When she was in the third standard she started her formal training with the Agra gharana exponent Shrimati Subhra Guha. Later, she had also taken lessons from the renowned thumri singer Vidushi Purnima Chowdhury.
She has also been part of a Bengali band called Mrittika.[11]
Discography
editFilm songs
editBengali
edit| Year | Song | Film | Lyricist(s) | Composer(s) | Co-singer(s) | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | "Na Na Shey Phirbey Na Aar" | Ami Aar Amar Girlfriends | Anindo Bose | Neel Dutt | Suyasha Sengupta, Reya Kundu | ||
| "Mannequin" | Anindo Bose | Neel Dutt | |||||
| 2015 | "Lilabali" | Cross Connection 2 | Traditional | Neel Dutt | Ujjaini Mukherjee, Arko | ||
| "Kanamachhi" | Souvik Misra | Neel Dutt | Dibbendu | ||||
| "Egiye De" | Shudhu Tomari Jonyo | Prasen | Arindom Chatterjee | Arijit Singh | |||
| 2016 | "Item Bomb" | Kelor Kirti | Prasen | Indraadip Dasgupta | Rana Mazumder | ||
| "Tomake Chai - Reprise" | Gangster | Prasen | Arindom Chatterjee | ||||
| "THE CRY...Ami Devi" | Teenanko | Bithin Das | Arko | Arko | |||
| "Ki Gabo Ami" | Rabindranath Tagore | Rabindranath Tagore | |||||
| 2018 | "Tor Premer Brishtite" | Chaalbaaz | Anyaman | Savvy Gupta | Armaan Malik | ||
| "Aish Kori" | Savvy Gupta | Savvy Gupta | Savvy Gupta | ||||
| 2019 | "Kichchu Chaini Ami" | Shah Jahan Regency | Dipangshu Acharya | Prasen | |||
| 2020 | "Madhu Mashey Phul Photey" | Maayakumari | Subhendu Dasmunshi | Bickram Ghosh | |||
| 2022 | "Bhul Koreche Bhul" | Kuler Achaar | Prasen | Prasen-Mainak | Mahtim Shakib | [12] |
Hindi
edit| Year | Song | Film | Lyricist(s) | Composer(s) | Co-singer(s) | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | "Tanha Tanha" | Yours Truly | Amitabh Varma | Debojyoti Mishra | |||
| 2020 | "Shayad (Film Version)" | Love Aaj Kal | Irshad Kamil | Pritam | Arijit Singh | ||
| "Burjkhalifa" | Laxmii | Gagan Ahuja | Shashi–DJ Khushi | Shashi–DJ Khushi, Nikhita Gandhi | Disney Plus Hotstar film | ||
| 2021 | "Barbaadiyan" | Shiddat | Priya Saraiya | Sachin–Jigar | Sachet Tandon, Nikhita Gandhi | [13] | |
| "Bansuri" | Hum Do Hamare Do | Shellee | Dev Negi, Asees Kaur, IP Singh | ||||
| 2022 | "Jhand Ba" | Good Luck Jerry | Raj Shekhar | Parag Chhabra | [14] | ||
| "Jhand Ba" (Sad) | |||||||
| "Ek Boond" | Doctor G | Puneet Sharma | Amit Trivedi | Abhay Jodhpurkar | |||
| "Savera" | Uunchai | Irshad Kamil | Javed Ali, Deepali Sathe | ||||
| 2023 | "Ek Taara" | Mast Mein Rehne Ka | Vijay Maurya | Anurag Saikia | Vishal Mishra | Amazon Prime Video film | |
| "Ek Taara" (Reprise) | Keshav Tyohar | [15] | |||||
| "Bachpan Ki Galiyan" | Goldfish | Kausar Munir | Tapas Relia | ||||
| "Aami Jaani Re" | Mrs. Chatterjee vs Norway | Amit Trivedi | |||||
| "Zara Hat Ke" | Lost | Swanand Kirkire | Shantanu Moitra | Zee5 film | |||
| 2024 | "Mann Lovely" | Tera Kya Hoga Lovely | Irshad Kamil | Amit Trivedi | Abhay Jodhpurkar | ||
| "Mann Lovely" (Version 2) | Raj Barman | ||||||
| "Aaj Ki Raat" | Stree 2 | Amitabh Bhattacharya | Sachin–Jigar | Divya Kumar, Sachin–Jigar | |||
| "Geeli Maachis " | Vanvaas | Sayeed Quadri | Mithoon | Shadaab Faridi, Mithoon | |||
| "Peelings" | Pushpa 2: The Rule | Raqueeb Alam | Devi Sri Prasad | Javed Ali | Dubbed version | ||
| 2025 | "Uyi Amma" | Azaad | Amitabh Bhattacharya | Amit Trivedi | |||
| "Loveyapa Ho Gaya" | Loveyapa | Som | White Noise Collectives | Nakash Aziz | |||
| "Galatfehmi" | Nadaaniyan | Amitabh Bhattacharya | Sachin-Jigar | Tushar Joshi | Netflix film | ||
Other languages
edit| Year | Song | Film | Lyricist(s) | Composer(s) | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | "Vairaagi Re" | Chabutro | Niren Bhatt | Siddharth Amit Bhavsar | Gujarati |
| 2024 | "Jheeli Le" | Vanilla Ice Cream | |||
| "Harakhta Malakta" |
Non-film
editMadhubanti released her debut single "Bhool Ja" in 2020.[16]
In the year 2022 Madhubanti released her first independent song "Raat Chhuye Jak".
| Year | Song | Singer(s) | Lyricist(s) | Composer(s) | Language | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | "Hamari Atariya Pe" | Madhubanti Bagchi | Traditional | Music Produced & Arranged By: Nilanjan Ghosh & Pradyut Chatterjea | Hindi | ||
| 2019 | "Naam Ada Likhna" | Madhubanti Bagchi, Shreyas Puranik | Gulzar | Music Re-created by Shreyas Puranik | Hindi | ||
| 2019 | "Rehne Do Zara" | Madhubanti Bagchi | Kunaal Vermaa | Anurag Saikia | Hindi | [17] | |
| 2020 | "Ab Ke Saawan" | Madhubanti Bagchi | Bhargav Purohit | Sachin-Jigar | Hindi | [18] | |
| 2020 | "Bhool Ja" | Madhubanti Bagchi | Siddharth Amit Bhavsar | Siddharth Amit Bhavsar | Hindi | [19] | |
| 2022 | "Raat Chhuye Jak" | Madhubanti Bagchi | Aviman Paul | Rupak Tiary | Bengali | ||
| 2022 | "Rootha Re" | Madhubanti Bagchi, Vivek Hariharan | Sufi Khan | Romy | Hindi | ||
| 2022 | "Dokhino Hawa" | Madhubanti Bagchi, Tahsan Rahman Khan | Meera Dev Burman | S D Burman, music recreated for Coke Studio Bangla by Shayan Chowdhury Arnob | Bengali | [20] | |
| 2022 | "Siva Tere" | Madhubanti Bagchi | A.M. Turaz | Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Hindi | [21][22][23] | |
| 2023 | "Khamakha" | Madhubanti Bagchi | Akshayraje Shinde | Madhubanti Bagchi | Hindi | ||
| 2023 | "Labon Se Baat" | Madhubanti Bagchi | Priya Saraiya | Shekhar Ravjiani | Hindi |
Web series (OTT)
editIn the year 2021 Madhubanti made debut on the OTT platforms. She collaborated with National-Award-winning lyricist Swanand Kirkire and Daniel B. George for the OTT web series Grahan.[24] In 2024, she again collaborated with Sanjay Leela Bhansali for his acclaimed web series on Netflix, Heeramandi.[25]
| Year | Song | WebSeries | Singer(s) | Lyricist(s) | Composer(s) | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | "Harjaayi" | "The Bombay Begums" | Madhubanti Bagchi | Ginny Diwan | Anand Bhaskar | Hindi |
| "Teri Parchayee" | "Grahan" | Madhubanti Bagchi, Swanand Kirkire | Swanand Kirkire | Daniel B. George | Hindi | |
| "Zindagi" | "Ajeeb Daastaans" | Madhubanti Bagchi | Tanishk Bagchi | Tanishk Bagchi | Hindi | |
| 2022 | "Jogiye" | "Masoom" | Madhubanti Bagchi, Anand Bhaskar | Ginny Diwan | Anand Bhaskar | Hindi |
| 2024 | "Nazariya Ki Maari" | Heeramandi | Madhubanti Bagchi, Anand Bhaskar | Traditional | Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Hindi |
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