14 Facts About Neel Dutt

Neel Dutt was born on 7 March 1979 and is an Indian composer and singer from Kolkata.

Neel Dutt received the National Film Award for Best Music Direction from the Govt.

Neel Dutt is arguably the first music director in India to rearrange a Rabindranath Tagore composition with modern electronic music.

Neel Dutt completed his master's degree in English literature from the University of Calcutta in 2002.

Neel Dutt was still in middle school when his father started writing songs in Bengali in 1993.

Neel Dutt received his first Gold Disc from His Master's Voice for their first album, Shuntey Ki chao, which released in 1995.

Neel Dutt scored and composed the whole soundtrack including the songs.

Neel Dutt grew up listening to a lot of sixties and seventies British and American musicians, whose influence seeped into every aspect of his musical performance.

Neel Dutt started playing the guitar from the age of twelve when he was still in junior school.

Neel Dutt began to take private lessons from one of the most prominent guitar players in the country, Amyt Datta, whom Rolling Stone magazine announced to be one of the country's true live guitar gods.

In 2007 Neel Dutt joined his friend and vocalist Arko Mukherjee, a fellow guitar player Rajkumar Sengupta and drummer Deboprotim Baksi to form Friends of Fusion, a contemporary fusion project.

The band split shortly after this and Neel Dutt moved on with his career in films.

In 2014, Neel Dutt composing for filmmaker Aparna Sen's experimental Hindi film Saari Raat.

In 2016, Neel Dutt rejoined Srijit Mukherjee for his film Uma.