Amaal Mallik

Biography

Hailing from a family of musicians, Amaal Mallik is an Indian composer and singer who made his Bollywood debut in 2014 with the Salman Khan starrer Jai Ho. Son of the music director, Daboo Mallik and nephew of Anu Malik, Amaal won the Filmfare Producers Guild Film Award for his composition `Sooraj Dooba Hain` from the film Roy (2014). He has composed several hit songs for movies such as Hate Story 3 (2015), Airlift (2016), Kapoor & Sons (2016), M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016), and Bar Bar Dekho (2016).

In 2015, he worked on the song Kar Gayi Chull (Kapoor & Sons) - a recreated song, originally composed by Badshah. Some of the other songs he composed that year include Rom Rom Romantic (Mastizaade), Hua Hai Aaj Pehli Baar (Sanam Re), and Sab Tera (Baaghi). While Amaal achieved success by collaborating with various music directors by 2015, he had not worked as a solo composer for a movie. 

And it was the year 2016, that saw him work on his first movie - M. S. Dhoni: The Untold Story - wherein he worked as a solo composer. Amaal composed seven songs in the movie, while Rochak Kohli, the guest composer, composed the eighth song. He went on to compose two more songs that year - Sau Aasmaan from the movie Baar Baar Dekho and Ishaara from Force 2.

In 2017, he composed two songs for the movie Badrinath Ku Dulhania viz. Aashiq Surrender Hua and Roke Na Ruke.

Amaal has mostly sung the songs that he has composed viz. O Khuda from the movie Hero (2015), Buddhu Sa Mann from the movie Kapoor & Sons (2016), and Aashiq Surrender Hua from Badrinath Ki Dulhania (2017). In 2016, he also sang `Catch Me If You Can`, composed by Gourov Roshin, from the movie Force 2. His 2019 releases include De De Pyaar De and Kabir Singh. His 2021 releases include Saina and Koi Jaane Na.