Parul Ghosh
{{Short description|Indian singer}}
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{{infobox person
| name = Parul Ghosh
| birth_date = 1915
| birth_name = Parul Biswas
| birth_place = Barisal, Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Bangladesh)
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| death_date = {{death date|1977|8|13|df=y}}
| death_place = Malad, Mumbai, India
| occupation = Playback singer
| spouse= Pannalal Ghosh
| nationality=Indian
|relatives =Anil Biswas (brother)
}}
Parul Ghosh ({{nee|Biswas}}; 1915–13 August 1977) was an Indian playback singer.{{cite book |title=Among contemporary musicians |last=Misra |first=Susheela |page=156 |year=2001 |publisher=Harman Publishing House |isbn=978-81-86622-46-9 }}
Career
Ghosh sang in Hindi and Bengali movies from 1935 to 1951.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1370766/ |title=Parul Ghosh |work=Internet Movie Database |access-date=2 October 2011 }} Hailing from Barisal (now in Bangladesh), she was introduced to playback singing by her brother Anil Biswas.{{cite book |title=Hindi film song: music beyond boundaries |last=Da Ranade |first=Ashok |page=184 |year=2006 |publisher=Bibliophile South Asia |isbn=978-81-85002-64-4 }} Films in which she featured include Jwar Bhata, Milan, Hamaari Baat and Namaste. In her early career she was associated with New Theatres, Kolkata.
Personal life and death
Ghosh was married to the flautist Pannalal Ghosh{{cite book |title=Down melody lane |last=Joshi |first=G. N. |page=23 |year=1984 |publisher=Orient Longman |isbn=978-0-86131-175-0 }} in 1924. Ghosh died on 13 August 1977 in Malad, Mumbai.{{cite journal |year=1987 |title=The Illustrated Weekly of India |volume=108 |issue=14–26 |pages=41 |issn=0019-2430 }}
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Category:Indian women playback singers
Category:University of Calcutta alumni
Category:20th-century Indian singers
Category:20th-century Indian women singers
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