Rajat Dholakia
| Rajat Dholakia (juku) | |
|---|---|
| Born | Rajkot (Gujarat India) |
| Origin | Junagadh,SaurashtraIndia |
| Genres | Film score[Sound Designing] |
| Occupation(s) | music director |
Rajat Dholakia is an Indian music composer.[1] known for his work on Firaaq (2008), Mirch Masala (1987) and Holi (1985).
Early life
Rajat Dholakia is BSc (Chemistry –Physics) graduated student from Mithibai College of Arts and Science(Mumbai), in 1977-78. In childhood he learned the Basics of Music from his father, Shri Dilip Dholakia (noted Composer-Singer from Hindi and Gujarati Films, who mastered Classical music in Bhendibazaar gharana from his guru Ustad Amaanali Khaan Saaheb) Rajat's main Goal was Music and Film based Technical career, from 1973 he started learning Western music, Staff notation and arrangement of music from The great Western Classical Teacher Pandit Ramprasad Sharma...(Father of famous composer Pyarelal Sharma, of the legendary Laxmikant-Pyarelal duo). To know the further technicalities of Music, he started learning Classical Guitar From his French Friend Mark Salaun(classical and Flemingo guitar master). Then learned arranging film musical score for Songs and Background Music from the great film Arranger Shayamrao Kamble.
Career
From 1975 he Started giving music in Theatrical amateur and commercial plays of Hindi, Gujarati and English....... After meeting his theatre lover friends Paresh Mehta, Renu Saluja, Kundan Shah, Saeed Mirza, Niranjan Thade he was introduced to FTII by them(1979–80) .... And started giving experimental background music and sounds for the Diploma Films for FTII students ........ where he started doing workshop for Folly effects and ambient sounds for their films....... He started editing sound tracks for film documentaries while working with five time national award winner editor Renu Saluja and Sound engineer Padmanabhan (paddy)........ and that is how Rajat Dholakia’s technical career started as Sound Designer and started working as a music director, background score director and as a sound designer with very specialize film directors as below
Arun Khopker (Figures of Thoughts, Colours of Absence, Sanchari)
Viddhu Vinod Chopra(for Parinda and 1942),
Mani Kaul(Before My Eyes and Siddheshwari[2])
Ketan Mehta (Holi)[3] Maya Memsaab[4]
After his career of participating mostly in art film in he again reintroduced by his Friend Kiran Devhans to the Advertising world and then Rajat Dholakia has contributed in the commercial media to provide music for more than 5000 adfilms and public services films for example the music for UIDAI ID project's official theme song, Yehi hai Meri Pehchaan.[5]
Filmography
- Holi (film by Ketan Mehta)
- Kafila (film by Sudhanshu Huku)
- Om-Dar-Ba-Dar (film by Kamal Swaroop)
- Yeh Woh Manzil To Nahin (1987, film by Sudhir Mishra)
- Mirch Masala (1987, film by Ketan Mehta)
- Tarpan (1994, film by Vikramsingh)
- Dharavi (film by Sudhir Mishra)
- Sunday (film by Pankaj Advani)
- Tunnu ki Teena (film by Paresh Kaamdar)
- Kahaan Ho Tum (film by Vijay Kumar)
- Maharathi (film by Shivam Nayar)
- Firaque (film by Nandita Das)
- The Good Road (film by Gyan Korea)
- Saptapdii (film by Niranjan Thade)
Background score and sound design
- Brocades of Varanasi (documentary by Paresh Mehta)
- Rabaries of Kutchh (documentary by Paresh Mehta)
- BaanSagar (documentary by Rajendra Jaangle)
- Delinquents (documentary by VijayKumar)
- Mujse Dosti karoge (film by Gopi Desai)
- Figures of Thoughts (short film by Arun Khopkar)
- Colors of Absence (short film by Arun Khopkar)
- TotaNama (animated film by Chandita Mukherjee)
- Before My Eyes (film by ManiKaul)
- Musician Of Gujarat (documentary by Paresh Mehta)
- Sanchaari (documentary by Arun Khopker)
- Siddheshwari (film by Manikaul)
- Maya Memsaab (background music)
- Parinda (associate in background score and sound design, film by Vinod Chopra)
- 1942 Love Story (associate in background score and sound design, film by Vinod Chopra)
- Is raat ki Subah Nahi (background score, film by Sudhir Mishra)
- Phir Kabhi (background score, film by VKPrakash)
- Delhi 6 (3 songs, film by Rakesh Mehra along with A.R. Rehman)
References
- ↑ http://www.screenindia.com/old/fullstory.php?content_id=18175[]
- ↑ "Siddeshwari - Mani Kaul". YouTube. 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2013-07-10.
- ↑ Canby, Vincent (1985-04-08). "Movie Review - Holi - 'HOLI,' ABOUT A HIGH SCHOOL IN INDIA - NYTimes.com". Movies.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
- ↑ "Maya Memsaab - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". En.wikipedia.org. 1993-07-02. Retrieved 2013-07-10.
- ↑ "To give every Indian a number, Team Nilekani has own number". Indian Express. 2010-09-13. Retrieved 2012-03-06.
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