Monday, February 11, 2002		Music Beat

From Meri Aawaz Suno to her own album, Sunidhi's come a long way

Sunidhi's first appearance in the TV show Meri Aawaz Suno was her first far-reaching public performance. She won the mega finals, which catapulted her to the limelight. As winner's prize she was promised an album with HMV. Aira Gaira Nathu Khaira was the name of the album that was promoted as a kids' album. Her debut as a playback singer was for the film Shastra for which she sang the racy number Ladki deewani dekho. Sandeep Chowta gave her a chance for Ram Gopal Verma's film Mast. The three songs that she recorded for the film brought her true talent to the fore. After this she recorded songs for many movies like Jungle, Bichhoo, Hum To Mohabbat Karega, Jis Desh mein Ganga Rehta Hai, Fiza, Mission Kashmir, Yaadein and Ajnabee. Recently she launched an album Sunidhi.C. a title seemingly inspired by the dot.com generation. Mahiya is the song of this album, which is famous on all music channels.

Her latest hit Mahiya along with other songs is available for free download on this page. One need not login to the site and anyone can download MP3 songs available. On the index page we can see a long list of singer. As the name of the site suggests, this site has more collection of Punjabi songs. There is a separate list of Pakistani singers on the site. The best part of the site is the song quality and many songs are available in the MP3 format available for free download.

This site provides a wide range of songs. From the Index page > Music > Artists, the surfer can find link to Sunidhi's page where a long list of her songs are linked. Her popularity and talent can be judged from the artists' page where her name is written along with Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhonsle, Kishore Kumar, Abhijeet, Anuradha Paudwal, Sonu Nigam and Hariharan. This site does not allow downloads, but there is a list of songs available for listening online. Some of the available songs are Kem che, Bhumbroo, Pehli baar, Do pyar karnewale, Ruki ruki and Mast

All songs of the film Jungle are available. Songs are available in the Real Media format but cannot be downloaded. We can find many more songs sung by Sunidhi by opening the list of movies she has sung for. 'Movie soundtracks' is the link to reach the list of movies. www.glamsham.com/music/movietracks is another site where we can find her songs, site is archived according to movie names.

— TNS