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Amitabh Bhattacharya (born 16 November 1976) is an Indian lyricist and playback singer who works in Bollywood films. He shot to fame with the film Dev.D with the song "Emotional Atyachar" turning an instant hit. He sang this song under the name "Band Master Rangeela And Rasila".
“I had come to Mumbai with the vision of becoming a singer and I became a lyricist by chance. I’d just found a footing as a lyricist in the industry around the time Lootera happened, so it...
Dec 16, 2016 · Bhattacharya grew up obsessed with Hindi film music, in a Bengali middle-class family in Lucknow in the 1980s. One can see the influence of old Hindi film lyrics on a lot of his work.
- Do You Pick Your Projects Or Do The Projects Pick You?
- How Did You Pick Your One-Time Pen Name Indraneel? Why Did You Drop It?
- One Thing in Your Career You Didn’T Want to Do, But Were Compelled to do.
- Would You Do/ Have You Done Any Projects in Another Language, Say Bangla?
- Across The Board?
- Rapidfire
It works both ways. But mostly, I get picked. At times, if I come across a project that’s open, I listen to the script, gather information about the project and if am interested, I do it.
I did an album for this band called Om The Fusion Band. At the time, I was writing under pen names on the side. I wrote some songs for them and told them not to feature my name. That Mujhe toh singer banna hai aur koi lyricist mujhe kaam nahi dega... that sort of stuff. So, I asked them to use the name Indraneel, but eventually Aamir and Dev.D happ...
Now, I strictly try and do complete albums. That is something I started my career with. But I didn’t do all the songs in Dev.D. I wrote eight songs. For Aamir and Udaan, I wrote them all. Band Bajaa Baaraat too. That’s what I wanted to do. There have been films where I’ve written one or two songs in a few projects I had to do because I had to be in...
I think and write in Hindi having grown up in a place like Lucknow, so no, I don’t think I’d be able to write Bangla lyrics.
I feel it has happened to me. You’ve gone through pain, heartbreak, disappointment... of some sort and it’s something that makes you express yourself better. Definitely, I have strongly felt it.
Amit Trivedi or Pritam? Both obviously. That comes my way pretty often. I feel they’re two wheels of the system. They balance it out for me.
- Bryan Durham
His major breakthrough came when Trivedi was working on the music of Anurag Kashyap's Dev.D, Trivedi insisted Bhattacharya write rough lyrics. Bhattacharya wrote the lyrics for the songs of Dev.D, and most of its major songs became a hit, thus nearly ending 8 years of his struggle for recognition.
Dec 22, 2015 · The song writer discusses his approach, his take on censorship, and the role of the Hindi film song in contemporary cinema.
May 16, 2013 · And to think Bhattacharya came to Mumbai from Lucknow to become a playback singer. His stepping stone to becoming a lyricist was writing dummy lyrics for colleagues-turned-friends such as Pritam and Trivedi s erstwhile band,Om.
