Kaushal Inamdar

Kaushal S. Inamdar
Background information
Born 2 October 1971
in Pune, Maharashtra, India
Genres Soundtracks
Natyageet
Classical music
Jingles
Occupation(s) Music composer, singer
Years active 1996–present
Website Official Website

Kaushal S. Inamdar (born 2 October 1971 in Pune, Maharashtra) is an Indian singer and music composer in Marathi and Hindi movies. His work in music spans from composing music for films, television, drama to events, concerts in Hindi and Marathi, composing music for ballets, advertisements, and also albums. He is currently settled at Goregaon, a Mumbai suburb.

Early life

Kaushal did his schooling from IES Modern English School, Dadar and Billimoria High School, Panchgani. Thereafter he graduated from the D. G. Ruparel College, Mumbai, where he came in contact with Chetan Datar who initiated him into theatre. While in school, he had taken some primary lessons from Kamalakar Bhagwat, a renowned music composer himself, but he began learning the finer nuances of music composition only after he finished graduation concentrated on writing and music. He did writing apprentice under Lekh Tandon and also had a short stint as a writer in television soaps. As he found himself more of a natural musician, he settled with music as his creative career. His Guru, Pt. Satyasheel Deshpande, an eminent Hindustani vocalist and musicologist is known for his insightful study of North Indian Classical music.[1]

Musical associations

Kaushal has worked with a lot of talented artists—singers and musicians. Some of them include — Shankar Mahadevan, Pt. Satyasheel Deshpande, Sadhana Sargam, Suresh Wadkar, Shreya Ghoshal, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Raghunandan Panshikar, Shubha Joshi, Ninad Kamath, Sanjeev Chimmalgi, Hamsika Iyer, Swanand Kirkire, Ravindra Sathe, Shilpa Pai, Sonali Karnik, Shobha Joshi, Karsan Sagathia, Kirti Sagathia, Sanjeevani Bhelande, and many others.

Kaushal has been one of the mentors for the program Idea Saregamapa on Zee Marathi.

Personal life

Kaushal is married to Suchitra Inamdar. She has a M.A. degree in psychology and now works as a school counsellor in Tridha, a Rudolf Steiner school. Kaushal and Suchitra have a son, Anuraag.

Works

Feature films

(Songs won the best playback award male/female at the Maharashtra State Awards 2003)

(This Marathi movie has made it to many international film festivals, and also won the National Award in 2004)

Discography

Singers – Pt. Satyasheel Deshpande, Sadhana Sargam, Ranjana Jogalekar, etc.

Singers – Shankar Mahadevan, Mahalaxmi Iyer, Sameer Date, etc.

Artsite – Shri Vidyadhar Gokhale.

Rendered by famous classical vocalist, Shri Raghunandan Panshikar

References

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