Rajkumari Bio - Biography

Name Rajkumari
Height
Naionality Indian
Date of Birth
Place of Birth British India
Famous for Singing
Rajkumari Dubey better known by her first name, was an Indian playback singer.

Rajkumari was born in 1924. She never really had the opportunity to learn to sing, but was always supported by her family. She was just 10 years old when she recorded her first song for HMV in 1934 and she started her career as a stage artiste. Vijay Bhatt and Shankar Bhatt of Prakash Pictures spotted her during one of her shows. They liked her voice and persuaded her to discontinue acting on stage as it would spoil her voice. So she quit theatre, and became an employee of Prakash Pictures as an actress and singer.

Rajkumari's first film with them was a Hindi-Gujarati bilingual called Sansar Leela Nayi Duniya. She got important roles in films like Aankh Ka Tara and Turki Sher (1933). She was the heroine Bhakt Ke Bhagwan and Insaaf Ki Topi (1934). In those days she often acted opposite Zakaria Khan.

She also used to sing for popular music director Lallubhai. He gave music to films starring Rajkumari ji like Nai Duniya alias Sacred Scandal(1934) (Sansaar Leela in gujrati version), Laal Chitthi alias Red Letter(1935), Bombay Mail(1935), Bambai Ki Sethaani (1935)and Shamsheer-e-Arab(1935). She began getting fed up with having to watch on her figure and decided to stick to just singing as a career.

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