Tanishk Bagchi

Hailing from Kolkata, West Bengal, Bagchi was born to musicians Nandakumar Bagchi and Sharmistha Das. He attended Frank Anthony Public School and Scottish Church Collegiate School, Kolkata, West Bengal.[3]

Bagchi worked as a music producer alongside Aditya Dev in the song Meherbani, composed and written by Arko Pravo Mukherjee for the film 2014 film The Shaukeens.[4] Bagchi collaborated with lyricist Vayu Srivastava for a single Oopar Oopar Renn De. Anurag Kashyap liked it and led the duo to a person named Ravi Adhikari, a close relative to the director of the 2015 film Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Aanand L. Rai. The duo then made their debut in Bollywood with the song Banno.[5] Before composing for films, he produced and arranged music for TV shows like Thapki...Pyar Ki etc.[6][7] Bagchi debuted as a solo composer in the song Samandar in Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon.[8][9]

In 2017, Bagchi's first single outing for Machine arrived. The album had Dr. Zeus as a guest composer of a dance number. Though the film was a flop in the box office, the songs like Cheez Badi crossed million views on YouTube. In the same year, he, along with Vayu, composed the soundtrack album of the film Shubh Mangal Saavdhan.

Bagchi's first remake song Humma Humma, from the 2017 film Ok Jaanu. was initially disliked, but later went on to receive over 200 million views on YouTube. That same year, he recreated more classic songs like Tamma Tamma, Mere Rashke Qamar, Cheez Badietc. He then won the Zee Cine Award for Song of the Year for his song Baarish from Half Girlfriend and the 2018 IIFA Award for Best Music Director for the film Badrinath Ki Dulhania. Tanishk-Vayu's song Kanha got many nominations and the singer Shashaa Tirupati also won one of them.

In 2018,Bagchi composed the soundtrack album of the film Loveyatri, with DJ Chetas-Lijo George and JAM8. Bagchi made his Telugu debut in the song "Adbhutam" from the film Lover. He, along with Vayu, composed the new Red FM Jingle, which includes the voice of Rajnigandha Shekhawat and the lyrics were written by Vayu. [10][11] He also recreated two songs that year - Dilbar in the film Satyamev Jayate which received 20 million views in its first 24 hours of release on YouTube, and Aankh Maarey for Simmba which became the party anthem of 2018-19 New Year's parties. Aankh Maarey crossed 1 billion views in 2021.[12] The others include Sanu Ek Pal Chain, Gali Gali, Naam Hai Mera, etc. He also collaborated with Himesh Reshammiya in the recreation of Reshammiya's hit track Aashiq Banaya Apne in Hate Story 4 with additional vocals of Neha Kakkar. He also composed the soundtrack album of Simmba along with one of its two themes. The other theme was composed by S. Thaman and one song in the album, Mera Wala Dance was composed by DJ Chetas-Lijo George.

In 2019, Bagchi was nominated as the best lyricist for his song Ve Maahi from the 2019 film Kesari at the 65th Filmfare Awards. He later released his single "Khud Se Zyada" with the independent record label VYRL originals as a singer-songwriter.[13] His single Vaaste, sung by Dhvani Bhanushali and Nikhil D'Souza became the most viewed Hindi track on YouTube in 2019. The song crossed 1 billion views in 2020. [14] He also composed Makhna song for the Netflix drama Drive. In the same year, he made his debut in Tamil through his song Kadhal Psycho in Saaho (Tamil). The song was composed by him in Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi as well. He collaborated with Kshmr for the theme song of Good Newwz. In the same album, he composed 4 out of the 7 other songs.

In 2020, Tanishk-Vayu created the Pepsi anthem Swag Se Solo and Holi song Mere Angne Mein. The duo also composed the soundtrack album Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan. Bagchi recreated 3 songs in Street Dancer 3D. He composed 3 out of 6 songs in the album of Coolie No. 1.

He has also recreated the evergreen song Tip Tip Barsa Pani for Sooryavanshi, which was postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bagchi is also credited for the rise of Dhvani Bhanushali in the music industry. One of her first songs, Humsafar, which was originally composed by Akhil Sachdeva for Badrinath Ki Dulhania, was reprised by Bagchi for T-Series Acoustics. Her hit songs like Leja Re, Koka, Vaaste etc. were compositions of Bagchi. Bagchi has collaborated with Neha Kakkar many a times since 2017, creating songs with over 100 million views on YouTube. These collaborations are mostly recreations of old iconic songs like Aankh Maarey, Dilbar, O Saki Saki, Ek Toh Kum Zindagani etc. for which the two were criticized by the audience too.

In 2021, he composed and produced the official anthem for Fearless And United- Guards, a game developed by nCore games. The anthem was released by actor-producer Akshay Kumar on 3 January 2021.[15][16]

• Red FMJingle (composed along with Vayu)

Most of Bagchi's compositions have reached the milestone of over 100 million views on YouTube. Bagchi's most viewed music video is the lyrical video of Aankh Maarey from Simmba. Aankh Maarey and Dilbar are the songs which achieved 1 billion views each. The music video of Bagchi's composition Vaaste was declared the 10th most liked music video worldwide on YouTube for 2019 and was also featured in YouTube Rewind 2019.[25] The female singer of Vaaste, Dhvani Bhanushali, became the youngest Indian pop star to have the fastest one billion views on YouTube for the same song.[26]

2016

• Mirchi Music Award for Critics' Choice Upcoming Music Composer of the Year for "Bolna" from Kapoor & Sons[27]

2017

• Zee Cine Awards Song of the Year for "Baarish" from Half Girlfriend[28]
• International Indian Film Academy Awards for Best Music Director for Badrinath Ki Dulhania along with Amaal Mallik and Akhil Sachdeva[29]

2016

• Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for Kapoor & Sons along with Amaal Mallik, Badshah, Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Benny Dayal, Nucleya

2017

• Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for Badrinath Ki Dulhania along with Amaal Mallik and Akhil Sachdeva
• Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for Half Girlfriend along with Mithoon, Farhan Saeed, Rishi Rich, Ami Mishra, Rahul Mishra
• Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for Bareilly Ki Barfi along with Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Samira Koppikar, Sameer Uddin and Vayu

Bagchi has been panned by critics over the quantity and quality of his remixes.[30][31]

In 2019, his remake version of the song O Saki Saki achieved a lot of views but was criticised by the original music director, Vishal Dadlani.[32]In 2020, his remake version of the Delhi-6 song Masakali, titled Masakali 2.0, which was initially supposed to be released as part of the soundtrack of Marjaavaan, was severely criticised by the makers of the original, including composer A. R. Rahman, lyricist Prasoon Joshi and singer Mohit Chauhan.[33] He was also trolled on entertainment websites and social media platforms.[34]

Bagchi had earlier said that he didn't want to make remakes in the beginning, but got an opportunity to make the music for "The Humma Song" for Ok Jaanu.[35]

• Tanishk Bagchi at IMDb
• Tanishk Bagchi on Facebook