Jolly Mukherjee

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{{short description|Indian singer (born 1956)}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jolly Mukherjee
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|10 February 1956}}
| birth_place = [[Gangtok, Sikkim|Gangtok]], [[Sikkim]], India
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'''Jolly Mukherjee''' is an Indian singer. Known as India's "King of Strings",{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}} Mukherjee specializes specifically in the music of [[Bollywood]], or the Indian film industry. He started his career as a backup singer for commercials, then moving on to writing music for airline on-flight introductions, where he sometimes wrote for [[British Airways]]. His Longtime friend and a great singer [[Hariharan (singer)|Hariharan]] has been a great influence. His roots include a mixture of [[Hindustani classical music]] and Western music. It was Hariharan who actually gave him his first arrangement, HAZIR, which was an album with Ustad Zakir Hssain. Jolly Has been associated with Hariharans Ghazal arrangement, for the albums like Gulfam, Paigham, Jashn, Dil Ki Baat, Kaash, Waqt par Bolna, and Hazir 2. Also Reflection and Horizon to mention as associate. He is known for working with the Madras Cinematic Orchestra, for his International Album, Fusebox, included remixes from [[State of Bengal]] and [[Badmarsh & Shri]], from which the remixed version of "Bhatiyali" achieved success. He has a series of hit songs from the Hindi movies Dayavan, Sahibaan, Chandni, Saathi, Aaina, Sangeet, Aatish, Raghuveer, Aadmi, Aar Ya Paar, Judge Mujrim, Indrajeet, Bhishma, Raaz, Jungs, and Dhoom 2, to name a few. He is famous in [[Bangladesh]] for providing playback for veteran actor [[Dipjol]]. One of his famous song in Dhallywood is ''Ki batti lagaili (ore o mainka)''. He provided the string arrangements for the [[Icelanders|Icelandic]] performer [[Björk]]'s song "Verandi".<ref name="Gittins2002">{{cite book|last=Gittins|first=Ian|title=Björk: there's more to life than this : the stories behind every song|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lfvsg12ApDgC&pg=PA139|access-date=3 July 2010|date=10 December 2002|publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press|isbn=978-1-56025-416-4|page=139}}</ref>

He was revered for Sahibaan Meri Sahibaan<ref>{{Citation|last=Bollywood Classics|title=Sahibaan Meri Sahibaan Full HD Song {{!}} Sahibaan {{!}} Rishi Kapoor, Madhuri Dixit|date=15 October 2012|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGGphY03i3Y}}</ref> from movie Sahibaan, was a super-hit Romantic Melody. Anuradha Paudwal was his co-singer in this performance.

He is participating in ''[[Jjhoom India]]'', a reality show on [[Sahara One]], teamed up with Shama Sikander.

Recent projects include Detective Naani (film directed and co-produced by Romilla Mukherjee). He was the music director and producer for the same.

==Discography==
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| '''Year'''
| '''Film/Album'''
| '''Song(s)'''
| '''Composer(s)'''
| '''Co-singer(s)'''
| '''Notes'''
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| rowspan="2"|1988
| rowspan="2"|''[[Dayavan]]''
| "Diwani Tum Jawanon Ki"
| rowspan="2"|[[Laxmikant Pyarelal]]
| [[Sapna Mukherjee]], [[Mohammad Aziz]]
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| Chahe Meri Jaan Tu Le Le
| Sapna Mukherjee
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| rowspan="1"|1989
| ''[[Chandni (film)|Chandni]]''
| "Chandni O Meri Chandni"
| [[Shiv-Hari]]
| [[Sridevi]]
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| rowspan="1"|1991
| ''[[Saathi (1991 film)|Saathi]]''
| "Aaj Hum Tum O Sanam"
| [[Nadeem–Shravan]]
| [[Anuradha Paudwal]]
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|-
| rowspan="3"|1992
| ''[[Sangeet (film)|Sangeet]]''
| "Sun O Hasina"
| [[Anand Milind]]
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| rowspan="2"|''[[Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman]]''
| ""Kya Hua" (Laveria Hua)"
| rowspan="2"|[[Jatin-Lalit]]
| [[Kumar Sanu]], [[Alka Yagnik]]
|
|-
| Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman
| [[Kumar Sanu]], [[Sudesh Bhonsle]], [[Sadhana Sargam]]
|
|-
| rowspan="4"|1993
| rowspan="2"|''[[Sahibaan]]''
| "Sahibaan Meri Sahibaan"
| rowspan="2"|[[Shiv-Hari]]
| [[Anuradha Paudwal]]
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|-
| Is Mele Mein Log Aate Hain
| [[Anuradha Paudwal]]
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| ''[[Aaina (1993 film)|Aaina]]''
| "Goriya Re Goriya"
| [[Dilip Sen]]-[[Sameer Sen]]
| [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
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|-
| ''[[Saajan]]''
| "Aei to Prothom Dekhlam"
| [[Nadeem-Shravan]]
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| Bengali
|-
| rowspan="2"|1994
| rowspan="2"|''[[Aatish: Feel the Fire]]''
| "Dil Dil Dil Main Tere Pyar Mein"
| rowspan="2"|[[Nadeem-Shravan]]
| [[Alka Yagnik]]
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|-
| Ya Mustafa" but change to Ya dilruba
| [[Mukul Aggarwal]], [[Alka Yagnik]]
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| rowspan="3"|1995
| ''[[Sabse Bada Khiladi]]''
| "Mukaala Mukaabla"
| [[Rajesh Roshan]]
| [[Kumar Sanu]], [[Alka Yagnik]]
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| ''[[रघुवीर (1995 फ़िल्म)|Raghuveer]]''
| "O Jaaneman Chehra"
| [[Dilip Sen]]-[[Sameer Sen]]
| [[Alka Yagnik]]
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|-
| ''[[Bewafa Sanam]]''
| "Nargisi Nargisi Aankhein Teri Nargisi"
| [[Raju Singh]]-[[Sameer Sen]]
| [[Lata Mangeshkar]]
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|-
| rowspan="1"|1996
| ''[[Ek Tha Raja]]''
| "Topi Topi"
| [[Anand-Milind]]
| [[Abhijeet Bhattacharya]], Poornima
|-
| rowspan="1"|1997
| [[Judge Mujrim]]
| "Laila o Laila"
| [[Anand Milind]]
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| rowspan="1"|2000
| ''[[Josh (2000 film)|Josh]]''
| "Zinda Hain Hum To"
| [[Anu Malik]]
| [[Abhijeet Bhattacharya]], [[Hema Sardesai]]
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| rowspan="1"|2002
| ''[[Raaz (2002 film)|Raaz]]''
| "Yahan Pe Sab Shanti Shanti Hai"
| [[Nadeem-Shravan]]
| [[Bali Brahmbhatt]], [[Suzanne D'Mello]]
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|-
| rowspan="1"|2013
| ''[[Satya 2]]''
| "Taaqat"
| [[Sanjeev–Darshan]]
| [[Hricha Narayan]], Arghya, [[Sanjeev Rathod]]
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