Biography
Preeti Sagar is a former Bollywood playback singer. She shot to instant fame with her English song "My Heart is Beating, keeps on repeating" in the 1975 Bollywood hit film "Julie", which was scored by Rajesh Roshan. She won a special Filmfare award for the same. She also won the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award for the folk song "Mhare gaon.." in "Manthan".
In spite of all the accolades and the awards somehow she didn't really manage to sustain her position in Bollywood. Comparison with Geeta Dutt and Asha Bhosle somehow stunted her growth as a singer and she couldn't carve a niche for herself in the industry.
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She decided instead to focus on the children's entertainment and education industry. She worked with SaReGaMa to create several children's nursery rhyme collections in Hindi and English. She also created a Fairy Tales series.
She now runs her own production company called Angela Films which does advertising, short films and feature-film dubbing. In the 1990's, Angela Films produced the hit children's TV show, Phulwari Bachcho Ki.
She lives in Mumbai with her husband and two daughters.
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