Neel Dutt

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Neel Dutt
Background information
Born	(1979-03-07) 7 March 1979 (age 45) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Genres	Urban folk, pop
Occupation(s)	Composer, singer

Neel Dutt (born 7 March 1979) is an Indian composer and singer from Kolkata. He received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction from the Govt. of India in 2012 for the soundtrack of the Bengali film Ranjana Ami Ar Ashbona (Ranjana I ain't coming back no more). Dutt is the third person from West Bengal to win the Best Music Direction award. He is arguably the first music director in India to rearrange a Rabindranath Tagore composition with modern electronic music.