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Arundhati Holme Chowdhury | |
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| অরুন্ধতী হোম চৌধুরী | |
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| Occupation | Singer |
| Spouse | Shibaji Chatterjee (m. 1987) |
Arundhati Holme Chowdhury, also spelt as Arundhati Holme (Hom) Choudhury, is a Bengali Indian exponent of Rabindra Sangeet and Bengali songs. She has worked as a playback singer mostly in Bengali-language films. [1] [2]
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