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industry. He won

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for Best Music Director (''

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'', 2007), Best Music Composer (''

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'', 2015) and Best Male Playback Singer (''

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'', 2010; ''Bapjaner Bioscope'', 2015).

Musical career

Tutul was a founding member of the band

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. In 2005, he founded a band called "Face to Face" which was later renamed to ''Dhrubotara'' in 2011. In 2006, Bangladesh won an international film award from the International Film Festival in Chennai for the film 'Nirontor. Tutul was the music director of the film, which was selected as a Bangladeshi submission for Academy Award in 2006.' In 2005, filmmaker ''

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'' offered Tutul a movie called ''

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'' which was a success and brought him nationwide fame as a composer. The movie won a number of international awards, especially for the song ‘Keu Prem Kore’ (‘Everyone Loves’) which was a hit in Bangladesh and was tuned, composed and sung by S I Tutul.

Personal life

Tutul was first married to actress-model

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in 1999 and they were divorced in 2021 after five years of separation. He has three sons named Tawab, Sreyash and Arosh. On 4 July 2022, he married Sharmina Siraj Sonia, a television presenter based in the United States.

Awards

Tutul won an international award in 2006 as a music director for the film ''

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'' from International Film Festival in

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, along with several other awards.

References

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