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Known for
Music Director
Gender
Female
Date of Birth
1983-04-28
Location
Madhya Pradesh, India
Edit pageSneha Khanwalkar
Biography
Sneha Khanwalkar is an Indian music director who works in Hindi films. She is best known for her score for the film, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, and also for Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1, Part 2.
She had been nominated in the Best Music Director category at the 58th Filmfare Awards for Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 & Part 2 (credited as music director of Gangs of Wasseypur). She is only the second woman to gain a nomination in this category 28 years after Usha Khanna.
In 2004, she scored the movie The Hope, which competed at the International Filmfest Emden in Germany. Meanwhile, she also did the title track for Ruchi Narain's film, KAL – Yesterday and Tomorrow (2005), though her big break came when she composed music for the 2007 movie Go, produced by Ram Gopal Varma, and also got to compose a song for Sarkar Raj (2008).
In 2008, she won accolades for her score for the film, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! for which she traveled through rural North India, especially Haryana, where she visited the Raagini music festival, while researching the film's music, eventually she created a hit soundtrack, embellished with Haryanvi musical influences.
She was the music director of Anurag Kashyap's celebrated movie Gangs of Wasseypur (Part 1 & Part 2), for which she was nominated in the Best Music Director category at the 58th Filmfare Awards.
