We all know that playback singer and Carnatic musician Chithra has recorded over 25,000 songs in various Indian languages including Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Odia, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Tulu, Rajasthani, Urdu, Sanskrit, Badaga and Marathi as well as foreign languages such as Malay, Latin, Arabic, Sinhalese, English and French. She is the sweetest person by heart and her songs are often loved and enjoyed by millions of fans around the world.

Though we know her as a loving person the other happy and fun-filled side of Chitra was revealed recently in a throwback photo. In the photo, she was seen enjoying her time by Go carting. She was seen wearing a green churidar and donned a billion-dollar smile.

This throwback photo of her is currently going viral on social media platforms. Chithra is a recipient of six National Film Awards, eight Filmfare Awards South and 36 different state film awards from six different states of India such as 16 Kerala State Film Awards, 11 Andhra Pradesh State Film Awards, 4 Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, 3 Karnataka State Film Awards, 1 Orissa State Film Awards, 1 West Bengal State Film Awards

She was awarded India's third-highest civilian honours Padma Bhushan in 2021 and Padma Shri in 2005 for her valuable contributions to the Indian musical fraternity. She was honoured with the Rashtrapati Award for being the First Lady in the field of music felicitated by the Ministry of Women and Child Development of the Government of India at the Rashtrapati Bhavan on 20 January 2018.