Bann Chakraborty on Clubhouse

Bio

Bann Chakraborty is a music composer for films in advertising & features. He is based in Mumbai, India. His experience in the music business numbers over a decade, composing for ad-films with brands like Cadbury's, Colgate, Britannia and many more, most notably the 'Jaago Re' campaign for TATA Tea.

One of Bann’s recent work in Bollywood is for feature film 'Plan A Plan B', a Netflix original directed by Shashanka Ghosh which released on September 30th, 2022. Apart from scoring the background music in this feature, he has composed the songs “Talli” and 'Keh Do Ke'. 'Talli' also features him singing with Sunidhi Chauhan. His work for the film has been extensively carried across various media platforms like Rolling Stone India, Mid-Day, BIG FM Radio, Outlook, The New Indian Express among others.

Bann’s latest project where he played a role in both composing, producing tracks for the Top 24 finalists as well as mentoring them was for the Nexa Music project’s Season-2, a talent IP produced by QYUKI Digital Media was curated by A. R. Rahman, who selected 24 singers from 2400 + entries received. This project was under the NEXA Lab initiative; the final tracks were released recently.

His previous work in Hindi films brought him a nomination for 'Best Upcoming Composer' at the 5th Mirchi Awards in 2013; for the song 'Mar Jayian' from the feature film 'Vicky Donor' directed by Shoojit Sircar. He has worked with a number of leading singers in the Indian music industry including Vishal Dadlani, Sunidhi Chauhan, Mohit Chauhan, Neeti Mohan, Shilpa Rao and Arijit Singh. His compositions 'Le Chal Mujhey ' and 'Khoney De' for the movie 'NH10' directed by Navdeep Singh were released in 2014.

His influence in pioneering India' s now thriving indie music landscape as the founder and force behind Orange Street, a band active from 1996-2007 had gained international acclaim with performances at UK' s Nottingham Festival, Slotsfjell in Norway, Peace & Love in Sweden and more.