Pritam
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Pritam Chakraborty | |
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প্রীতম চক্রবর্তী | |
![]() Pritam at the 5th Global Indian Music Academy Awards, 2015 | |
Born | [1][2] | 14 June 1971
Nationality | Indian |
Education | Presidency College |
Alma mater | Film and Television Institute of India |
Occupations |
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Spouse | Smita Chakraborty |
Parents |
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Musical career | |
Genres | Film songs, Pop, Sufi, Rock, classical |
Years active | 2001–present |
Labels | Tips, Sony, Eros, T-Series |
Pritam Chakraborty (Bengali: প্রীতম চক্রবর্তী; born 14 June 1971), better known by the mononym Pritam, is an Indian singer, electronic guitar player, composer, instrumentalist and record producer for Bollywood films. In a career spanning nearly one and a half decades, Pritam has composed musical numbers (songs) for more than a hundred Bollywood movies. He has won 5 Filmfare Awards, 4 Zee Cine Awards, 4 Star Screen Awards, 3 IIFA Awards and 3 ITA Awards among many others.
Pritam's composing career started in Bollywood, when he was signed for the film Tere Liye along with his friend Jeet Gannguli, The duo next composed music for the 2002 Yash Raj Films production Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai. The music of the movie was a huge success and most of its songs went on to become chartbusters. After the duo parted ways, Pritam composed music for the second film of Sanjay Gadhvi, Dhoom, which received overwhelming response.
Early life
Pritam was born in a middle class Bengali family to Anuradha Chakraborty and Prabodh Chakraborty. His father, who was an insurance officer, used to teach light music on western instruments to young kids for a nominal fee, till an accident forced him to quit his job and concentrate on the meager earnings from his music school. Pritam gained his early training in music from his father and learned to play the guitar while he was still in school.
After completing his schooling at St. James' School and Graduating in Geology in 1992 from Presidency College, Pritam dropped out of his M.Sc. classes in 1993 to chart a career of his choice from FTII, Pune where he took up Sound Recording and Engineering in 1994.[5] During this time, he was offered a chance to compose background music for a film by the Hungarian filmmaker Istvan Gaal. He also learned African music from musicologist Kedar Avati.[6]
Pritam joined a Bangla band, Chandrabindoo. Before that he formed another band with his Presidency batchmates, called "Jotugriher Pakhi" for which, he used to play the Guitar.[7] They even have a cassette released to their credit at that time.
Career
Pre-Bollywood
After completing his sound engineering course from FTII Pune, Pritam came to Mumbai in 1997. He started composing ad jingles and became friendly with other young strugglers such as Shantanu Moitra, Rajkumar Hirani, Sanjay Gadhvi and Jeet Gannguli. Pritam composed renowned jingles for brands like Santro,[8] Emami, McDonald's,[9] Head & Shoulders, Thums Up, Limca, Complan and composed title tracks for TV serials such as Astitva, Kkavyanjali, Ye Meri Life Hai, Remix, Kashmeer, Miilee, and Dil Kya Kare.[10]
Early Bollywood career (with Jeet Gannguli)
About his relationship with Jeet, Pritam said,
I was living in a humble suburb, and in the same building lived Jeet Gannguli, who was also struggling. We used to jam in our spare time and decided to come together for films, though I always did my ad films and serials solo.
Pritam got his first break when Sanjay Gadhvi was signed on to direct Tere Liye (released December 2001) and he, in turn, signed on his friends Jeet and Pritam as music composers.[11] Though the music was well received, the film sank at the box office. However, in 2002 Yashraj Films signed Gadhvi up to direct Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai, for which the Jeet-Pritam duo once again composed the music. All the songs from that movie were chartbusters, and the duo had hit the big time. Recalling that time, Pritam said
Abbas Tyrewala was the writer and lyricist (of tere liye), and we were all newcomers. But the film did not work at the box-office. However, Gadhvi was soon signed by Yash Raj Films for Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai, and my song 'Sharara' became very popular. At that point of time, we could only get a small movie, Mudda - The Issue starring Arya Babbar. Jeet had taken ill, so when Hirani came and offered us Munna Bhai MBBS, we could not accept it.
Soon after, over some misunderstanding, Jeet decided to split and the partners went their separate ways.
Solo career
Pritam had built a name for his compositions by finely blending Indian classical music with western influences. His compositions for Gadhvi’s second movie Dhoom were a runaway hit.[12][13] The title-track of Dhoom in two versions – Hindi (by Sunidhi Chauhan) and English (by Tata Young) – broke geographic barriers becoming popular in pubs in the UK, USA and the East Asia and won him a Zee Cine Award for Best Track of the Year. He received two nominations for Dhoom.
He followed this up with compositions for films like Gangster[14] and Dhoom 2. His compositions for Anurag Basu's Life in a... Metro garnered him very positive reviews.[15] He formed a band called Metro with Suhail Kaul, Soham Chakraborty, Eric Pillai and Bangladeshi singer James for the movie.[16][17]
He won his second Zee Cine Award for Best Track of the Year for the song "Mauja hi Mauja" from Jab We Met by Imtiaz Ali. Jab We Met won him his first Apsara Award for Best Music Director. He composed for two more Imtiaz Ali films, Love Aaj Kal and Cocktail which were critically and commercially successful and gave him many awards and Nnominations.
His Sufi songs for the 2010 movie Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai were immensely popular with the masses[18] and songs like "Pee loon" and "Tum Jo Aaye" were declared chartbusters.[19][20][21] He teamed up again with Mahesh Bhatt and Vishesh Films for music of Crook[22] of which the song "Mere Bina" got instant recognition with public. His Foot-Tapping numbers for Rohit Shetty's Golmaal 3 were also equally Successful.[23] In 2011, he got to work for Salman Khan's Ready and Bodyguard. He recreated the famous 1971 song, Dum Maro Dum for Ramesh Sippy's 2011 movie of the same name.[24][25] He then composed for the Romance Mausam which had a strong influence of Punjabi.[26] The songs were phenomenal hits in Northern India with "Rabba Main To Mar Gaya Oye" being a rage among people.[27]
In 2012, he composed several successful songs for films like Players, Agent Vinod, Jannat 2 and Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s Ferrari Ki Sawaari, where he finally get to work with him and Rajkumar Hirani.[28] Later that year, he scored music for Barfi! which won him two Filmfare Awards.[29] Barfi is considered to be one of the most critically acclaimed soundtrack album of his career. By 2013, his list included Race 2, Murder 3, Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani, Dhoom 3[30] and Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara which was his 100th movie as a Music Director in Bollywood.[31] He started 2014 with compositions for Yaariyan,Shaadi Ke Side Effects & Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty. He then took a break in 2014.[32][33]
He marked his return with three successful albums in 2015: Kabir Khan's Bajrangi Bhaijaan & Phantom and Rohit Shetty's Dilwale for which he was nominated for Filmfare awards.[34] The Song, "Gerua" from Dilwale directly opened at the No. 1 position on the Radio Mirchi charts[35] and became the first Bollywood song to cross 100 million views on YouTube in the shortest duration ever.[36] It also ranked in the top slot in places like Malaysia, Oman, Sri Lanka and Bahrain.[35] In 2016, he appeared as a guest composer & composed the song "Itni Si Baat Hai" for Azhar while the other composer of that album was Amaal Mallik & Dj Chetas. He also composed the whole soundtrack of Dishoom,Ae Dil Hai Mushkil & Dangal. In 2017, he composed the soundtrack of Jagga Jasoos, Raabta along with Sohrabuddin, Sourav Roy & JAM8, Tubelight and Jab Harry Met Sejal along with Diplo. In 2018, he will compose the soundtrack of Race 3 along with Meet Bros, Vishal Mishra, JAM8. In 2019, he will compose songs for Brahmastra & Kalank.
On screen appearance
Songs and movies
- Gangster (Music video for the song Bheegi Bheegi)
- Life in A... Metro (Guest appearance)
- Jab Harry Met Sejal (Promotional Music video for the song "Safar")[37]
Television
Pritam mentored and judged Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009[38] and was a judge for Chhote Ustaad on Zee TV. He was also a guest judge for the X factor and Zee Bangla's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2012-13.[39] He also composed the title track for Hrithik Roshan’s TV series Just Dance for Star TV which was sung by K.K.[40] Pritam also appeared on the popular show MTV Unplugged (Season 5) on 13 February 2016 where he sang some of his career's best songs.[41] Pritam is the mentor and judge of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2016 alongside Mika Singh and Sajid–Wajid[42]
Musical style
Pritam has composed in a variety of genres including Rock (Life in a Metro), Sufi (Once Upon Time in Mumbai) and even Ghazals (Barfi). His musical style is mainly characterized as a delicate fusion of Indian classical music with western influences.[43]
In an interview given to Stacey Yount for Bollyspice, Pritam said "I really do prefer doing rom-coms over action films."[44] Lyricist and singer Amitabh Bhattacharya said about Pritam, "It is very challenging to work with Pritam. Right from the day he cracks the song, till the day the song goes out, he is constantly working, re-working, doing changes in the song, He keeps me on my toes and that is very exciting to me. We debate a lot regarding our songs and ultimately the result is always good, His spectrum as an artist is vast. It is always good to work with composers who have range."[45] Singer Kavita Seth said "Pritam’s melody is very strong. You hear it once and it will stay with you, it is addictive."[46]
Several sources have stated that Chakraborty plagiarised songs in the early phase of his career.[47][48]
Awards and nominations
- Awards
- 2012 - Barfi! - Won Asia Pacific Screen Awards for Best Music[49]
- 2012 - Barfi! - Won Asian Film Awards for Best Music[49]
International Indian Film Academy Awards
- 2017 - Won IIFA Award for Best Music Director - Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016)
- Won
- 2013 - Won Filmfare Award for Best Music Director - Barfi! (2012)[49][29][50]
- 2013 - Won Filmfare Award for Best Background Score - Barfi! (2012)[49][50][29]
- 2017 - Won Filmfare Award for Best Music Director - Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016)[51]
- 2018 - Won Filmfare Award for Best Music Director - Jagga Jasoos (2017)
- 2018 - Won Filmfare Award for Best Background Score - Jagga Jasoos (2017)
- Nominated
- 2005 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Dhoom (2004)[52]
- 2007 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Dhoom:2 (2006)[53]
- 2008 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Life in a Metro (2007)[54]
- 2008 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Jab We Met (2007)[54]
- 2009 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Race (2008)[55]
- 2010 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Love Aaj Kal (2009)[56]
- 2010 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (2009)[56]
- 2011 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (2010)[57]
- 2013 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Cocktail (2012)[50]
- 2014 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani (2013)[58]
- 2016 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Dilwale (2015)[34]
- 2018 - Filmfare Best Music Director Award - Jab Harry Met Sejal (2017)
- Won
- 2015 - Music Composer of the Year - "Gerua" from Dilwale[59]
- 2016 - Album of the Year - Ae Dil Hai Mushkil[60]
- 2016 - Music Composer of the Year - "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" from Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
- 2017 - Album of the Year - Jab Harry Met Sejal[61]
- 2017 - Music Composer of the Year - "Hawayein" from Jab Harry Met Sejal
- Nominated
- 2011 - Album of the Year - Bodyguard[62]
- 2012 - Album of the Year - Barfi![63]
- 2012 - Album of the Year - Cocktail
- 2012 - Music Composer of the Year - "Ala Barfi" from Barfi!
- 2012 - Music Composer of the Year - "Phir Le Aya Dil" from Barfi!
- 2012 - Music Composer of the Year - "Tum Hi Ho Bandhu" from Cocktail
- 2012 - Background Score of the Year - Barfi!
- 2016 - Album of the Year - Dangal[64]
- 2016 - Music Composer of the Year - "Channa Mereya" from Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
- 2016 - Music Composer of the Year - "Bulleya" from Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
- 2016 - Best Background Score - Dangal
- 2016 - Best Background Score - Ae Dil Hai Mushkil
- 2017 - Album of the Year - Jagga Jasoos[65]
- 2017 - Album of the Year - Raabta
- 2017 - Best Background Score - Jagga Jasoos
Other
- 2003 - Won - Indian Television Academy Awards - ITA Award for Best Title Music/Song Track - Kashmeer[66]
- 2005 - Won - Indian Television Academy Awards - ITA Award for Best Title Music/Song Track - Remix[66]
- 2006 - Won - Indian Television Academy Awards - ITA Award for Best Title Music/Song Track - Kkavyanjali[66]
- 2010 - Won - Annual Central European Bollywood Awards - Love Aaj Kal[67]
- 2013 - Won - MTV VMAI Award - Best Bollywood Album - Cocktail[68]
- 2016 - Won - Dadasaheb Phalke Excellence Award - Best Music - Dilwale[69]
- 2016 - Won - Global Indian Music Awards - Best Film Song - Dilwale (Gerua)[70]
- 2016 - Won - Global Indian Music Awards - Most Popular Radio Song of the Year - Dilwale (Gerua)[70]
Discography
Filmography
Pritam won 17 awards for composing Ae Dil Hai Mushkil's soundtrack, highest no. of awards he received for composing a film's soundtrack to date. Second to it is Barfi!'s soundtrack.
Year | Film Title | Notes | Remarks |
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2001 | Tere Liye | With Jeet Gannguli, Debut Film | with Bhutani |
2002 | Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai | With Jeet Gannguli | |
2003 | Mudda – The Issue | With Jeet Gannguli | |
2004 | Dhoom | Nominated Filmfare Best Music Director Award[71] Nominated Star Screen Award for Best Music Director |
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2005 | Garam Masala | ||
2006 | Fight Club – Members Only | Nominated: Global Indian Film Awards for Best Music | |
2006 | Gangster | Nominated: Global Indian Film Awards for Best Music[72] Nominated: Zee Cine Award for Best Music Director |
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2006 | Dhoom 2 | Nominated Filmfare Best Music Director Award Nominated IIFA Best Music Director Award |
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2007 | Life in a... Metro | Nominated Filmfare Best Music Director Award Nominated Star Screen Award for Best Music Director Nominated Apsara Award for Best Music |
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2007 | Bhool Bhulaiyaa | Nominated IIFA Best Music Director Award | |
2007 | Jab We Met | Won Apsara Award for Best Music Director Won Zee Cine Award for Best Track of the Year |
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2008 | Singh Is King | Nominated Star Screen Award for Best Music Director Nominated Apsara Award for Best Music |
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2008 | Haal–e–dil | ||
2008 | Kismat Konnection | ||
2008 | Jannat | Nominated Star Screen Award for Best Music Director | |
2008 | Race | Nominated Filmfare Best Music Director Award Nominated IIFA Best Music Director Award |
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2009 | Billu | ||
2009 | Love Aaj Kal | Won IIFA Best Music Director Award Won Apsara Award for Best Music Director Nominated Filmfare Award for Best Music Director Nominated Star Screen Award for Best Music Director |
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2009 | Tum Mile | Nominated Star Screen Award for Best Music Director | |
2009 | New York | ||
2009 | Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani | Won Listeners Choice Album of the Year at Mirchi Music Awards Won Music Director of the Year in RMIM Puruskaar[73] Nominated Filmfare Award for Best Music Director Nominated Apsara Award for Best Music Nominated Star Screen Award for Best Music Director | |
2010 | Golmaal 3 | Nominated Zee Cine Award for Best Music Director | |
2010 | Action Replayy | ||
2010 | Crook: It's Good To Be Bad | Nominated Apsara Award for Best Music Director[74] | |
2010 | Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai | Won Listeners Choice Album of the Year at Mirchi Music Awards[75] Won Big Star Entertainment award for song Pee Loon Won Star Screen Award for Most Popular Music[76] Nominated Filmfare Award for Best Music Director Nominated Star Screen Award for Best Music Director Nominated Apsara Award for Best Music Director[74] Nominated IIFA Award for Best Music Director | |
2010 | Aakrosh | ||
2011 | Bodyguard | Composed 'I Love You' song Won BIG Star Most Entertaining Music Nominated Apsara Award for Best Music Director | |
2011 | Ready | Nominated Apsara Award for Best Music Director Nominated BIG Star Most Entertaining Music | |
2011 | Dum Maaro Dum | Nominated Apsara Award for Best Music Director | |
2012 | Barfi! | Won Asia Pacific Screen Awards for Best Music[49] Won IIFA Award for Best Music Director Won IIFA Award for Best Background Music Won Filmfare Award for Best Music Director[49][29] Won Filmfare Award for Best Background Score[49][29] | |
2012 | Cocktail | Won People's Choice Awards India for Favorite Movie Album of the Year Won Mtv Video Music Awards India VMAI for Best Bollywood Album Won U.K. Bollywood Cosmpolitan Award for Best Music Album Won the Best Music Director's award in 8th Apsara producers guild Award Won GIMA Hottest Song of the Year for Daaru Desi Won Screen Awards for Most Popular Music Won Zee Cine Award for Best Music Director Nominated TOIFA Award for Best Music Nominated IIFA Award for Best Music Director Nominated Screen Award for Best Music Director Nominated Filmfare Award for Best Music Director Nominated for Song of the Year for 'Tum Hi Ho Bandhu' at Mirchi Music Awards Nominated Album of the Year at Mirchi Music Awards Nominated Music Composer of the Year in Mirchi Music Awards Nominated for Best Music award in 8th Apsara Awards | |
2013 | Dhoom 3: Back in Action | ||
2013 | Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai Dobara | Pritam's 100th film as a music director | |
2013 | Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani | Won Screen Award for Best Music Director Won Star Guild Award for Best Music Won GIMA Award for Best Music Won Zee Cine Award for Best Background Score Nominated Filmfare Award for Best Music Director Nominated Zee Cine Award for Best Music Director Nominated GiMA Award for Best Background Score Nominated Mirchi Music Award for Composer of the Year Nominated Mirchi Music Award for Best Background Score | |
2014 | Yaariyan | Won Stardust Award for Best Music[78] Nominated Screen Award for Best Music Director Nominated BIG Star Most Entertaining Music Nominated Filmfare Award for Best Music Director Nominated Star Guild Award for Best Music | |
2015 | Dilwale | Won Composer of the Year award at Mirchi Music Awards Won Song of the Year in Mirchi Music Awards for Gerua Won Dada Sahab Phalke Award for Best Music Won GIMA Award for Most Popular song - Gerua[79] Nominated Filmfare Award for Best Music Director[34] Nominated GIMA Award for Best Music Director | |
2015 | Phantom | ||
2015 | Bajrangi Bhaijaan | Nominated BIG Star Entertainment Awards for Best Music Nominated Stardust Award for Best Music Nominated Guild film Awards for Best Music Nominated GIMA Award for Best Music Director Nominated IIFA Award for Best Music | |
2016 | Dangal | Won Listeners' Choice Album of The Year Award at Mirchi Music Awards Won Screen Award for Best Music Director Won Screen Award for Best Background Music | |
2016 | Ae Dil Hai Mushkil | Won Music Composer of the Year Award at Mirchi Music Awards Won Critics' Choice Album of the Year Award at Mirchi Music Awards Won Critics' Choice Song of the Year Award at Mirchi Music Awards for "Channa Mereya" Won Filmfare Award for Best Music Director Won Stardust Award for Best Music Director Won Screen Award for Best Music Director Won Zee Cine Award for Best Music Director Won Zee Cine Award for Song of the Year for "Channa Mereya" Won IIFA Award for Best Music Director Won IIFA Award for Best Background Score Won BIG Zee Most Entertaining Music Award Won BIG Zee Most Entertaining Song Award for "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" Won Platinum Disc at MT20Jubilee Awards for "Channa Mereya" Won Platinum Disc at MT20Jubilee Awards for "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" Won FOI Online Award for Best Music Direction Won News18 Movie Award 2017 for Best Music Won 2017 SpotBoyE Award for Best Music | |
2016 | White Lies | ||
2016 | Dishoom | ||
2016 | Azhar | Composed 1 song, "Itni Si Baat Hai". | |
2017 | Jab Harry Met Sejal | Won Music Composer of the Year Award at Mirchi Music Awards Won Critics' Choice Album of the Year Award at Mirchi Music Awards Won Critics' Choice Song of the Year Award at Mirchi Music Awards for "Hawayein" Won RMIM Puruskar for Music Composer of the Year Won RMIM Puruskaar for Album of the Year Got Satish Kalra Sammaan in RMIM Puruskaar Nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Music Director Nominated for Zee Cine Award for Best Music Director | |
2017 | Jagga Jasoos |
Won Filmfare Award for Best Music Director | |
2017 | Tubelight | ||
2017 | Raabta | ||
2019 | Kalank[80][81] |
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