Debojyoti Mishra দেবজ্যোতি মিশ্র | |
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Born | Kolkata, India |
Genres | Film score, Music, Bengali Music, Indian Music, World Music |
Occupation | music director composer |
Years active | 1998–present |
Spouse | Jonaki Mukherjee |
Website | www |
Debojyoti Mishra (born 30 April 1963 at Kolkata) is an Indian music director and film composer. [1] He became popular with his minimalist classical compositions for the Hindi film Raincoat , directed by Rituparno Ghosh. [2] He also worked on Bengali films, Chaturanga and Sesher Kobita , directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. [3] He composed songs for the Bengali film Autograph starring Prasenjit Chatterjee, Nandana Sen and Indraneil Sengupta.
He had composed for Shakira in a British production being directed by Enamul Karim. [4]
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