Poornima (sushma Shrestha)

Poornima Shrestha (born 6 September 1960), also known as Sushma Shrestha, is an Indian playback singer. Starting as a child singer, she later reinvented into a leading playback singer in Bollywood during the 90s. She started her career as a child singer in Ramesh Sippy’s Andaz (1971) under legendary music director duo Shankar Jaikishan for the hit song “Hai Na Bolo Bolo” alongside Mohammed Rafi and Suman Kalyanpur. Throughout her childhood, she then worked with music composers of the golden era including Naushad, Madan Mohan, C. Ramchandra, Salil Choudhury, Anil Biswas, S.D. Burman, Kalyanji-Anandji and Laxmikant–Pyarelal. Poornima formed a successful collaboration with R.D. Burman with such popular numbers, “Tera Mujhse Hai Pehle” from Aa Gale Lag Jaa (1973) and “Kya Hua Tera Vada” from Hum Kisise Kum Naheen (1977); both earned her nominations for the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award becoming the youngest nominee in the category at the age of 11.She made a comeback as an adult singer when music director duo Anand-Milind collaborated with her for the superhit song “Tu Tu Tu Tu Tu Tara” in Bol Radha Bol (1992). Their collaboration throughout the 1990s gave her a string of hits. Since then she has collaborated with many leading music directors including Bappi Lahiri, Rajesh Roshan, Ravindra Jain, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit, Raamlaxman, Nadeem-Shravan, Viju Shah, Anand Raj Anand, Nikhil-Vinay and Aadesh Shrivastava.