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Anwesshaa (born Anwesha Mita Dattagupta) is an Indian singer and composer who made her presence felt in the Indian music scene at the age of 13 through the reality show Amul STAR Voice of India, Chhote Ustaad. Anwesshaa appeared on national television for the first time in the year 2007. Thereafter, she has been a part of various other shows. She started her career with the song “Ek Je Achhe Raja” in the Bengali film Khela (2008). Anwesshaa’s first breakthrough in Bollywood was in Golmaal Returns for Pritam Chakraborty at the age of 14. Among Indian regional languages, she has voiced some wonderful songs in Bangla, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali, Rajasthani, Bhojpuri. Her playbacks are for around 500 movies across all languages till date. She has received honours like Filmfare Award (East), Mirchi Music Award (Bangla and South), Tele Cine Award, Tele Samman, Big Music Award, Women Entertainers Award, Star Parivar Award, Chitrapat Padarpan Puraskar (Marathi non-film),Gujarat Government Award (For gujarati film song), Academia Award (from Los Angeles, USA for independent song), etc. She has worked in two Bangla films as a Composer songwriter and spreading her wings towards the independent music zone. One of her singles in 2020 ‘Balcony’ released during the lockdown got featured on Best of Indian music. Very recently Besabri, made by her and sung by herself and Abhay Jodhpurkar appeared in the no.2 position of Top Indian songs in extravaganza.in. Sunidhi Chauhan, Javed Ali, Abhishek Ray, Abhay Jodhpurkar and many others have rendered her compositions widening the spectrum of her experiences.