Chirkutt is a Bangladeshi

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band from

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, formed in 2002. It consists of vocalist

Sharmin Sultana Sumi Sharmin Sultana Sumi (better known as Sumi) is a Bangladeshi singer, songwriter, composer, playback singer. She is a lead vocalist and founding member of the band Chirkutt. She started the band in 2002. Sumi becomes first-ever Bangladeshi to par ...

, guitarist

Emon Chowdhury Mustafizur Rahman Chowdhury Emon (known as Emon Chowdhury) is a Bangladeshi musician best known as working outside of the rock band Chirkutt. He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Music Director Bangladesh National Film Award for Bes ...

, keyboards player

Jahid Nirob Jahid Nirob (জাহিদ নিরব) born 21 October 1994 is a Bangladeshi singer and music composer best known as the member of the rock band Chirkutt. Nirob began his career when he participated in the contemporary reality show, Nescafe ...

and drummer Pavel Areen.

History

This band was formed in 2002 by

joined in 2005, Pavel Areen joined in 2008 and

joined in 2015. Eight years after the band was formed they released their first album ''Chirkuttnama''. Chirkutt's performed at

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-2016 in

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and South Asian Band Festival-Delhi,

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, the President house concert in India-2014, India Music Week and the Jaffna Music Festival,

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. They were also the winners of the RTV Best Band Award 2012. Chirkutt band has also embarked for a tour in Norway with Norwegian rockers Casa Murilo in 2013. They performed on

Asian TV Asian TV ( bn, এশিয়ান টিভি) is a Bangladeshi Bengali language satellite and cable television channel owned by the Asian Group of Industries. It began broadcasts on 18 January 2013, with the "Your Channel" slogan. It broadca ...

music show in September 2016.

Members

Present members *

–

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–

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–

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* Pavel Areen –

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Discography

* ''"চিরকুটনামা (Chronograph)"'' (2010) * ''"যাদুর শহর (City of Magic)"'' (2013) * ''"উধাও (Disappear)"'' (2017)

Award

Channel i Music Awards , - , 2013 , , ''"যাদুর শহর (City of Magic)"'' , , Best Band Album of the Year , , RTV Music Awards , - , 2012 , , Chirkutt , , Best Band of the Year , , SAARC Film Festival Award , - , 2016 , , ''

Jalal's Story ''Jalal's Story'' ( bn, জালালের গল্প) is a 2014 Bangladeshi film directed by Abu Shahed Emon and produced by Faridur Reza Sagar. Character actors Arafat Rahman and Mohammad Emon play the lead roles. The film was selected as t ...

'' , , Best Original Score , ,

Chirkutt in film

The band has also worked on several local film music director. They won the "

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" film festival award in 2016 for the best original score of the film ''

''. Chirkutt also have done the playback in the movies ''Television'', and ''Piprabidya'', of director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. They did the soundtrack of ''

Aynabaji ''Aynabaji'' ( bn, আয়নাবাজি ) is a 2016 Bangladeshi crime thriller film directed by Amitabh Reza Chowdhury and produced by Gousul Alam under the banner of Content Matters Production. The film stars Chanchal Chowdhury, Masuma R ...

'' of

Amitabh Reza Chowdhury Amitabh Reza Chowdhury ( bn, অমিতাভ রেজা চৌধুরী) is a Bangladeshi filmmaker. In his career, he has directed nearly fifteen hundred (1500) television commercials (henceforth TVCs). Amitabh has also directed a few tel ...

2016 film, Ice cream of Redowan Rony. Chirkutt did the soundtrack of the movie ''Tumi Je Amar'' by RTV. They composed the soundtrack of the 2017 movie ''Doob – No bed of roses''.

References

External links

Official Website

Official Facebook

BBC Music
{{Authority control Musical groups established in 2002 2002 establishments in Bangladesh Bangladeshi pop music groups