Amit Trivedi

Amit Trivedi is a multifaceted personality. He is a music director, lyricist, composer, and music producer, and predominantly works in the Bollywood cinema. Amit Trivedi is an admired and respected personality in the film industry who has produced incredible songs and penned fascinating music lines that are adored by the public. He holds a phenomenal craze among the public and understands the intricacies of music deeply. His music brings a sense of warmth, positivity, and happiness to the listener. He has deeply contributed to the Music Industry and enriched the music with his voice. He has received several awards for his music and has composed music for more than 50 songs, including Fitoor, Kai Po Che, Udaan, Dev D, and Queen.

Early Background

Amit has an inclination towards music from a very early young age and was born on 8 April 1979. He was deeply passionate about music and started composing music at a very tender age, 19-20. He was also part of the music band, namely, OM, during his college time. Amit has also performed at shows and local functions. The band did give some musical performances and got an album released by Times Music, but the album failed. The reason cited for the failure was poor promotion.

His father and mother were working in the company that used to produce cameras and bags. He was introduced to the music when he was preparing for the Class 10th Board Exam. He has done his schooling in Mumbai and completed his college studies at Rizvi College, Mumbai, Maharashtra. He also began to play piano at a very tender age and was immensely inspired by jazz music.

He went to the Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music to study music, where he got to know about music production and composition.

Personal Life

Amit Trivedi is married to Krutee Desai Trivedi. Krutee and Amit both of them knew each other from college days. She is an executive Associate and admin at Pepperfry.com. Both have been blessed with a son, whom they have named Yaman.

Accomplishments

Amit Trivedi has received numerous awards for his incredible and soothing music. The award list includes Two National Awards, two Mirchi Music, two IIFA Awards, three Filmfare Awards, 1 Big Star Entertainment Award, one Stardust Award, 1 Zine Cine Award, 2 Mirchi Awards, 1 Screen Award, Television Producers Guild Awards, 1 Star Guild Awards, and many more.

Music Style

His music contains an element of classical Indian music with the fusion of modern music elements. He is often known for experimenting with different genres like EDM, rock, folk, and jazz. He is also known for collaborating with other musicians to produce a distinct sound that could be his own. His compositions are often depicted by the distinct use of the flute, sitar, tabla, and sarod.

Career

In his youth days, he was fascinated by electronic musical instruments and steadily got inclined towards them. The classical music deeply influenced him. By the time he reached the age of 19-20, he started to compose several music compositions. During his college years, he, along with Vish, Ram, Amartya, and Shriram, came up with a band called OM, the fusion band. The band used to perform in local functions, small performances, live performances, and gig functions. The band got a big break when Times Music took note of their performance in one of the shows and provided them with an opportunity to release their album. Sadly, the album did not succeed and did not fare among the listeners; the reason cited for the failure was the lackluster promotion of the album.

Trivedi started to compose for several theatres, particularly Hindi, English, and Gujarati plays, and background music for television shows, dandiya shows, orchestras, live performances, and Marathi films.

He briefly got involved in writing jingles for the advertisements for renowned brands such as Airtel and McDonald's. Arvind Vishwakarma, Audio Garage Recording Studio owner and sound engineer brought Amit Trivedi to the Sony BMG. There, he began composing music for non-film albums. He had entered into a contract for two years in which he produced some tracks for the one song in Prashant Tamang's debut album and the Junnon directed by Abhijeet Sawant.

However, his wait for the film ended. Anurag Kashyap has just come back from New York and has listened to a lot of underground music. He wanted a person who does a similar kind of music in India. He asked Shilpa Rao if there was a person in India who was making music like this. It was Shilpa Rao who conveyed the name of Amit Trivedi to Anurag Kashyap. After the meeting with Trivedi, Kashyap provided him with the opportunity to compose the soundtrack for Dev D. It was to be the first debut of Amit Trivedi. However, Dev D got entangled in the production delays and required some time.

Following Kashyap's selection, Trivedi was brought in to score Raj Kumar Gupta's directorial venture, Aamir. Trivedi and Gupta worked in collaboration on producing a soundtrack that sounds similar to the film narrative. The effort brought massive recognition for his music.

With the culmination of the year 2008, Dev D was finally released. The soundtrack was released in December and contained 18 tracks of diverse genres. He has given voice in the five songs on the soundtrack and penned the lyrics for one i.e., Aankh Micholi. He rose to fame with the music of Dev D, giving many hits like "Saali Khushi," "Emotional Atyachaar," "Nayan Tarse," "Nayan Tarse," and much more. At the 55th Filmfare Awards, he was bestowed with the Filmfare RD Burman Award for New Music and Best Background Score.

He was also honored with the National Film Award for Best Music Direction. It is considered to be the highest recognition for Indian composers, apart from receiving a nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director.

Trivedi was also involved in penning down the score for WakeUp Sid, and his one composition, namely, Iktara, got incorporated into the soundtrack. By 2009, Anshu Sharma brought in Amit Trivedi to compose the team anthem for the IPL franchise Royal Challengers Banglore (RCB). RCB is owned by the liquor baron Vijaya Mallya. Apart from writing music for the films, he also penned down the titled track for the Big Switch, the reality show aired on the UTV Bindass. He also gave background score and music for the romantic-comedy drama Aisha. In this film, he has given voice in the two songs, namely Sham and Suno Aisha. Trivedi also composed the songs for the movies Ishqzaade and Lootera, which led him to get nominated for the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director.

Amit Trivedi also composed songs for the Vikash Bahal-directed renowned film Queen, which also led him to get the fourth nomination in the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director. The film Udta Punjab, Secret Superstar and Manmarziyan got three consecutive nominations for the Filmfare award for Best Music Director.

The official anthem of the T20 ICC Men World Cricket Cup was composed by Amit Trivedi, with support received from the lyricists Kausar Munir and Anand Yadav, and Shari Yadav sang the anthem.

He has appeared in several Television shows broadcast on MTV. The title track for the TV show Aaj Ki Raat Hai Zindagi was composed by him. Amitabh Bachchan was the host of the show. Namo Namo, a popular song in the film Kedarnath, was composed and sung by him.

Popularity Meter

• Song Name: Namo Namo
  This song was released on 9 July 2020 and has received 58 crore views on YouTube and 38 lakh likes. The song was the part of the film Kedarnath starring Sushant Singh Rajput.
• Song Name: Ghode Pe Sawaar
  This song was released on 29 November 2022 and has received more than 64 lakh views on the Netflix YouTube channel and 45 Lakh views on the AZ Hindi lyrics YouTube channel. Amit Trivedi owns a YouTube channel in his name. The song has received 2.4 crore views on his channel.

Unknown Facts

• Trivedi was not good in academics and disliked the subject of history to the extent that he got suspended from the class for 1 year.
• He held that in order to compose music for a movie, it is imperative to know the tradition and culture of the states that the song stands to represent. Acting upon his belief he's been to a lot of places before composing the right music for the film. For example, before composing music for the movie Luv Shuv Tey Chicken Khurrana, he traveled to Punjab and stayed briefly. He also flew for European countries before writing the final music. As these activities take lots of time, he does not like to take more than two projects a year.
• Trivedi is known for singing his compositions. However, he gave his voice to the song "Keh Ke Lung."It was composed by Sneha Khanwalkar from the film Gangs of Wasseypur.
• He does not wish to remain in the limelight and is occasionally seen in Media sessions and TV shows.

Live and Stage Performance

Trivedi has shared the dais with well-known personalities like Ritviz, Katy Perry, Dua Lipa, and The Local Train at the OnePlus Music Festival. At the IIM Banglore, a Coke Studio concert was organized, presenting Tochi Raina, Jaggi, Milli Nair, Tochi Raina, Tanvi Shah, and Mill Nair, along with Amit Trivedi.

Trivedi has performed for the popular brand Bacardi NH7 Weekender held in Delhi, Hyderabad, and Pune. He has held his performance at the annual fest of the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi. Likes of Divya Kumar, Yashita Sharma, Neeti Mohan, and Amit Trivedi held performances at the Spring Fest, the annual festival of IIT Kharagpur, on 1 February 2016.

He has given his stage performances at some of the prestigious and renowned institutions like:

• Gujarat National Law University (19 March 2017)
• Aura is the annual festival of the Gogte Institute of Technology. He was also accompanied by Divya Kumar and Jonita Gandhi.
• Performed at SIESONS, SIES College Nerul. Others who accompanied him in the performance were Yashita Sharma, Jonita Gandhi, Arun Kumar, and Shashwat Singh.
• Live performance at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Banaras Hindu University on 21 January 2018. The name of the program was "Kshatriya."
• Enthralled the students of KJ Somaiya College of Engineering on their cultural festival Symphony.
• Stunning performance at the Engifest of the Delhi Technological University on 16 February 2018.
• Scintillating performance at the Vellore Institute of Technology in their program called Riviera.
• The crowd appreciated his performance at the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore.
• He has been to the "Mecca," the fest organized by the Hindu College, University of Delhi.
• He had been to Gujarat's Largest Cultural Fest, Synapse at DA-IICT, Gandhinagar.
• He recently performed at BITS Pilani in the cultural fest "Oasis" on 22 November 2022.

Conclusion

Amit Trivedi rose from a middle-class family who was living in Mumbai. Amit has not been bright in academics and was introduced to professional singing after his college days. He has a diverse portfolio: from performing in college functions to band, penning jingles for advertisements associated with branded companies like McDonald's, to composing songs for the movies.

Some of the songs, like Namo Namo in the movie Kedarnath, have captured the imagination of the listeners. He has given background music to film and a lot of projects are pending in the backyard. He is a rising star and is expected to grow phenomenally. Some of the songs that are breaking the internet are Love Mashup, Namo Namo, Madhubala, Shubharrambh, Naina Da Kya Kasoor, etc. These songs still spin in the minds of the people. Amit has lots of potential