Pritam Chakraborty better known as Pritam, is a music director and composer from Kolkata who currently composes music for Bollywood. He is known for his contribution in the music of Bollywood movies. Pritam's latest album release is the soundtrack of ''Murder 3.''
Till date, he has composed music in more than 100 films. Among notable accolades in his career includes an ''IIFA Award'' and a ''Filmfare Award'' for best music.
Background
Born on 14 June in Kolkata into a Bengali Hindu Brahmin family to Prabodh and Anuradha Chakraborty. Pritam gained his early training in music from his father, who runs a music school in Kolkata and is a renowned radio artist who plays the Hawaiian guitar.
Education
Studied Geology from the esteemed Presidency College. Pritam, with his Presidency batchmates formed a band in college, called "Jotugriher Pakhi". They even have a cassette released to their credit at that time. In January 1993, Pritam joined the Film and Television Institute in Pune to undertake a course in sound recording and sound engineering. During this time, he got a chance to compose music for a lot of diploma films.
Career
During his stay in Mumbai, he began composing ad jingles and became friendly with a number of other young men struggling to make it big like Shantanu Moitra, Rajkumar Hirani, Sanjay Gadhvi and Jeet Ganguly. During this time, Pritam composed famous jingles for brands like ''Santro'', ''Emami'', ''Head and shoulders'' and also composed title tracks for tele serials like ''Astitva, Kavyanjali'', ''Yeh meri lifehain'', ''Remix, Kashmir'', ''Mili, Dil kya kare.''
Pritam got his first break when Sanjay Gadhvi was signed on to direct Tere Liye and he, in turn, signed on his friends Jeet and Pritam as music composers. Though the music was well received, the film sank at the box office.
However, in 2002, Jeet and Pritam were signed for ''Yash Raj Films'', ''Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai'' also directed by Sanjay Gadhvi. After some time, Jeet and Pritam went separate ways and started composing solo.
After the separation with Jeet, Pritam's career as a solo musician stalled as he signed a series of flops like ''Fun2shh... Dudes in the 10th Century''. The film sank at the box office and Pritam’s music too.
In 2004, Pritam composed the music for Sanjay Gadhvi's second film, ''Dhoom'', which was a runaway success. The film did well and the music topped the charts.
Pritam followed up the success of ''Dhoom'' with a string of successful numbers after a year for ''Chocolate'', ''Garam Masala'' and ''Gangster.'' Also he composed the music for ''Dhoom 2'', the sequel to ''Dhoom'' and ''Life In A... Metro.'' He composed the music for ''Singh Is Kinng'' and ''Kismat Konnection'' and formed a band named ''Metro.''
His most top rated musics include the movies ''Dhoom'', ''Dhoom 2'','' Life In A... Metro'', ''Gangster'', ''Bhool Bhulaiyaa'', ''Awarapan'', ''Chocolate'', ''Garam Masala'', ''Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal'', ''Jab We Met'', ''Race'', ''Kismat Konnection'', ''Naqaab'', ''Ankahee'', ''Woh Lamhe'', ''Jannat'', ''Singh Is Kinng'', ''Billu'', ''Love Aaj Kal'', ''Golmaal Returns'', ''Tum Mile'', ''Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani'', ''De Dana Dan'', ''Badmaash Company'', ''Raajneeti'', ''Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai'', ''Crook'', ''Action Replayy'', ''Golmaal 3'', ''Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji'', ''Dum Maaro Dum'', ''Ready'', ''Kucch Luv Jaisaa'', ''Mausam'', ''Desi Boyz'', ''Players'', ''Agent Vinod'' , ''Jannat 2'', ''Ferrari Ki Sawaari'', ''Cocktail'', ''Barfi!'', ''Rush'', ''Murder 3'' and more.
He also composed the track for Hrithik Roshan's TV debut, ''Just Dance.''