Shweta Pandit

Biography

Shweta Pandit (born 7 July 1986) is an Indian singer and actress who primarily works in Hindi cinema. She has also recorded songs for films in Telugu and Tamil and many other Indian languages.

Music career

At the age of four, Pandit worked with Indian composer Ilayaraja for the Tamil film Anjali, which was re-recorded in Hindi. She re-dubbed for the lead child in the film and also sang the songs in Hindi.
She had her breakthrough with Yash Raj Films and Aditya Chopra's Mohabbatein (2000) with five songs at the age of fourteen. She was chosen to sing in the film after she auditioned for the final selection amongst several singers. Her notable hits include "Ishq Khudai" from Rudraksh (2003), "Halla Re" from Neal 'n' Nikki (2005), "Chorre ki baatein" from Fight Club (2006), "You're my love" from Partner (2007), "Tera Sarapa" from Welcome (2007), "Bandhane Lagi" from Naach (2005), "Jhini Jhini" from Sarkar Raj (2008), "Raghupati Raghav" from Satyagraha (2011), "Chadha de Rang" from Yamla Pagla Deewana (2011), Thug le" from Ladies vs Ricky Bahl (2011), "Madhubala" from Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (2011), "Tere Hoke Rahenge" from Raja Natwarlal (2014), and "Heera" from Highway (2014).
Her debut record album Main Zindagi Hoon (2002) released when she was only sixteen years old with EMI Virgin Records, India, making her the youngest Indian Pop star. She released three videos from this album. Her other pop albums include Aplam Chaplam (2005) featuring Bollywood superstar Salman Khan. Strumm Sound Digital released two unwind remix videos featuring her, titled "Pyar mein kabhi kabhi" and the Sufi classic "Allah hoo" (2017). Indian TV channel Tata Sky released two Indian ghazal videos featuring her in their maiden venture featuring "Main aur meri Awaargi" and "Sukoon-e-dil" (2015).
In 2011, Pandit collaborated with popular Punjabi singer and actor Harbhajan Mann for the song Sun Mere Chann Mahiya for the album Heer Ranjha (OST).
In 2012, Pandit was introduced in the Tamil playback singing industry with a hat trick of releases for composer Yuvan Shankar Raja. Vettai, Billa II and Aadhi Baghavan fetching her the finest reviews for her renditions and also winning awards for the same.

Television

Pandit's first reality television show as a playback singer in 2008, Mission Ustaad on Channel 9x, was produced by the United Nations and judged by A. R. Rahman and Javed Akhtar. The show was one of the biggest television series presented by the United Nations and had accomplished singers from Bollywood performing together for various causes for the United Nations.
Pandit hosted and presented the television singing show Asia's Singing Superstar (2016) with Pakistani actor Ahsan Khan telecasted in Dubai, Pakistan and several Asian countries, judged by Shankar Mahadevan and Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan on ZEE TV and GEO TV.

Personal life

In the summer of 2015, Pandit got engaged by the river Seine in Paris and a year later in July 2016, she married Ivano Fucci, an Italian film producer, in a traditional Indian wedding held in Jodhpur. Pandit delivered their daughter, Izana, on 8 February 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Florence, Italy.

Bengali

Abhimaan (2016) - "Mon Bechara"
Inspector Notty K (2018) - "Chai Na Kichui"

Dubbing

High School Musical 2 (2007)
High School Musical (2006)

Spiritual and Sanskrit devotional albums

Mahalakshmi with Padma Vibhushan Pandit Jasraj
Dashavatar with Rattan Mohan Sharma
Ganesha with Shankar Mahadevan
Sukh Samriddhi Suraksha with Shrradha Pandit
Raaz Diyan Gallan with Gurmit Singh
The Stars with Gurmit Singh

Controversy

As per the reports, music composer Anu Malik harassed Shweta when she was 15 years old. Pandit called Malik "paedophile and sexual predator" in a long note shared on the social networking service X in October 2018.