Samidh Mukherjee (also spelled Mukherjee, bn, সমিধ মুখোপাধ্যায়) is an Indian

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 withou ...

songwriter A songwriter is a musician who professionally composes musical compositions or writes lyrics for songs, or both. The writer of the music for a song can be called a composer, although this term tends to be used mainly in the classical music ...

and

music composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Def ...

from

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. Mukherjee mainly works on

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and

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language films and television shows,. He also part of the Bengali music director's duo Samidh- Rishi.

Career

Later in his career Mukerjee composed many popular songs for many Bengali films. Some of his successful projects as a music composer are ''

Macho Mustanaa ''Macho Mustanaa'' is a 2012 Bengali action and romance film directed by Reshmi Mitra and produced under the banner of Remac Filmz Production. The film features actors Hiran and Pooja in the lead roles. Music of the film has been composed by S ...

'', '' Loveria'', ''Kranti'', ''Josh'', ''Dui Prithibi'', ''

Shedin Dekha Hoyechilo ''Sedin Dekha Hoyechilo'' is a 2010 Indian romantic Bengali film directed by Sujit Mondal.''Published: bindaskolkata.com'Sedin Dekha Hoyechilo – 2010''accessed: 29 June 2011'' It's a Shree Venkatesh Films production. The film stars Dev and ...

'', ''100% Love'', ''Om Shanti'', ''Majnu'', ''

Faande Poriya Boga Kaande Re ''Faande Poriya Boga Kaande Re'' is a 2011 Bengali-language Indian romantic comedy film, directed by Soumik Chattopadhyay, starring Soham Chakraborty and Srabanti Chatterjee. The film is a remake of the 2010 Telugu film ''Maryada Ramanna ' ...

'' etc. His debut music album ''Amar Blue Sunglass'' was released in 2012 from Remac Muzik. ''Amar Blue Sunglass'' has seven different genres of songs written, composed and sung by Mukerjee himself. Singers from Hindi film and music industry like,

Shreya Ghoshal Shreya Ghoshal (born 12 March 1984) is an Indian singer and television personality. One of the highest-paid and most well-established playback singers of Indian cinema, she has received four National Film Awards, four Kerala State Film Awards ...

, Sunidhi Chauhan, Kunal Ganjawala and many more sang under Mukerjee's music direction in the film

. Shreya Ghoshal sang the song "Jaane Jaana" from the film ''

'' in Mukerjee's composition.

Usha Uthup Usha Uthup Iyer (born 7 November 1947) is an Indian pop, filmi, jazz, and playback singer who sang songs in the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. "Darling", which she recorded with Rekha Bhardwaj for the film ''7 Khoon Maaf'', won the Filmfare ...

also sang in Mukerjee's composition. Kalpana Patowary was nominated as Best Female Playback Singer in 12th Tele-Cine Award, Kolkata for Mukerjee's composition "Koka Kola" from Bengali film ''

''. Mukerjee appeared as an actor in Bengali film '' Loveria'', which was released in 2013. Mukerjee was featured in a song with

Rakhi Sawant Rakhi Sawant (born Neeru Bheda; 25 November 1978) is an Indian dancer, model, actress and television talk show host, who has appeared in many Hindi and a few Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Telugu and Tamil films and was a contestant on the first ...

in the Bengali film ''Om Shanti''. The song was composed and sung by Mukerjee himself. Apart from acting, Mukerjee participated in the Bangla version (regional version) of the dancing reality show (dancing competition) ''Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa'', which was aired in

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. Mukerjee was one of the finalists of the show. Mukerjee was last seen in television as a contestant of

Zee Bangla Zee Bangla is an Indian general entertainment pay television channel broadcasting in the Bengali language. It is owned by the Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It is the first Bengali-language satellite television channel in India, officially com ...

's ''

Dance Bangla Dance ''Dance Bangla Dance'' is a Bengali reality show program, which airs in Zee Bangla. It was later remade in Hindi as ''Dance India Dance''. It first started on 6 April 2007, following ''Dance India Dance'' by Mithun Chakraborty, who had been the ...

'' Season 8. He was among the finalists of the show. Mukerjee recently composed two songs for Pallavi Chatterjee's album ''Folk Sutra''.

Awards

Samidh- Rishi composer duo got

Fever 104 FM Fever FM is an FM radio station in India. It is currently available in 13 cities in India: Music & Bollywood Fever plays contemporary hit music in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, while the other cities have a mix of contemporary and retro Bollywo ...

Best Music Director Award for the film ''

''.
Mukerjee was nominated for Best Music Director Award for the film '' Loveria'' (Tele Cine Awards 2013).

Filmography

Music album

Television

References

External links

Official Website
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