Vasundhara Das

                  Present – 1994 

Hindi , Tamil , Telugu , Malayalam , Kannada    

               Vasundhara das (born 1977) , is associate degree indian singer and thespian. she has acted in hind i, tamil , kannada and Malayalam films. she is that the co-founder of world music band arya. as a playback singer, she is best remembered for singing "shakalaka baby" from the tamil film mudhalvan , that was conjointly her debut song. she has performed several hit songs in hindi and tamil films thenceforth. 

Life

             Vasundhara das was born into a tamil speaking hebbar iyengar brahmin family in metropolis. she studied at cluny convent highschool , Bangalore , and range of mountains faculty , Bangalore , graduating in social science and arithmetic.

              She began coaching in hindustani genre at the age of six. she accustomed run faraway from home to avoid taking music lessons. in her faculty days she was a part of associate all-girl band. she will play some flamenco strums on her stringed instrument.

            She speaks tamil, kannada, hindi, telugu and english.

            Vasundhara das married her long-time friend roberto narain. roberto belongs to the music organization, ‘arya’ and is additionally a talented musician . 

Career

Actor : 

                 Vasundhara began acting with the kamal haasan film hey ram (1999) and commenced her playback singing career with a. r. rahman's tamil film mudhalvan. she was thought of for the role of heroine by mani ratnam in his flick alaipayuthey opposite r. madhavan. she compete heroine aboard mohanlal within the blockbuster malayalam flick raavanaprabhu , the feminine lead role opposite ajith within the tamil flick national , and heroine opposite dharshan tugdeep within the kanarese flick lankesh pathrike. she additionally appeared within the hindi t.v. serial rab ne banadi jodi and a preferred hindi flick monsoon wedding. 

Singer : 

             She moved her base from metropolis to mumbai and based a musical band named arya with roberto narain. the band contains musicians from numerous backgrounds in world music starting from hindustani and carnatic musical style to jazz , latin , rock and pop. roberto narain plays the drums and vasundhara provides western and indian vocals. arya’s music is generally classified as world music. arya’s 1st performance was at the distinguished competition la mar american state musicas in european country in 2003. the band toured the us in september 2004.

            Her breakthrough as a playback singer came with "shakalaka baby", the song that she is best acknowledged for. she herbaceous plant it for the 1999 tamil film mudhalvan , below musician a. r. rahman. she later recorded most of her hit songs with rahman in tamil moreover as in hindi. her breakthrough in film industry came within the 2001 film aks with songs like "rabba rabba" that she was appointive for the 2002 filmfare best feminine playback award.                She has sung one song "pattu infective agent thottu vittadhaal" for ilaiyaraaja within the tamil film dhanush directed by a.m. gurumani. she has sung associate english song within the hindi film lagaan for a people character compete by married woman Shelley , once more underneath a. r. rahman. her most far-famed hindi song is "it's the time to disco" within the film kal atomic number 67 sodium atomic number 67 sung for preity zinta . she is additionally renowned for the song "kattipudi kattipudi da" within the film kushi. she typically sings for the thespian preity zinta among others. she has conjointly sung for the hit film jaane tu ya jaane naa.
              

                   Vasundhara das singing live at a concert in metropolis

              She has recorded her own album of non-film songs. she has sung in French , English , kannada , tamil , hindi and telugu. she has conjointly sung a song known as "tide" with ashu and dhruv for the show channel v jammin the song is enclosed within the jammin' album. she performed in yuva dasara 2011 at mysore , karnataka. her latest performance happened in ekatvam unionised by mahindra satyam at hyderabad on twenty eight gregorian calendar month 2012.

Songs 

2008 : Jaane tu … ya jaane na 

2008 : Ugly aur pagli

2006 : Corporate

2006 : Kabhi alvida naa kehna

2005 : Ek dastak

2003 : Kal ho naa ho

2005 : Kudiyon ka hai zamana

2004 : Pathar bezubaan

2003 : Flimstar


2000 : Monsoon wedding

1999 : Hey ram