Neha Singh Rathore is a Bhojpuri singer known for her satirical songs of her own composition, sung in a traditional manner. She often touches on issues such as unemployment, dowry, poverty and mismanagement of the country in her songs. She also tried to spread awareness through her song “Kisanwa Parali Na Jarayi” in which she asked farmers not to burn the stubble left after harvesting. She came into the limelight in 2023 after she received a legal notice for creating social disharmony through her songs.
Wiki/Biography
Neha Singh Rathore was born in 1997 (26 years old; as of 2023) in Jaldahan village, Kaimur district, Bihar. She studied for a B.Sc. at Kanpur University.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′6″
Weight (approximately): 55kg
Hair color: black
Eye color: black
family and caste
She belongs to a Rajput family from Bihar.
Parents and siblings
Her father Ramesh Singh is an architect with a private firm in Lucknow and her mother Champa Devi is a housewife. She has a married sister and a brother named Vijay Singh, who is a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel.
Neha Singh Rathore and her family
husband
She got married to writer Himanshu Singh on June 21, 2022, at Nilansh Theme Park in Lucknow.
Neha Singh Rathore’s wedding photos
Profession
Neha Singh Rathore started her career as a singer in 2020 by uploading a song titled “Dharohar” on her YouTube channel. She uploaded her first song “Karkhana Band Hoi Gaile Hamar Piya” on her YouTube channel on May 13, 2020. During the pandemic, she wrote several songs that referenced the lockdown. Some of her songs related to the coronavirus pandemic include “Corona Mahamari Ho Gaiyl” and “Corona Ke Daibe Chuni Chuni Gari”. She shot to fame after her song “Bihar Mein Ka Ba” uploaded ahead of the 2020 Bihar elections went viral on the internet. She sang the song in response to Manoj Bajpayee’s rap song “Bambai Main Ka Ba”. She later uploaded the second part of the song “Bihar Mein Ka Ba-part 2”, in which she talks about the education system and floods in Bihar. She has also composed songs like “Gujarat Mein Ka Ba”, in which she spoke about the Morbi Bridge incident, and “UP Mein Ka Ba” (Part 1 and 2), in which she questioned the UP government. In January 2021, she made her stage debut at the Republic Day Poets Conference at Maithili-Bhojpuri College, Delhi.
Neha Singh Rathore at poets conference in Maithili – Bhojpuri Academy
In November 2022, she performed at the ‘Sahitya Aajtak’ event, where he took on poet Anamika through poetry.
Neha Singh Rathore (left) at Sahitya Aajtak event
In November 2022, she made her acting debut in the Netflix film Khaki: The Bihar Chapter. She appears briefly in the film.
Poster of the movie “Kaki: Chapter of Bihar”
In February 2023, she performed at the Democracy Festival in Delhi, singing a folk song describing an incident in which a female worker in UP gave birth on the road.
Neha Singh Rathore at Democracy Festival in Delhi
dispute
Cover of her song “My Admission to Lake University”
After Neha Singh Rathore’s song “My Admission in Lake University” came out in November 2020, it was heavily criticized on social media. In the song, Neha made accusations against Allahabad Central University (IVV) and called it the “Oxford of the East”. She also questioned the university’s student government in the song. Subsequently, students of the school became angry and demanded legal action against her. The students have submitted a memorandum to the chief invigilator seeking registration of an FIR against Neha Singh Rathore.
receive legal notice
In 2023, Neha Singh Rathore received a legal notice from the UP government for her song “UP Mein Ka Ba Season 2” which was released on February 16, 2023. In the song, she talks about the Dixit family, whose house was burned alive by bulldozers during a government-ordered demolition drive that burned a 45-year-old woman and her 20-year-old daughter to death. She also questioned the Uttar Pradesh government in the song. Kanpur police claimed that Neha Singh Rathore was trying to create disharmony and tension in society through her songs. They sent her a notice with seven questions that she had to answer within three days.
Sparked controversy over her social media posts about the urination incident
Suraj Khare filed a First Information Report (FIR) against her on July 7, 2023, at Habibganj police station in Bhopal. The charges were filed under Section 153(A) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which deals with inciting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, etc. The complaint was filed over a social media post she made about an incident in Central State in which a man named Pravesh Shukla complained to a man named Dashmesh Rawat. tribe members urinate.
Facts/Trivia
- She has a YouTube channel named ‘Neha Singh Rathore’ where she uploads folk, bhakti and satirical songs. In her satirical songs, she questions the Indian government and highlights key issues such as women’s safety, dowry, poverty and unemployment in the country.
- She has a huge fan following on social media. As of 2023, she has 67.3k followers on Instagram, 87.8k followers on YouTube, 150.6k followers on Twitter, and 3.1 million followers on Facebook.
- According to Neha Singh Rathore, through traditional singing, she is trying to restore the honor of Bhojpuri songs that was ruined by vulgar film songs. Her social media profile says,
Fight to restore the honor of Bhojpuri which was deprived of it by vulgar film songs. “
- Neha said in an interview that she got the inspiration to sing folk songs from her mother. She said she wanted to use her songs to lend her voice to key issues such as unemployment, women’s empowerment and poverty in order to make society aware of them. She said she belongs to an area where people are quite conservative and she believes one day her songs will bring about change. she says,
I come from a village where girls are not even allowed to post show pictures on their social media accounts. Girls are limited, but I believe my songs will liberate them one day because they work for me. ”
- In response to her song “UP Mein Ka Ba”, Bhojpuri actor Ravi Kishan released a song “UP Mein Sab Ba” in January 2022.
- In June 2022, she purchased her first car, a Tata Nexon.
Neha Singh Rathore and her Tata Nexon car
- In December 2022, Neha Singh Rathore was awarded the ‘Ayodhya Mati Ratan’ award.
Neha Singh Rathore receives Ayodhya Mati Ratan
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Source: HIS Education