Mumbai, (IANS)| Shreya Ghoshal has completed 19 years in Bollywood. The singer took to Instagram to share her Hindi film journey which started with ‘Devdas’. Shreya wrote on Insta, “19 years ago on this day I made my debut in Hindi films with the iconic film Devdas.”The singer thanked the film’s director Sanjay Leela Bhansali for launching her in ‘Devdas’.
Shreya wrote, “Will be forever grateful to Sanjay Leela Bhansali sir for believing in a 16 year old girl. Thanks to my parents too, for being with me day and night. I am what I am today because of you. Am.”He tagged Devdas’ team – Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit Nene, Jackie Shroff, director Sanjay Leela Bhansali and music director Ismail Darbar – in the post.
At the age of 16, Shreya was noticed by film producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s mother in the singing reality show ‘Sa Re Ga Ma’, from where she emerged as the winner. After this, she made her playback singing debut in 2002 with the film Devdas.Shreya rose to prominence with ‘Dola Re Dola’ and ‘Barry Piya’ for ‘Devdas’ and ‘Yeh Ishq Hi’ from ‘Jab We Met’, ‘Jaadu Hai Nasha Hai’ from ‘Jism’, ‘Guru’ Sang in award winning hits like ‘Barso Re’, ‘Teri Ore’ in ‘Singh Is Kinng’, ‘Deewani Mastani’ in ‘Bajirao Mastani’, ‘Ghoomar’ in ‘Padmavat’.She recently made her digital debut as a lead singer in ‘The Family Man’ with ‘Kiske Liye Tu Marega’ and ‘Dega Jaan’.