Pritam Chakraborty

Biography

Pritam Chakraborty (born 14 June 1971), also known mononymously as Pritam, is an Indian composer, instrumentalist, guitarist, and singer. After working as an ad jingles composer, he debuted as a co-composer in the 2001 Hindi film Tere Liye. As a solo composer, his composition of the title track of Dhoom helped him win the Zee Cine Award for Best Track of the Year.

In a career spanning nearly two decades, he has composed music for more than 125 Bollywood Movies, and he has been the recipient of numerous awards, including 5 Filmfare Awards for Best Music Director from 21 nominations and 4 Mirchi Music Awards for Music Composer of The Year from 14 nominations.

Pritam was born in a Bengali Brahmin family to Anuradha Chakraborty and Prabodh Chakraborty. He gained his early training in music from his father and learned to play the guitar while he was in school.

He went to St. James' School and has a bachelor's degree in geology from Presidency College. Pritam was associated with the non-partisan political platform Independents' Consolidation during his days in Presidency. In 1994, Pritam joined FTII, Pune where he took up Sound Recording and Engineering.

Pritam formed a band with his presidency batchmates, called "Jotugriher Pakhi" for which, he used to play the guitar. They even have a cassette released to their credit at that time. Pritam joined a Bangla band, Chandrabindoo. Later Pritam started band Metro with James, Suhail, Soham, and Eric during his film called Life in a... Metro.