Pritam
Indian music director and composer
Pritam Chakraborty (born 14 June 1971), also popularly known mononymously as Pritam, is a National Film Award winning Indian composer. Graduating from FTII in Sound Engineering, he worked as an ad jingle composer, sound designer & theme music composer for TV serials, and later debuted as a co-composer alongside Jeet Gannguli in the 2001 Hindi film Tere Liye.
He debuted as a solo composer with the 2003 film Stumped. However, it was the soundtrack of Dhoom (2004), most notably the title track, which earned him his first big break in the industry and helped him win the Zee Cine Award for Best Track of the Year & vast acknowledgements.
In a career spanning over two decades, he has composed music for more than 125 Bollywood films and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a National Film Award in 70th National Film Awards in 2022 and nine Filmfare Awards. While he initially worked only on soundtracks and had multiple early collaborations with Vishesh Films and Yash Raj Films, the romantic drama Barfi! with Anurag Basu marked his first venture as a background score composer, and he later diversified his repertoire through collaborations with Dharma Productions, T-Series Films and Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment.
Pritam founded JAM8 in 2016, which is an A&R music production platform. JAM8 studio, which is located in Mumbai, is one of the most advanced music production facilities and studios in India. JAM8 has also provided music in various films with its in house composers.
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