“Tujhse Naraz Nahin Zindagi” Singer Anup Ghosal No More

Kolkata: Noted Bengali singer Anup Ghoshal, who is remembered for the hit number “Tujhse naraz nahin zindagi” from the 1983 film Masoom, passed away in Kolkata on Friday.

He is also well known for his songs in several Satyajit Ray movies. He is survived by two daughters. He was admitted to a private hospital in south Kolkata for old-age ailments. He breathed his last on Friday afternoon.

Ghoshal had also won the 2011 Assembly poll from the Uttarpara seat on the TMC ticket.

A prolific singer, Ghoshal proved his versatility in songs of Kaji Nazrul Islam and Rabindranath Tagore, and in modern Bengali songs. As a playback singer, he had been associated with Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne: (The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha, 1969) and Hirak Rajar Deshe (Kingdom of Diamonds, 1980). Director Tapan Sinha also used his voice in his film Sagina Mahato (1971).