Pritam

Pritam Chakraborty, better known by the mononym Pritam has composed musical numbers (songs) for more than a hundred Bollywood movies in a career spanning nearly one and a half decades. He has won 5 Filmfare Awards, 4 Zee Cine Awards, 4 Star Screen Awards, 3 IIFA Awards and 3 ITA Awards among many others.

Pritam's composing career started in Bollywood, when he was signed for the film Tere Liye along with his friend Jeet Gannguli, The duo next composed music for the 2002 Yash Raj Films production Mere Yaar Ki Shaadi Hai. The music of the movie was a huge success and most of its songs went on to become chartbusters. After the duo parted ways, Pritam composed music for the second film of Sanjay Gadhvi, Dhoom, which received overwhelming response. Pritam had built a name for his compositions by finely blending Indian classical music with western influences. The title-track of Dhoom in two versions – Hindi (by Sunidhi Chauhan) and English (by Tata Young) – broke geographic barriers becoming popular in pubs in the UK, USA and East Asia. In 2019, Pritam collaborated with Marshmello and Shirley Setia to make Biba, which became an instant hit.