Amit Trivedi (born 8 April 1979) is an Indian music composer, singer, songwriter, and record producer who works mainly in Hindi cinema. He began his career composing music for theatre, jingles, and non-film albums before making his film debut with the Hindi film Aamir (2008).[1]
Amit Trivedi was born in Bandra, Mumbai. He was raised listening to devotional songs and Gujarati folk music, which influenced his early musical tastes. His family has roots in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. During his school years, he developed an interest in electronic musical instruments, which influenced his later compositions.[3]
Career
In college, Trivedi started a band known as Om the Fusion Band alongside Amartya Bobo Rahut, Shriram Iyer, and fellow members Ram and Vish. They performed local gigs, small shows, and live performances, and they experienced a breakthrough after gaining the attention of Times Music who offered to launch their album. However, the album was a commercial flop.[4] Trivedi pursued independent projects, composing for theatre (Hindi, English, and Gujarati plays), background music for television shows, programming for some Marathi films, live performances, dandiya shows, and orchestras. He also composed advertising jingles for brands such as McDonald's and Airtel.[5] After sound engineer and Audio Garage Recording Studio owner Arvind Vishwakarma introduced Trivedi to Sony BMG, he began composing music for non-film albums. As part of his two-year contract, Trivedi composed tracks for Abhijeet Sawant's Junoon and one song in Prashant Tamang's debut album. He arranged for multiple musicians, including Rahut, and once for a Marathi film, Uttarayan, in 2004.
He began composing film music when his friend and playback singer, Shilpa Rao, recommended him to Anurag Kashyap, who was in search of a new composer with a distinct vision for an upcoming film. After meeting Trivedi, Kashyap offered him the chance to compose the soundtrack to Dev.D. Although it was scheduled to be his debut, Dev.D ran into production delays and was shelved for some time.
Upon Kashyap's recommendation, Trivedi was brought in for Raj Kumar Gupta's directorial venture Aamir. Trivedi and Gupta worked on aligning the soundtrack with the film narrative, which garnered critical recognition.[6]
By the end of 2008, Dev.D was released. The soundtrack, released in December, consisted of 18 tracks of different genres. Trivedi dubbed the soundtrack the "baap (father) of different genres." He sang five songs on the soundtrack and wrote the lyrics for one ("Aankh Micholi"). He gained some notoriety with the unusual music of Dev.D, which produced some "chart busters", including "Emosanal Attyachar", "Saali Khushi", "Pardesi", "Nayan Tarse", and more. He was awarded both the Filmfare R. D. Burman Award for New Music Talent and the Best Background Score at the 55th Filmfare Awards, in addition to his first nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director,[citation needed] before receiving the National Film Award for Best Music Direction, the highest recognition for Indian composers. Trivedi wrote the score for Wake Up Sid (2009), and one of his compositions, "Iktara", was also included in the soundtrack. In 2009, Anshu Sharma offered Trivedi the opportunity to compose the team anthem "Game for More" for Royal Challengers Bangalore, a team owned by liquor baron Vijay Mallya. Between scoring for films, Trivedi wrote the title track for the reality show Big Switch aired on UTV Bindaas. He also provided the music and background score for the ensemble romantic comedy-drama Aisha (2010), providing vocals for two songs, "Suno Aisha" and "Sham". He composed the songs and score for Ishaqzaade (2012) and Lootera (2013), which earned him his second and third nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, and the soundtrack for Vikas Bahl's highly acclaimed Queen (2014), which earned him his fourth nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director.
He earned three consecutive nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for his diverse compositions in Udta Punjab (2016), Secret Superstar (2017), and Manmarziyaan (2018).
He won Best Song for "Naina Da Kya Kasoor" at the News18 Reel Movie Awards from Andhadhun (2018). He also sang "Laila Laila" for the film. In 2019, Power Brands honored him with the Best Music Director of the Year award for Andhadhun at the Bollywood Film Journalists Awards (BFJA).[7]
Trivedi again earned two consecutive nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for his compositions in Haseen Dillruba (2021) and Uunchai (2022).
Trivedi composed the official anthem of the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup, with lyrics by Kausar Munir and vocals by Sharvi Yadav and Anand Bhaskar. The composition, identified with the Indipop genre, incorporates elements of vocal orchestra.[8]
Amit Trivedi has been accused of plagiarizing music more than once.[12] He was accused of copying the background score for Lootera from Rachel Portman's "We Had Today" track from One Day's (2011) original soundtrack.[13] Despite evidence that a section of the musical score was lifted from Portman's composition, Trivedi, as well as Lootera's director/producer Vikramaditya Motwane and producer Anurag Kashyap, defended the similarities as mere coincidence.[14] In 2015, he was accused again for his composition of the ballad "Nazdeekiyan" for Dharma Productions' Shandaar (2015), which was similar to popular alternative-rock band Coldplay's "Oceans" from their sixth studio album Ghost Stories (2014).
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