Pritam Chakraborty, known mononymously as Pritam, is an Indian composer, instrumentalist, guitarist, and singer.
22 Facts About Pritam
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Pritam was born in a Bengali Brahmin family to Anuradha Chakraborty and Prabodh Chakraborty.
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Pritam gained his early training in music from his father and learnt to play the guitar while he was still in school.
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Pritam went to St James' School and has a bachelor's degree in geology from Presidency College.
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Pritam was associated with the non-partisan political platform Independents' Consolidation during his days at Presidency.
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In 1994, Pritam joined FTII, Pune where he took up Sound Recording and Engineering.
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Pritam formed a band with his presidency batchmates, called "Jotugriher Pakhi" for which, he used to play the guitar.
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Pritam's compositions were noted for their ability to blend Indian classical music with western styles.
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Pritam followed this up with compositions for films like Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani, Race, Kismat Konnection, Jannat, Gangster and Dhoom 2.
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Pritam formed a band called Metro with Suhail Kaul, Sohu pet name Chakraborty, Eric Pillai and Bangladeshi singer James for the movie.
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Pritam won his second Zee Cine Award for Best Track of the Year for the song "Mauja Hi Mauja" from Jab We Met by Imtiaz Ali.
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Pritam composed for two more Imtiaz Ali films, Love Aaj Kal and Cocktail which were critically and commercially successful.
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Pritam teamed up again with Mahesh Bhatt and Vishesh Films for music of Crook of which the song "Mere Bina" got instant recognition with public.
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Pritam recreated the famous 1971 song, "Dum Maro Dum" for Ramesh Sippy's 2011 movie of the same name.
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Pritam then composed for the romance Mausam which had a strong influence of Punjabi.
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Pritam composed the whole soundtracks of Dishoom, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil and Dangal.
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Pritam has been alleged to have plagiarized numerous songs from the beginning of his film music career.
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Pritam's critically acclaimed soundtrack Ae Dil Hai Mushkil faced allegations of plagiarism as the guitar riff of the song "Bulleya" was lifted from the Papa Roach song "Last Resort".
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Pritam mentored and judged Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009 and was a judge for Chhote Ustaad on Zee TV.
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Pritam composed the title track for Hrithik Roshan's TV series Just Dance for Star TV which was sung by KK.
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Pritam sang some of his top hits on the popular show MTV Unplugged on 13 February 2016.
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Pritam was a part of Star plus' show Dil Hai Hindustani as a judge alongside Sunidhi Chauhan and Badshah in 2018.