Indrani Sen is an Indian singer who is known for her Bengali Nazrul Geeti and

Rabindra Sangeet ''Rabindra Sangeet'' (; ), also known as Tagore Songs, are songs from the Indian subcontinent written and composed by the Bengalis, Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore, winner of the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Indian and also the ...

songs.

Early life

Indrani Sen is the daughter of singer Sumitra Sen, and her younger sister is Srabani Sen. Her earliest singing was done under her mother's guidance; she then attended Bengal Music College at the

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta, informally known as Calcutta University (), is a Public university, public State university (India), state university located in Kolkata, Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate c ...

, and was later trained by Debabrata Biswas in classical and Purabi Dutta in Nazrul geeti. She is also the head of the department of economics at Women's College,Calcutta in Kolkata. Her mother, Sumitra Sen died on 3 January 2023 at the age of 89.

Awards & achievements

She won BFJA's Best Female Playback Award- 1993 for the film ''Shwet Patharer Thala'' and BFJA's Best Female Playback Award- 1995 for the film ''Sandhya Tara''. She is a playback singer for Hindi films, Bengali films and T. V serials, and the recipient of several awards, including Banga Bhushan from the Government of West Bengal. Sen performed at the joint India and Bangladesh celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of Nobel laureate

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renai ...

at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC), High Commission of India in 2012.

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