Rohit Sharma (composer)


Rohit Sharma is an Indian film composer, working in Bollywood. His film composing career began during the early 2010s when he wrote the song 'Naham Janami' which was featured in the critically acclaimed film Ship Of Theseus and then later scored Buddha in a Traffic Jam, which was released in 2016. In 2017 came Anaarkali of Aarah, which won him award at 8th Jagran Film Festival.

Early life

Rohit Sharma was born in New Delhi, India, and completed a bachelor's degree in Engineering from Delhi College Of Engineering in 1996. He started taking formal education in Music from Pt. Harshwardhan for Classical Flute. Simultaneously, he trained himself in Western Classical Piano from the Delhi School of Music. In the year 2000 he quit his job to become a composer in Mumbai, India.

Career

After doing a number of jingles, title songs and commercials for Television, he then wrote the song 'Naham Janami' for the feature film Ship of Theseus in 2009 and the score for Buddha In A Traffic Jam in 2011, which were then released in 2013 and 2016 respectively. While Ship of Theseus had a track composed by him, Buddha In A Traffic Jam got him critical acclaim for having seventeen tracks that include music genres as varied as Tribal Blues, Folk Rock and Rock opera to Nazm by Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Blues and Jazz tracks used in a soundtrack of the movie. Meanwhile, he also composed music for feature films Shortcut Safari and Barefoot To Goa. In 2016, he was offered to score music for Anaarkali of Aarah, where he got the chance to experiment with folk music and folk songs from Bihar. The same year he gave music for Colours of Life. Both these movies are releasing in 2017.
Apart from composing for films, Rohit Sharma is also part of a band called Swaang.

Music Filmography

Awards

award in 8th Jagran Film Festival 2017 for the movie Anaarkali of Aarah.