Anindya Chatterjee

Anindya Chatterjee
Anindya Chatterjee
	Anindya Chatterjee
Born	Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Occupations	Film director; Music director; Lyricist; Producer; Actor;
Years active	1989–present

Anindya Chatterjee is an Indian Bengali film director, music director, singer, lyricist, actor and producer based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is the singer-lyricist of Bengali band Chandrabindoo. In recent times he has composed multifarious songs in Bengali mainstream films as an independent music director.^[1]^[2]

Education

He is an alumnus of the Scottish Church Collegiate School.^[3] He earned an undergraduate degree from the Scottish Church College at the University of Calcutta.^[4] As a student at Scottish in the late 1980s, he was invited to perform at the college's annual fest Caledonia, following which he performed his composition Sweetheart. After the success of this song, he became initiated in the Kolkata college festival circuit. In 1989, the band Chandrabindoo was formed, by him along with his college mates Rajesh Bose, Upal Sengupta and Chandril Bhattacharya.^[5]

Films

As director

	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Actors
2015	Open Tee Bioscope	Riddhi Sen, Rwitobroto Mukherjee, Surangana Bandyopadhyay, Dhee Majumder, Rajatava Dutta
2017	Projapoti Biskut	Ishaa Saha, Aditya Sengupta, Shantilal Mukherjee
2018	Manojder Adbhut Bari	Soumitra Chattopadhyay, Sandhya Roy, Abir Chatterjee
2021	Prem Tame	Soumya Mukherjee, Sweta Mishra, Susmita Chatterjee

As actor

	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Role
2003	Shubho Mahurat	as Shubhankar
2013	Satyanweshi	as Ajit
2016	Praktan	as himself
2018	Red Cycle	as himself
2019	Durgeshgorer Guptodhon	Pinakpani Deb Roy
2021	Amra 2GayTher

As lyricist

	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Songs	Music director	Notes
2008	Antaheen	"All Songs"	Shantanu Moitra	Along with Chandril Bhattacharya, Won a National Film Award for Best Lyricst for the song 'Pherari Mon'.
2009	Prem Aamar	"Jage Re (Male)"	Jeet Gannguli	Along with Priyo Chattopadhyay, Gautam Sushmit
2012	Bapi Bari Jaa	"Chaap Nis Na"	Jeet Gannguli	Along with Prasen, Chandrani Gannguli, Srijato
2012	Aparajita Tumi	"All Songs"	Shantanu Moitra	Along with Chandril Bhattacharya, Neha Rungta
2012	Paanch Adhyay	4 Songs – "Baavri", "Agontuk", "Uda jaay", "Phire paoar gaan"	Shantanu Moitra	Along with Chandril Bhattacharya
2014	Buno Haansh	"Anka Banka Alo Dhaka", "Bela Boye Jay"	Shantanu Moitra	Along with Srijato, Chandril Bhattacharya
2016	Praktan	"Moner Guptochar"	Himself	Along with Anupam Roy, Radha Raman
2017	Posto	"Jonaki"	Himself
2017	Chaamp	"Tu Hi Hai Chaamp" (Title Track), "Maula Re"	Jeet Gannguli	Along with Raja Chanda, Raftaar, Anupam Roy
2017	(Bengali Puja song)	"Phire Aaye"	Jeet Gannguli
2017	Haami	"All Songs"	Arindam Chatterjee & Himself
2017	"Cockpit"	"mithe alo"	Arindam Chatterjee	along with prasen, koushik ganguly
2019	Konttho	"Bornoporichoy"	Anupam Roy & Himself	along with Prashmita Paul
2025	Aarii	"Aarii (Title Track)"	Himself

References

^ Datta, Sravasti (13 September 2013). "Singer, writer, philosopher". The Hindu.
^ Sarkar, Roushni. "Dubbing for filmmaker Anindya Chatterjee's Prem Tame completed". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020.
^ "Old boys' meet". Kolkota: The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
^ Some Alumni of Scottish Church College in 175th Year Commemoration Volume. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 588
^ A musical journeytelegraphindia.com. Retrieved 4 October 2012

[1] Datta, Sravasti (13 September 2013). "Singer, writer, philosopher". The Hindu.

[2] Sarkar, Roushni. "Dubbing for filmmaker Anindya Chatterjee's Prem Tame completed". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020.

[3] "Old boys' meet". Kolkota: The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2014.

[4] Some Alumni of Scottish Church College in 175th Year Commemoration Volume. Scottish Church College, April 2008. page 588

[musical-5] A musical journeytelegraphindia.com. Retrieved 4 October 2012

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v t e National Film Award for Best Lyrics
1968–1980	Kannadasan (1968) Kaifi Azmi (1969) – (1970) – (1971) Vayalar Ramavarma (1972) – (1973) Sri Sri (1974) – (1975) – (1976) – (1977) – (1978) – (1979) – (1980)
1981–2000	– (1981) – (1982) – (1983) Vasant Dev (1984) Vairamuthu (1985) – (1986) Gulzar (1987) O. N. V. Kurup (1988) Satarupa Sanyal (1989) Gulzar (1990) K. S. Narasimhaswamy (1991) Vairamuthu (1992) Veturi (1993) Vairamuthu (1994) Amit Khanna (1995) Javed Akhtar (1996) Javed Akhtar (1997) Javed Akhtar (1998) Vairamuthu (1999) Yusufali Kechery and Javed Akhtar (2000)
2001–2020	Javed Akhtar (2001) Vairamuthu (2002) Suddala Ashok Teja (2003) Pa. Vijay (2004) Baraguru Ramachandrappa (2005) Swanand Kirkire (2006) Prasoon Joshi (2007) Anindya Chatterjee and Chandril Bhattacharya (2008) Swanand Kirkire (2009) Vairamuthu (2010) Amitabh Bhattacharya (2011) Prasoon Joshi (2012) Na. Muthukumar (2013) Na. Muthukumar (2014) Varun Grover (2015) Vairamuthu and Anupam Roy (2016) J. M. Prahlad (2017) Manjunatha S. Reddy (2018) Prabha Varma (2019) Manoj Muntashir (2020)
2021–present	Chandrabose (2021) Naushar Sadar Khan (2022) Kasarla Shyam (2023)