Arjuna Harjai

Arjuna Harjai
Arjuna Harjai working on his next film @ Nysa Studio
Background information
Born	(1989-02-28) 28 February 1989 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Genres	Soundtrack, film score
Occupation(s)	Composer, record producer, singer, instrumentalist
Years active	2009–present

Arjuna Harjai is a popular Indian film composer, Musician and singer, working in Bollywood, known for his chartbuster songs " O Soniye " & " Kyu hua "sung by Arijit Singh & Neeti Mohan for the film Titoo MBA.^[1] After working as a jingle composer, he debuted as a film scorer in the 2011,^[2] and debuted as a composer with Priyanshu Chatterjee starer Calapor^[3] for which he composed four original songs and background score (2013),^[4] He is the son of Delhi's Top grade singer Lakshmi Madhusudan and composer Madhusudan Harjai.

Early life

He started learning classical music at a very young age under the guidance of his parents mainly influenced by Ghazal style. At the age of 11 he started learning piano and studied till the Grade 8th of Trinity College, later he also studied jazz and counterpoint composition with various teachers. In 2006 he came to Mumbai and studied Indian classical music from renowned singer Suresh Wadkar and also finished his audio engineering in 2008 from SAE Institute in Mumbai.

Career

Popularly known for composing and singing advertising jingles for brands such as Cadbury Bournville, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Lenovo, Big Bazaar, Aquagaurd, Samsung, Maruti, Sprite, MTNL, Lovely Professional University, Ayur, Manhunt, Hillman, Marvel Tea, Lovely Sweets and many more, arjuna also continued working as a Music Producer for popular music composer Lalit Pandit for over a year on various projects including Besharam and eventually went on to compose for films as an Independent Composer in 2013.

Film music eventually came his way, when the producer of hit Punjabi films Rajan Batra approached him for his upcoming Bollywood film project Titoo MBA directed by Amit Vats, he was in search of a new composer with a distinct vision for his film. Although it was scheduled to be his debut, Titoo MBA^[5] ran into production delays and in the mean while Arjuna's second film Calapor was released.^[6][7]

Filmography

Songs

Jingles and Advertisements

References

External links

• Arjuna Harjai at the Internet Movie Database
• Radio and Music
• official website
• World Wide Records
• NACO Aids Campaign
• Times Of India
• Bollywood Hungama
• Glaman
• Screen Magazine
• Recording with Sunidhi Chauhan