Pritam

Pritam Chakraborty (born 14 June 1971), also known mononymously as Pritam, is an Indian composer, instrumentalist, electronic guitar player and singer.[6]

Pritam
Born
Pritam Chakraborty

(1971-06-14) 14 June 1971[1][2]
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
EducationPresidency College
Alma materFilm and Television Institute of India, Pune
Occupation
  • Singer
  • Composer
  • Record Producer
  • Instrumentalist
Spouse(s)Smita Chakraborty
Children2[3]
Parent(s)
  • Prabodh Chakraborty
  • Anuradha Chakraborty
Musical career
GenresFilm songs, Pop, Sufi, Rock, classical, Sufi Rock
InstrumentsTabla, guitar, keyboard[4] Vocals[5]
Years active2001–present
LabelsTips, Sony, Eros, T-Series
Associated actsChandrabindoo, Metro, Marshmello

Early life

Pritam was born in a Bengali family to Anuradha Chakraborty and Prabodh Chakraborty. He gained his early training in music from his father and learned to play the guitar while he was still in school.

He went to St. James' School and has a bachelor's degree in Geology from Presidency College. Pritam joined FTII, Pune where he took up Sound Recording and Engineering in 1994.[7] During this time, he was offered a chance to compose background music for a film by the Hungarian filmmaker Istvan Gaal.

Pritam formed a band with his Presidency batchmates, called "Jotugriher Pakhi" for which, he used to play the guitar.[8] They even have a cassette released to their credit at that time. Pritam joined a Bangla band, Chandrabindoo. Later Pritam started band Metro with James, Suhail, Soham and Eric during his film called Life in a... Metro.[9]

Career

Pre-Bollywood

After completing his sound engineering course from FTII Pune, Pritam came to Mumbai in 1997. He started composing ad jingles where he met other budding artists such as Shantanu Moitra, Rajkumar Hirani, Sanjay Gadhvi and Jeet Gannguli. Pritam composed renowned jingles for brands like Santro,[10] Emami, McDonald's,[11] 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.[12]

Early Bollywood career (with Jeet Gannguli)

Pritam got his first break for Tere Liye (released December 2001)[13] Though the music was well-received, the film missed the mark. In 2002, The Jeet-Pritam duo once again composed music for Yash Raj Films' Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai. All the songs from that movie were chartbusters. 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.[14][15] 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 Jannat, Gangster[16] and Dhoom 2. His compositions for Anurag Basu's Life in a... Metro garnered him very positive reviews.[17] He formed a band called Metro with Suhail Kaul, Soham Chakraborty, Eric Pillai and Bangladeshi singer James for the movie.[18][19]

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.

His Sufi songs for the 2010 movie Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai were immensely popular with the masses[20] and songs like "Pee loon" and "Tum Jo Aaye" were declared chartbusters.[21][22] He teamed up again with Mahesh Bhatt and Vishesh Films for music of Crook[23] 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.[24] 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.[25][26] He then composed for the romance Mausam which had a strong influence of Punjabi.[27] The songs were phenomenal hits in Northern India with "Rabba Main To Mar Gaya Oye" being a rage among people.[28]

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 got to work with him and Rajkumar Hirani.[29] Later that year, he scored music for Barfi! which won him two Filmfare Awards.[30] 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[31] and Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara which was his 100th movie as a Music Director in Bollywood.[32] 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.[33][34]

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.[35] The Song, "Gerua" from Dilwale directly opened at the No. 1 position on the Radio Mirchi charts[36] and became the first Bollywood song to cross 100 million views on YouTube in the shortest duration ever.[37] It also ranked in the top slot in places like Malaysia, Oman, Sri Lanka and Bahrain.[36] In 2016, he appeared as a guest composer and composed the song "Itni Si Baat Hai" for Azhar; the albumes other composers were Amaal Mallik and Dj Chetas. He also composed the whole soundtracks of Dishoom, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil and Dangal. In 2017, he composed the soundtracks of Jagga Jasoos, Raabta along with Sohrabuddin, Sourav Roy and JAM8, Tubelight and Jab Harry Met Sejal along with Diplo. In 2019, he composed songs for Kalank and will produce the music for Brahmastra. 83- The Film is lined up for 2020.

Musical style

Pritam has composed and covered some popular songs without giving credits to the original artists in a variety of genres including Rock (Life in a... Metro), Sufi (Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai) and even Ghazals (Barfi). His musical style is mainly characterized as a delicate fusion of Indian classical music with contemporary undertones.[38]

Allegations of plagiarism

Pritam has been alleged to have plagiarized numerous songs from the beginning of his film music career. Hits such as "Pehli Nazar Main" was plagiarized from the Korean song "Sarang Hae Yo" by Kim Hyung Su (2005).[39] His critically acclaimed soundtrack Ae Dil Hai Mushkil also faced allegations of plagiarism as the guitar riff of the song "Bulleya" was lifted from the Papa Roach song "Last Resort".[40][41]

Rolling Stone India says, Indian music plagiarism tracking site www.itwofs.com alleges 52 instances between 2004 and 2010 where Pritam's songs are said to be "lifted", "copied", "plagiarized", or "similar" to those of tunes by other composers, who range from Arab and East Asian artists (such as Ihab Tawfik, Yuri Mrakadi and Kim Hyung-sub) to Western musicians like Boney M. and Damien Rice.[42][43]

"I made mistakes initially.. ", Pritam said in an interview with Hindustan Times on his plagiarism charges.[44]

JAM8

JAM8 is a music incubation platform founded by music composer Pritam in 2016 for budding musicians. Being associated with Prime Focus Ltd, a media service powerhouse and KWAN, a talent management company, JAM8 uses high-quality technology and infrastructure to offer solutions to music across all segments covering movies, advertisements and the OTT space, providing the best in quality music output. JAM8 has over a brief period given music for brands like Duracell, Maruti Suzuki, Close Up, Nerolac amongst other prominent brands. Some of their film work consists of songs like Zaalima, Saason Ke, Dhingaana from Raees, Main Hoon Sath Tere from Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana and Sajan Bade Senti from Badhaai Ho, the whole album of Bhangra Paa Le movie.

On screen appearance

Music videos and films

Television

Pritam mentored and judged Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009[47] 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.[48] He also composed the title track for Hrithik Roshan’s TV series Just Dance for Star TV which was sung by KK.[49] Pritam sang some of his top hits on the popular show MTV Unplugged (Season 5) on 13 February 2016.[50] Pritam is the mentor and judge of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2016 alongside Mika Singh and Sajid–Wajid[51] He was also a part of Star plus’ show Dil Hai Hindustani as a judge alongside Sunidhi Chauhan and Badshah in 2018.

Awards and nominations
Awards

Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Asian Film Awards

International Indian Film Academy Awards

  • 2017 – Won IIFA Award for Best Music Director – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (2016)

Filmfare Awards

Won
Nominated

Mirchi Music Awards

Won
Nominated
  • 2010 – Album of the Year – Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai[65]
  • 2010 – Music Composer of The Year – "Pee Loon" from Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai
  • 2011 – Album of the Year – Bodyguard[66]
  • 2012 – Album of the Year – Barfi![67]
  • 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[68]
  • 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[69]
  • 2017 – Album of the Year – Raabta
  • 2017 – Best Background Score – Jagga Jasoos

Other

Discography
Main article: Pritam Chakraborty discography

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