Background
Thakur comes from a musical family, her father Shakti Thakur, Bengali, renowned Bengali singer and her sister Mehuli Thakur is also a playback singer.
Thakur comes from a musical family, her father Shakti Thakur, Bengali, renowned Bengali singer and her sister Mehuli Thakur is also a playback singer.
She was trained in Hindustani classical music under Pandit Jagdish Prasad and Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty. She has learnt hip-hop and Bharatanatyam and is also a trained Salsa dancer. She rose to popularity after placing ninth in Indian Idol 2.
She had to struggle a lot hard even after Indian Idol to get a strong foothold in the music industry.
Finally, she got an offer to sing for music director Pritam Chakraborty to sing two songs for the Bollywood film Race in 2008 – "Khwab Dekhe (Sexy lady)" and "Zara Zara Touch Maine". She was originally scheduled for only one song, but her first recording impressed the film"s directors Abbas – Mustan enough for them to book her a second.
"Zara Zara Touch Maine" was enormously successful, becoming the fourth-most-played song on Indian radio during the first half of 2008. She also got nominated for an IIFA Award for Best Female Playback and an Apsara Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Zara Zara Touch Maine".
She was a judge in the Bengali music reality show Bengali Sa Re Georgia Ma Pa Li"l Champs for two years.
She also appeared in the Bengali show Key Hobe Biggest Fan and was part of Coke Studio. She briefly dated Meiyang Chаng. As a child, she appeared in a Bengali television soap, Aalokito ek Indu, in which she played the lead role Indubala.
lieutenant was followed by a couple of telefilms, including Sudeshna Roy"s Phagune Agun in which she was seen as Ruman.
She made her acting debut in Raja Senator"s Bengali film Krishnakanter Will, in which she played the role of Bhromor. In 2014, she made her Bollywood debut in Nagesh Kukunoor"s Lakshmi.
She will be seen in Abbas Tyrewala"s multistarrer Mango. She also acted in a short film titled "Jangle Bells" along with Namit Das.
The film came out on Christmas 2015.