Pritam Chakraborty (born 14 June 1971), also known

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as Pritam, is an Indian composer, instrumentalist, guitarist, and singer. After working as an ad jingles composer, he debuted as a co-composer in the 2001 Hindi film Tere Liye. As a solo composer, his composition of the title track of

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helped him win the

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. In a career spanning nearly two decades, he has composed music for more than 125 Bollywood movies and has been the recipient of numerous awards.

Early life

Pritam was born in a

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family to Anuradha Chakraborty and Prabodh Chakraborty. He gained his early training in music from his father and learnt to play the guitar while he was still in school. He went to St. James' School and has a bachelor's degree in geology from Presidency College. Pritam was associated with the non-partisan political platform

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during his days at Presidency. In 1994, Pritam joined FTII,

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where he took up Sound Recording and Engineering. Pritam formed a band with his presidency batchmates, called "Jotugriher Pakhi" for which, he used to play the guitar. They even have a cassette released to their credit at that time. Pritam joined a Bangla band,

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. Later Pritam started band Metro with James, Suhail, Soham and Eric during his film called Life in a... Metro.

Career

Pre-Bollywood

After completing his sound engineering course from FTII Pune, Chakraborty came to

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in 1997. He started composing ad jingles where he met other budding artists such as

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and

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. Pritam composed renowned jingles for brands like Santro,

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and composed title tracks for TV serials such as ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Kashmeer'', ''

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'', and ''Dil Kare''.

Early Bollywood career (with Jeet Gannguli)

Pritam got his first break for Tere Liye (released December 2001). Though the music was well-received, the film missed the mark. In 2002, The Jeet-Pritam duo once again composed music for

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''. All the songs from that movie were chartbusters. Soon after, over some misunderstanding, Jeet decided to split and the partners and go their separate ways.

Solo career

Pritam's compositions were noted for their ability to blend Indian classical music with western styles. His compositions for Gadhvi's second movie ''

'' were a runaway hit. The title-track of ''Dhoom'' in two versions – Hindi (by

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) and English (by

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) – broke geographic barriers becoming popular in pubs in the UK, USA and the East Asia and won him a

. He received two nominations for ''Dhoom''. He followed this up with compositions for films like ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. His compositions for

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's '' Life in a... Metro'' garnered him very positive reviews. He formed a band called

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with Suhail Kaul, Sohu pet name Chakraborty, Eric Pillai and Bangladeshi singer

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for the movie. He won his second

for the song "Mauja Hi Mauja" from ''

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'' by Imtiaz Ali. ''

'' won him his first

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. He composed for two more Imtiaz Ali films, '' Love Aaj Kal'' and ''Cocktail'' which were critically and commercially successful. His

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songs for the 2010 movie ''

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'' were immensely popular with the masses and songs like "Pee loon" and "Tum Jo Aaye" were declared chartbusters. He teamed up again with

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and

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for music of ''

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'' of which the song "Mere Bina" got instant recognition with public. His foot-tapping numbers for

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's ''

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'' were also equally successful. In 2011, he got to work for

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's ''Ready'' and ''Bodyguard''. He recreated the famous 1971 song, " Dum Maro Dum" for

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's 2011 movie of the same name. He then composed for the romance ''Mausam'' which had a strong influence of Punjabi. The songs were phenomenal hits in Northern India with "Rabba Main To Mar Gaya Oye" being a rage among people. In 2012, he composed several successful songs for films like ''Players'', ''Agent Vinod'', ''

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'' and

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’s ''

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'', where he worked with

. Later that year, he scored music for ''

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'' which won him two

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. ''Barfi'' is considered to be one of the most critically acclaimed soundtrack album of his career. By 2013, his list included ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Once Upon ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara'' which was his 100th movie as a Music Director in Bollywood. He started 2014 with compositions for '' Yaariyan'', ''

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'' & '' Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty''. He then took a break in 2014. He marked his return with three successful albums in 2015: Kabir Khan's ''

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'' & ''

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'' and

's '' Dilwale'' for which he was nominated for Filmfare awards. The Song, "

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" from '' Dilwale'' directly opened at the No. 1 position on the

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charts and became the first Bollywood song to cross 100 million views on YouTube in the shortest duration ever. It also ranked in the top slot in places like

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and

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. In 2016, he appeared as a guest composer and composed the song "Itni Si Baat Hai" for '' Azhar''; the albumes other composers were

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and Dj Chetas. He also composed the whole soundtracks of ''

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'', ''

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'' and '' Dangal''. In 2017, he composed the soundtracks of ''

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'', '' Raabta'' along with Sohrabuddin, Sourav Roy and

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, '' Tubelight'' and ''

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'' along with

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. In 2019, he composed songs for ''

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'' and will produce the music for ''

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''. '' 83- The Film'' is lined up for 2020''.''

Musical style

Pritam has composed and covered some popular songs in a variety of genres including Rock ('' Life in a... Metro''),

(''

'') and even

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(''

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''). His musical style is mainly characterized as a delicate fusion of

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with contemporary undertones.

Allegations of plagiarism

Pritam has been alleged to have plagiarized numerous songs from the beginning of his film music career. Hits such as "Pehli Nazar Mein" was plagiarized from the Korean song "Sarang Hae Yo" by Kim Hyung Su (2005). His critically acclaimed soundtrack ''

'' also faced allegations of plagiarism as the guitar riff of the song "Bulleya" was lifted from the Papa Roach song "Last Resort".

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India says, Indian music plagiarism tracking site www.itwofs.com alleges 52 instances between 2004 and 2010 where Pritam's songs are said to be "lifted", "copied", "plagiarized", or "similar" to those of tunes by other composers, who range from Arab and East Asian artists (such as Ihab Tawfik, Yuri Mrakadi and Kim Hyung-sub) to Western musicians like

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and

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. "I made mistakes initially.. ", Pritam said in an interview with

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on his plagiarism charges.

On screen appearance

Music videos and films

* ''

'' (Music video for the song "Bheegi Bheegi") * '' Life in A... Metro'' (Guest appearance) * ''

'' (Promotional Music video for the song "Safar") * "Biba" ''

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x Pritam, Shirley Setia'' (Music Video)

Television

Pritam mentored and judged

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and was a judge for

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. He was also a guest judge for the

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and

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's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2012–13. He also composed the title track for

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’s TV series Just Dance for

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which was sung by KK. Pritam sang some of his top hits on the popular show MTV Unplugged (Season 5) on 13 February 2016. Pritam is the mentor and judge of

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2016 ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa'' is an Indian Hindi-language reality singing television show. It started airing on Zee TV in 1995 as ''Sa Re Ga Ma''. It is the oldest running game show in India as well as the oldest show on private television in India. The ...

alongside

Mika Singh Mika Singh (born 10 June 1977) is an Indian singer. His songs include "Bas Ek King" ('' Singh Is Kinng''), "Mauja Hi Mauja" (''Jab We Met''), "Ibn-e-Batuta" (''Ishqiya''), and "Dhanno" ('' Housefull''). He has released several solo albums and a ...

and

Sajid–Wajid Sajid–Wajid was an Indian Bollywood Hindi film music director duo consisting of brothers Sajid Khan and Wajid Khan, the sons of Sharafat Ali Khan, a tabla player. Wajid Khan, the younger of the two brothers, died on June 1, 2020. Since th ...

. He was also a part of Star plus’ show Dil Hai Hindustani as a judge alongside

and Badshah in 2018.

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* {{Authority control Living people Indian male playback singers Bengali musicians Film and Television Institute of India alumni Filmfare Awards winners Indian film score composers Singers from West Bengal 1971 births Bollywood playback singers Zee Cine Awards winners Indian male film score composers 21st-century Indian male singers 21st-century Indian singers