Monali Thakur (Singer) Biography Height, Weight, Age, Affairs,

Early Life & Career

Monali Thakur was born on November 3, 1985, in Kolkata, India into a Bengali family to famous Bengali singer Shakti Thakur. She has an younger sister who is also a playback singer name, Mehuli Thakur. Monali has completed her graduation from St. Xavier’s College in English from at Kolkata. Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty and Pandit Jagdish Prasad trained Monali in Hindustani Classical Music. Thakur learned hip-hop and as well as Bharatanatyam and is also a trained salsa dancer.

She started her career by participating in “Indian Idol” season 2 which was set on Sony Entertainment Television. She ended up in the ninth position but gained huge popularity. Afterward, In 2006, Monali made her debut with the song ‘Kubool Kar Le’ for the film “Jaan –E-Mann”. Following that she sang many hit songs that include ‘Goodnight’ for Dil Kabaddi, ‘Zara Zara Touch Me’, ‘Bol Na Aar’ and ‘Jingle Jingle’.

In 2007 Monali Thakur made her acting debut with Bengali movie ‘Krishnakanter Will’ where she played as a child artist. She was acted as a lead character in the Hindi social problem film ‘Lakshmi’ opposite to Ram Kapoor in 2014. In that same year, the actress also appeared in other two movies ‘Mango’ and ‘PK’

Monali Thakur was a successful judge of the Bengali music reality show ‘Bengali Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li’l Champs’ where she judged for two seasons. Monali also appeared in the show ‘Key Hobe Biggest Fan’ and was an important part of ‘Coke Studio’. She is currently judging the reality show on Colors TV’s “India’s Rising Star”.