
The movie as well as the songs were a grand success. Kumar Sanu got his major break when Gulshan Kumar with music directors Nadeem and Shravan gave him chance to sing most of the songs of movie Aashiqui (1990), songs were recorded earlier for an album and later movie was made around the songs. Sanu with Shravan Rathod and Thakur Doultani Kumar Sanu lived at Panchanan tala at Gopal Bose Lane in Sinthi area at North Kolkata. The two and Sanu's elder sister lived in the Sinthee area of Calcutta (now Kolkata) near Biswanath Park.

Kumar Sanu's father, Pashupati Bhattacharya, was a vocalist and composer. Many of his tracks feature in BBC's "Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time". For his contribution to Indian cinema and music, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009 by the Government of India. He holds the record for winning five consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer from 1990 to 1994. Apart from Hindi, he has also sung in other languages including Bengali, Marathi, Nepali, Assamese, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Manipuri, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Punjabi, Odia, Chhattisgarhi, Urdu, Pali, English and his native language Bengali, both in West Bengal and Bangladesh.

He is famous for singing thousands of Bollywood Hindi songs.


He is known as the King of Melody in Bollywood. Kedarnath Bhattacharya (born 20 October 1957), professionally known as Kumar Sanu, is an Indian playback singer.
