Abhijeet Bhattacharya, better known as Abhijeet, is a Bollywood playback singer born to a Kanpur-based businessman turned editor Dhirendranath Bhattacharya, and his wife Kamladevi Bhattacharya in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Abhijeet was the youngest among the four sons in the family.
He married a fashion designer Sumati Bhattacharya in 1990 and has two sons Dhruv and Jai Bhattacharya. He has sung 6034 songs in over 1000 films. Abhijeet got his first break by the greatest composer RD Burman and his debut film was Anand Aur Anand in which he got chance to sing alongside his idols and mentors Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar.
Abhijeet got his second break in the film Baaghi with Anand Milind and after that his career began to flourish. He has sung songs in more than 18 languages including Bengali, Odia, Bhojpuri, Marathi and Gujarati. He won Film fare Award in 1997. He has also released many Indian pop albums. He has also judged Indian reality shows like Amul Star Voice Of India and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs several times.
Established in 1996, Lokhandwala Durga Puja became a household name in its first year itself. The Pujo was started by a small number of Bengali families in and around the area of Lokhandwala, Mumbai and in its first year of inception established itself as the Best Pujo in Mumbai. Under the stewardship of famous playback singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya, the Pujo has scaled unimaginable heights and has now become the undisputed No.1 celebration in the country.
The main motto of the Pujo is to keep alive and reflect the Rich Bengali Tradition and to showcase the same to the whole world. Bangla Art and Tradition has been the pride of every Bengali and the members are striving hard to maintain its necessary luster. This is the only Puja which initiates the celebrations from the fourth day of Navratri itself, with each day being celebrated with the same pomp and glory. Many creative souls are actively involved in the Pujo, in an attempt to make this grand celebration par excellence.
