Prashant Pillai

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Prashant Pillai
Born	(1981-09-08) September 8, 1981
Origin	Pune, Maharashtra, India
Genres	Film music, film score, soundtrack, sonic branding, soul, new age, electronic, world, soul, pop
Occupations	Music producer, music programmer, musician, bandleader, composer, arranger, film score writer
Instruments	Percussions, piano
Years active	2000 – Present
Labels	Madras Blues Records (present)
Website	PrashantPillai.com

Prashant Pillai (born September 8, 1981) is a music producer and composer from India.

Early career

After completing his Sound engineering in Chennai, he went on to work with A.R.Rahman and his associate studios. After a short stint with him, he moved on and settled in Pune, where he started scoring for ad jingles, web sonics, and short films. Pillai considers A.R.Rahman to be his professional guide and mentor.

In early 2004, Pillai got his first break to compose a radio jingle and then went on to compose jingles, for both radio and television consumption.

In the year 2007, Prashant scored music for Bejoy Nambiar's, critically acclaimed short film Rahu where he teamed with singer K. S. Krishnan. Bejoy's uncanny knack of selecting unusual and experimental sounds, resulted in Prashant working on a soundtrack, which he still claims to be his best. Rahu soundtrack features Murtaza and Qadir Khan, sons of the Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan. They feature in the soundtrack for the Sufi song, "Betaabi". This song was later used in a Malayalam film City of God.

Film scoring and soundtracks

Prashant's first commercial film score was for a Malayalam movie titled Nayakan, in March 2010, an art and action film. Directed by Lijo Jose Pellissery, Nayakan featured actors like Indrajith, Thilakan, Siddique and Jagathy Sreekumar in pivotal roles.^[1]^[2]

A.R.Rahman releasing Prashant Pillai's music - Nayakan OST

Prashant's mentor A.R.Rahman released the soundtrack of Nayakan on March 16, 2010, at Rahman's Panchathan Studios in Chennai.^[3]^[4]^[5] The Nayakan soundtrack features, 6 songs, one of which is sung by Indrajith (the lead of the film) himself. Prashant worked on this project for over one and a half years, and has fused in elements that is new to the Malayali audience.

In 2011, Prashant collaborated with Lijo once again for City of God^[6] which opened to mixed reviews.^[7]^[8]^[9] The movie stars Prithviraj and Indrajith as pivotal characters, along with Parvathi, Rima Kallingal and Shwetha Menon.

In 2011, he made his debut into commercial cinema with the Bollywood film Shaitan,^[10] directed by his now close friend, mentor and director Bejoy Nambiar, for which Pillai has scored majority of the songs. The film, produced by Anurag Kashyap has a unique soundscape to it; co-composed by eminent composers like Ranjit Barot, Amar Mohile and Anupam Roy.In the same year Prashant scored the original background music for the Malayalam film Bombay March 12 starring National Award winner Mammootty directed by awardwinning screenwriter Babu Janardhan.

2012 saw Prashant scoring the background music for Siddarth Bharathan's Nidra a remake of his father Bharathan's 1981 film also titled Nidra. The film wasn't a commercial hit, but the film and its score was appreciated for its definitive style.^[11] Prashant also scored background music for MTV Rush, a series of 12 short stories on the leading music and entertainment television channel MTV, directed by Bejoy Nambiar of Shaitan fame.

Jan 2013 saw the release of Prashant's third soundtrack for Bejoy Nambiar, in his upcoming film, David. The soundtrack, which was supervised and co-produced by Prashant, is a compilation of various bands like Bram Fatura, Light Years Explode, MaatiBaani as also artists like Remo Fernandes, Anirudh Ravichander and Mikey McCleary. Apart from sound design, Prashant's tracks in the film feature eminent singers like Lucky Ali, Karthik, Shweta Pandit and Naresh Iyer. The film stars Vikram, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Jiiva, Isha Sharvani and Tabu among others, released in Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

Post City of God ^[6] Prashant scored for Lijo Jose Pellissery's first Malayalam musical film titled "Amen" (2013). The album features artists like Ramya Nambeesan, Alyssa Mendonsa and Lucky Ali This is a romantic comedy featuring actors Indrajith Sukumaran, Fahadh Faasil, Swati of Subramaniapuram fame and Kalabhavan Mani among others. For this film that narrates the story of a village and its fervent parish, Prashant will also be setting the background score.

Awards

2013 -16th Asianet Film Awards 2014 - Best Music Director - Amen^[12]
2013 - TTK Prestige-Vanitha Film Awards - Best Music Director - Amen^[13]

Future and Unreleased works

He is composing 1 theme song for the Indian production English film "Gandhi Of The Month" starring American actor Harvey Keitel and Ayush Mahesh Khedekar. His other projects include, a Balaji Telefilms and Bejoy Nambiar production titled "Kuku Mathur ki Jhand Ho Gayi" and Disco in Malayalam.

Discography

A selected discography of Prashant's music albums

Year	Title	Genre	Group	Label
2003	Om Ganeshaya Namaha (as Prashant Pillai)	Devotional	-	Independent
2005	Amhi Puneri (as Prashant Pillai)	Pop	-	Independent
2011	debut (as Prashant Pillai)	World/Fusion/Lounge	Groove Loves Company	Madras Blues Rechords

Filmography

Year	Title	Language	Label	Notes
2007	Rahu	Malayalam	Independent	Short film (as Prashant-Krishnan)
2010	Nayakan	Malayalam	Manorama Music	Songs and Background Score
2011	City of God	Malayalam	Satyam Audio	Songs and Background Score
	Shaitan	Hindi	T-Series	Songs only( 7 out of 14 tracks)
	Bombay March 12	Malayalam		Background Score only
2012	Nidra	Malayalam		Background Score only
2012	Nee Ko Njaa Cha	Malayalam	Manorama Music	Songs only
2013	David / David	Hindi / Tamil	T-Series	3 Songs only
	Amen	Malayalam	Mathrubhumi Music	Songs and Background Score
	5 Sundarikal	Malayalam	Mathrubhumi Music	Songs and Background Score for Esha
	Sixteen	Hindi		Three Songs and Background Score
	Issaq	Hindi		Background Score only
	Zachariayude Garbhinikal	Malayalam		Background Score only
	Ezhu Sundara Rathrikal	Malayalam	East Coast Audios	Songs and Background Score
	Kuku Mathur Ki Jhand Ho Gayi	Hindi		Songs
	Pizza Remake	Hindi		1 song only.
2014	Antichrist	Malayalam		Songs and Background Score
2014	Disco	Malayalam

References

External links

Persondata
Name	Pillai, Prashant
Alternative names
Short description	Indian composer
Date of birth	September 8, 1981
Place of birth
Date of death
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