Anindya Chatterjee is an

Indian Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asia ...

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film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

music director A music(al) director or director of music is the person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance, production, or organization. This would include the artistic director and usually chief conductor of an orchestra or concert band, the d ...

singer Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

lyricist A lyricist is a songwriter who writes lyrics (the spoken words), as opposed to a composer, who writes the song's music which may include but not limited to the melody, harmony, arrangement and accompaniment. Royalties A lyricist's income ...

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

and producer based in

Kolkata Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, comme ...

, West Bengal, India. He is the singer-lyricist of prominent Bengali band

Chandrabindoo Chandrabindu (IAST: , in Sanskrit) is a diacritic sign with the form of a dot inside the lower half of a circle. It is used in the Devanagari (ँ), Bengali-Assamese (), Gujarati (ઁ), Odia (ଁ), Telugu (ఁ), Javanese ( ꦀ) and other scr ...

. In recent times he has composed multifarious songs in Bengali mainstream films as an independent music director.

Education

He is an alumnus of the

Scottish Church Collegiate School The Scottish Church Collegiate School is a school in north Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Notable alumni * Lalbehari De, Religious Leader and Writer. * Turiyananda, Religious Leader. * Dhan Gopal Mukerji, First successful Indian man of letter ...

. He earned an undergraduate degree from the

Scottish Church College Scottish Church College is a college affiliated by Calcutta University, India. It offers selective co-educational undergraduate and postgraduate studies and is the oldest continuously running Christian liberal arts and sciences college in A ...

at the

University of Calcutta The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate State university (India), state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered ...

.''Some Alumni of Scottish Church College'' in ''175th Year Commemoration Volume''. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 588 As a student at Scottish in the late 1980s, he was invited to perform at the college's annual fest ''Caledonia'', following which he performed his composition ''Sweetheart''. After the success of this song, he became initiated in the Kolkata college festival circuit. In 1989, the band

was formed, by him along with his college mates Rajesh Bose, Upal Sengupta and

Chandril Bhattacharya Chandril Bhattacharya ( bn, চন্দ্রিল ভট্টাচার্য) is a popular Bengali essayist, lyricist, poet, orator and director from Kolkata. Music Bhattacharya is one of the main lyricists of the Bengali band Chandrabin ...

.A musical journey
'telegraphindia.com''. Retrieved 4 October 2012

Films

As Director

As Actor

As Lyricist

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chatterjee, Anindya Scottish Church Collegiate School alumni Scottish Church College alumni University of Calcutta alumni Bengali male poets Bengali musicians Living people Best Lyrics National Film Award winners Year of birth missing (living people) Singers from Kolkata Film directors from Kolkata