Rohit Sharma is an Indian

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, most famously known for being the music director of the film ''

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''. His film composing career began during the early 2010s when he composed the song 'Naham Janami' which was featured in the critically acclaimed film ''Ship Of Theseus''. Since then, he has composed music for films such as ''

Buddha in a Traffic Jam ''Buddha in a Traffic Jam'' is a 2016 Indian political thriller film written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri. The film released nationwide on 13 May 2016. Although widely panned by critics for its propaganda, the film narrates a tale of inter-m ...

'' (2016), ''

Anaarkali of Aarah ''Anaarkali of Aarah'' (''Anārakalī ŏph Ārā'') is a 2017 Indian film written and directed by debutant Avinash Das. The movie has Swara Bhaskar playing the lead role of a small-town erotic folk dancer in Arrah in Bihar. The movie revolves a ...

'' (2017), ''

The Tashkent Files ''The Tashkent Files – Who Killed Shastri?'' is a 2019 Indian Hindi-language thriller film about the death of former Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri; written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri. The film stars Shweta Basu Prasad, Na ...

'' (2019), ''

'' (2022) and more. In the OTT space, Rohit Sharma has worked on prominent titles such as '' Aspirants'' by ''

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'' and ''Maharani 2'' among others.http://Vishaloppo.blogspot.com

Early life

Rohit Sharma was born in

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, India and holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering from

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in 1996. Since childhood, he had a natural passion and talent for music and taught himself to play the Indian classical flute. Also a gifted singer, he excelled in music & singing competitions all through school and college, bagging multiple awards as a result. At the age of 17, he sought formal education from Pt. Harshwardhan for Classical

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. Simultaneously, he trained himself in Western Classical

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from the

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. In the year 2000, he quit his job to become a professional music

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in Mumbai, India.

Career

His music career began with composing a number of jingles and music for TVCs, with agencies such as

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, Rediffusion Y&R, JWT, Mudra Communications and production companies namely Percept Pictures, Situations, Kiss Films, Ishana Movies and more. In 2009, he kickstarted his film composing career by composing and arranging the song 'Naham Janami' for the feature film ''

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''. Further, he created the score for ''Buddha In A Traffic Jam'' in 2011. These two films were released in 2013 and 2016 respectively. While he earned notable recognition for his track in Ship of Theseus, Buddha In A Traffic Jam got him widespread critical acclaim for having seventeen tracks that included music genres as varied as ''Tribal Blues'', ''

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'' and ''

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'' to ''

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'' and ''

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''. The soundtracks also included two Nazms namely "Bekaar Kutte" and "Chand Roz", written by

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, a revolutionary poet from Pakistan. He continued to compose music for several feature films during this period. In 2016, he scored the music for ''

'', where he got the chance to experiment with folk music and folk songs from Bihar. This won him the Best Music Director award in the

8th Jagran Film Festival The 8th Jagran Film Festival is organized in 16 cities of India namely, Delhi, Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Patna, Dehradun, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Bhopal, Indore, Hisar, Ludhiana, Meerut, Raipur, and Mumbai. This edition of the festival w ...

. In 2017, he created the background score for ''The Holy Fish'' and in 2019, he once again received widespread recognition when he composed all tracks of the film ''The Tashkent Files''''.'' His film composing career reached new heights when he composed the background score (9 themes) for ''

''. The soundtrack for this film was created by recording an orchestra in Budapest, and the longstanding, deep impact of this music won him laurels. Since then, he has composed music for a number of films such as ''Shadow of Othello'' and ''Dhatura'' which are yet to release. Rohit Sharma entered the OTT space in 2018 with composing three songs for the Indian web series ''

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'' by ''

''. In 2021, he composed four songs for the award winning series '' Aspirants'', again by TVF (''

'') including lending his own voice to one track viz. "Mohbhang". The series was nominated for the Best Original Soundtrack (Series) award in 2021 Filmfare OTT Awards and won the Best Music (Originals) Series award at IWM Digital Awards (2022). Rohit Sharma composed all songs for the series '' Maharani 2'' in 2022, where he was lauded for implementing rustic, folk styles from Bihar (where the series is set) in the soundtracks, one of the praises being from renowned folk singer Padma Bhushan

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herself, who was the singer for one of the tracks of this series. In the same year, he also composed two tracks for the web series ''Flames - Season 3'' by ''

''. Besides composing music for films & OTT, Rohit Sharma is also part of a band called ''Swaang''.

Discography

Films

Web Shows (OTT)

Awards

Best Music Director award in

2017 for the movie

. Nominated as Best Original Soundtrack (Series) for Aspirants in 2021 Filmfare OTT Awards. Best Music (Originals) Series for Aspirants in IWM Digital Awards (2022).

References

External links

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Q & A With Rohit Sharma

Ship of Theseus music dir Rohit Sharma's extended interview
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sharma, Rohit Living people Musicians from Mumbai Hindi film score composers Indian male film score composers Year of birth missing (living people)