Chirkutt

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Chirkutt
চিরকুট
Origin Dhaka, Bangladesh
Genres
Years active2002–present
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Past members
  • Rashed Sharif Shoaib
  • Sabbir Ahmed
  • Rokon Emon
  • Pinto Ghosh
  • Anwar Shafiq Tomal
  • Parvez Sazzad

Chirkutt is a Bangladeshi rock band from Dhaka, formed in 2002 by Sharmin Sultana Sumi. [1] [2]

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History

This band was formed in 2002 by Sharmin Sultana Sumi. [3] Emon Chowdhury joined in 2005, Pavel Areen joined in 2008 and Jahid Nirob joined in 2015. [3] [4] Eight years after the band was formed they released their first album Chirkuttnama. [5]

Chirkutt's performed at SXSW-2016 in Austin, US [6] and South Asian Band Festival-Delhi, India, the President house concert in India-2014, India Music Week and the Jaffna Music Festival, Sri Lanka. They were also the winners of the RTV Best Band Award 2012. [2] Chirkutt band has also embarked for a tour in Norway with Norwegian rockers Casa Murilo in 2013. [7] They performed on Asian TV music show in September 2016. [8] [9]

Members

Present members

Past members

Discography

Award

Channel i Music Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2013"যাদুর শহর (City of Magic)"Best Band Album of the YearWon

RTV Music Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2012ChirkuttBest Band of the YearWon

SAARC Film Festival Award

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2016 Jalal's Story Best Original Score [11] Won

Chirkutt in film

The band has also worked on several local film music director. They won the "SAARC" film festival award in 2016 for the best original score of the film Jalal's Story . [12] Chirkutt also have done the playback in the movies Television, [13] and Piprabidya, [14] of director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. They did the soundtrack of Aynabaji of Amitabh Reza Chowdhury 2016 film, [15] Ice cream of Redowan Rony. Chirkutt did the soundtrack of the movie Tumi Je Amar by RTV. [16] They composed the soundtrack of the 2017 movie Doob – No bed of roses.

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