Pritam

Pritam Chakraborty
Born (1971-06-14) 14 June 1971 (age 53)[1][2]
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
EducationPresidency College
Alma materFilm and Television Institute of India, Pune
Occupations
  • Singer
  • composer
  • record producer
  • instrumentalist
SpouseSmita Chakraborty
Children2[3]
AwardsNational Award for Best Music Direction - 2022
Musical career
GenresFilm songs
Years active2001–present
LabelsTips, T-Series, YRF Music, Eros, Zee Music Company, Sony Music India, Saregama

Pritam Chakraborty (born 14 June 1971), also popularly known mononymously as Pritam, is a National Award Winning Indian composer, instrumentalist, guitarist, music producer and singer from Kolkata, India. Graduating from FTII in Sound Engineering, he worked as an ad jingles composer, later he debuted as a co-composer in the 2001 Hindi film Tere Liye.

He debuted as a solo composer with the movie Dhoom. Composition of the title track of Dhoom became the first viral music of Indian film history, helped him win the Zee Cine Award for Best Track of the Year & vast acknowledgements.

In a career spanning over two decades, he has composed music for more than 125 Bollywood Movies, and he has been the recipient of numerous awards, including one National Film Award, six Filmfare Awards for Best Music Director and four Mirchi Music Award for Music Composer of The Year and many more.[4]

  1. ^ "Pritam Chakraborty Turns 45 Today! Here's A Few Songs! – SirG.co". 14 June 2016. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Pritam Chakraborty Biography". cinemagigs. Archived from the original on 1 January 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
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  4. ^ Bureau, The Hindu (16 August 2024). "70th National Film Awards: Rishab Shetty wins Best Actor for 'Kantara,' 'Aattam' bags Best Feature Film". The Hindu. Retrieved 17 August 2024. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)