Abhijeet Bhattacharya, or Abhijeet Dhirendranath better known as Abhijeet, is a Bollywood playback singer born to a successful businessman turned editor, Dhirendranath Bhattacharya and his wife Kamladevi Bhattacharya in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. He married a fashion designer Sumati Bhattacharya in 1990 and has two sons Dhruv Abhijeet Bhattacharya and Jai Abhijeet Bhattacharya. Abhijeet began his Bollywood career formally in 1990 with the film Baaghi. He has sung songs in more than 18 languages including Bengali, Odia, Bhojpuri, Marathi and Gujarati. He won Filmfare Award in 1997. He has also released many Indian pop albums. He has also judged popular Indian reality shows like Indian Idol and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa and Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs several times.