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Shantanu Moitra
SHANTANU MOITRA has composed the music in landmark films like Parineeta, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Hazaron Khwahishen Aisi and 3 Idiots. He was born in Lucknow but moved with his family to Delhi when he...view moreSHANTANU MOITRA has composed the music in landmark films like Parineeta, Lage Raho Munnabhai, Hazaron Khwahishen Aisi and 3 Idiots. He was born in Lucknow but moved with his family to Delhi when he was very young. His father is a sarod player and mother is an artist. Moitra grew up in an environment of creativity. Right from his childhood, Moitra was fascinated with folk music from around the world. After quitting client servicing in an ad agency, Moitra started composing jingles. 'Bole mere lips I love Uncle Chipps' was his first ad and he has scored for more than two thousand ads. In 2007, he won the Cannes Bronze Lion for scoring the Happydent ad. Moitra dons many hats: he is a keen trekker, avid photographer and an amateur astronomer. In 2005, he went to the Everest base camp. In 2006, he won the R.D. Burman Filmfare Award. He received the President's National Film Award in 2014 for best music direction. ARUNA CHAKRAVARTI is a well-known writer and translator. Prominent among her eleven published books are five translated works: Songs of Tagore, Srikanta, Those Days, First Light and The Way Home. Her creative writing includes a book of short stories, Secret Spaces, and two critically acclaimed novels: The Inheritors, which was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2004, and the recent best-selling Jorasanko. She has received several awards, including the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Sarat Puraskar.view less