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11 Facts About Sohail Sen

1.

Sohail Sen was born on 24 June 1984 and is an Indian film composer, musician and singer who works in Bollywood.

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Sohail Sen debuted as a film composer with the Hindi film Sirf, which went majorly unnoticed.

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Sohail Sen is known for composing the popular soundtracks of Mere Brother Ki Dulhan, Ek Tha Tiger, and Gunday.

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Sohail Sen learnt to play the tabla as a child, and then went on to learn various musical instruments including the piano and percussion and rhythm instruments.

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Sohail Sen learnt classical music from his grandfather Shri Shambhu Sen.

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Sohail Sen began his career as a music director at the young age of thirteen when he composed the music for a telefilm titled Roshni and for which renowned singer Kavita Krishnamurthy provided playback.

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Sohail Sen then decided to assist his father for nine years to fine-tune his skills as a film composer.

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In 2008, Sohail Sen began his career as a film composer, with the Hindi film Sirf the film was supposed to be released in 2006, but it got delayed badly and was released in 2008 and eventually the music went unnoticed.

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Sohail Sen composed the music for The Murderer, which got delayed and the music went unnoticed.

10.

Sohail Sen's first meeting with Gowariker was a casual one at his office, it was where he told him that he would like to make him listen to some of his compositions.

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Besides composing the soundtrack and the film score, Sohail Sen even sang most of the songs in the film.