Rohit Sharma (composer)

Rohit Sharma is an Indian film composer, working in Bollywood. His film composing career began during the early 2010s when he wrote the song 'Naham Janami' which was featured in the critically acclaimed[1][2][3][4] film Ship Of Theseus[5] and then later scored Buddha in a Traffic Jam,[6] which was released in 2016. In 2017 came Anaarkali of Aarah, which won him Best Music Director award at 8th Jagran Film Festival.

This article is about the film-composer. For other uses, see Rohit Sharma (disambiguation).

Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma at his Studio
Background information
BornNew Delhi, India
GenresFilm Scores, Classical
Occupation(s)Composer
Years active2005–present

Early life

Rohit Sharma was born in New Delhi, India, and completed a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Delhi College Of Engineering in 1996. He started taking formal education in Music from Pt. Harshwardhan for Classical Flute. Simultaneously, he trained himself in Western Classical Piano from the Delhi School of Music. In the year 2000 he quit his job to become a composer in Mumbai, India.

Career

After doing a number of jingles, title songs and commercials for Television, he then wrote the song 'Naham Janami' for the feature film Ship of Theseus in 2009 and the score for Buddha In A Traffic Jam in 2011, which were then released in 2013 and 2016 respectively. While Ship of Theseus had a track composed by him, Buddha In A Traffic Jam got him critical acclaim for having seventeen tracks that include music genres as varied as Tribal Blues, Folk Rock and Rock opera to Nazm[7] by Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Blues and Jazz tracks used in a soundtrack of the movie. Meanwhile, he also composed music for feature films Shortcut Safari and Barefoot To Goa. In 2016, he was offered to score music for Anaarkali of Aarah,[8][9] where he got the chance to experiment with folk music and folk songs from Bihar. The same year he gave music for Colours of Life. Both these movies are releasing in 2017.

Apart from composing for films, Rohit Sharma is also part of a band called Swaang.

Music Filmography
Year Film Notes
2011 Buddha in a Traffic Jam
2012 Ship of Theseus
2017 Anaarkali of Aarah
2019 The Tashkent Files
2020 Taish Only lyricist

Awards

Best Music Director award in 8th Jagran Film Festival 2017 for the movie Anaarkali of Aarah.

References
  1. Torontoist (6 September 2012). "Ship of Theseus". Torontoist. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  2. "Shekhar Kapur on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  3. "Hugo Weaving to present Ship Of Theseus in Australia - Indian Express". archive.indianexpress.com. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  4. "Ship of Theseus - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  5. Elkashef, Aida; Shah, Yogesh; Khan, Faraz; Youssef, Hannan (19 July 2013), Ship of Theseus, retrieved 1 March 2017
  6. "The Music Of 'Buddha In A Traffic Jam' Is A Result Of Great Hardwork: Rohit Sharma - Bollywoodirect". Bollywoodirect. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  7. "'बेकार कुत्ते' : बुद्धा, फ़ैज़, नक्सलवाद अौर ट्रैफिक जाम". LallanTop - News with most viral and Social Sharing Indian content on the web in Hindi. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  8. "Who is the musician behind Anaarkali of Aarah's soulful songs? Find out here!". www.deccanchronicle.com/. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  9. http://www.jagran.com/personalities/15576546.html
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