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Playback singer Shreya Ghoshal, who has been ruling the Indian Music Industry for the last several decades with her velvety and magical voice, is no longer in need of any global identity today. But do you know that this goddess of tunes had recorded such an iconic song at the tender age of just 16, which made her a star overnight. Interestingly, the song that is still sung by music lovers across the world was not actually a final studio take, but a simple rehearsal secretly recorded by the film’s director. This single song not only changed the history of Indian cinema, but also gave Shreya the first National Film Award of her career. Talent spotted on the sets of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa: Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s expert eye finds Kohinoor Shreya Ghoshal’s transformation from an ordinary reality show contestant to becoming Bollywood’s most expensive and demanding female playback singer was very interesting. Shreya started taking basic music lessons at the age of just 4 years. Her real luck shone when she was performing in TV’s famous singing reality show ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’. Veteran film director Sanjay Leela Bhansali watched Shreya’s performance on TV one evening with his mother. Hearing the innocence and classical grace in Shreya’s voice, Bhansali was so impressed that he immediately decided to give a break to this new girl in his next big historical film. Devdas’s ‘Bairi Piya’ and that magical incident: When the rehearsal itself became the history of Indian cinema Sanjay Leela Bhansali gave a golden opportunity to Shreya Ghoshal to sing the most romantic and main song ‘Bairi Piya’ of his dream project film ‘Devdas’. When 16-year-old Shreya reached the recording studio for the first time, music directors Ismail Darbar and Bhansali asked her to simply understand the tune and rehearse on the mic. Shreya sang the entire song beautifully in one take without any nervousness. Sitting in the control room, Sanjay Leela Bhansali was so mesmerized by the purity and emotion of Shreya’s voice in that rehearsal that he froze the same rehearsal track for the film’s final album without recording another final take. Shreya became the official voice of Aishwarya Rai: Sung 5 superhit songs in the same film. When Devdas was released on the big screen in 2002, the song ‘Bairi Piya’ created a stir across the country. This song went straight into the hearts of the audience and this track sung by this 16 year old young singer became a cult classic. In this film, Shreya Ghoshal became the official on-screen voice of world beauty Aishwarya Rai and she sang a total of 5 superhit songs for Aishwarya in this film alone, which included blockbuster tracks like ‘Dola Re Dola’ and ‘Silsila Yeh Chahat Ka’. By winning the National Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her very first film, Shreya proved that a new era has begun in the world of music.