Anwar Sardar "Anu" Malik (born 2 November 1960) is an Indian music composer, singer, music arranger and score composer. He is the recipient of a
National Film Award
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and three
Filmfare Awards
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, who primarily composes music for the Hindi film industry. He is the son of Sardar Malik.
As a music director, he has composed music for various genres of films, and has created several commercially successful songs for the Hindi (
Bollywood
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) film music industry. Malik is also known for the use of the
tabla
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in some of his songs, including "Taal Pe Jab" and "Mere Humsafar" from the film ''
Refugee
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Nicole Kidman
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.
Malik was a judge on ''Indian Idol'' from its first season in 2004 until 2018 when he left after "Me Too" allegation. He returned as a judge for the show's 11th season in 2019, but left after three weeks, and he was one of the judges for part of the 12th season. He also was a judge for the children's reality singing show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2022.
Career
1975–1984: Early years
Malik began his career as a music director in 1975 for comedian-turned-filmmaker Mohan Choti's film ''Hunterwali 77'' (1977) with the stage name Annu Malik. Malik's father Sardar Malik composed songs for the film, with Anu composing only one song "Zulm O Sitam Par Itrane Wale" for the film, sung by
Asha Bhosle
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. The soundtrack went unnoticed but it marked the beginning of his lengthy association with Bhosle. He would then get his first full soundtrack for
Harmesh Malhotra
Harmesh Malhotra (14 June 1936 – 22 November 2005) was an Indian film director, Film producer, producer, and screenplay writer.
Family
He was married to Manju Malhotra.
His daughter Payal Malhotra has acted in films.Shailendra Singh, whom Malik befriended after listening to the music of '' Bobby''. The film failed at the box office but some songs were noticed, namely "Main Hoon Haseena", "Mohabbat Rang Laye Gi" and "Aa Zara Mere Humnasheen", featuring his rare collaborations with singer Mohammad Rafi, who died within days after recording the songs.
Malik continued his collaborations with Harmesh Malhotra with films '' Aapas Ki Baat'' (1981) and '' Mangal Pandey'' (1982). He also composed music for other films like ''Paagal Premee'' (1982) and ''Ek Jaan Hai Hum'' (1983) but the films were box office failures. A few songs of the latter film "Dil Lagana Tum Kya Jano", "Aasmaan Pe Likh Doon" and "Yaad Teri Aayegi" received some recognition. In 1983, Malik sang his first song as a playback singer "Beete Huay Lamhe" for ''Nigahen'' (1983), with music composed by his father Sardar Malik.
Anu Malik gained his first exposure in 1984 with '' Aasmaan'', which featured catchy tracks such as "Banke Nazar Dil Ki Zubaan" rendered by
Kishore Kumar
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and "Time Bomb" rendered by Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar, which received critical acclaim. His next soundtrack for the film '' Sohni Mahiwal'' released later that year was a huge success and earned him his first nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director. Malik began getting more recognition and more work after his success in 1984 as he got more soundtracks throughout the mid-1980s but was unable to find a footing in Bollywood due to the rule of Bappi Lahiri, R.D. Burman, Kalyanji-Anandji and Laxmikant-Pyarelal at the time.
1985–1992: ''Mard'' and initial breakthrough
During his struggle phase, Malik composed his first Indipop album ''Jadoo'' (1985) featuring the vocals of playback singer
Alisha Chinai
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as her first private album. Later that year, Malik got his first mainstream breakthrough with Manmohan Desai's film '' Mard'', which got Malik noticed in Bollywood for the first time. Malik introduced playback singer Mohammad Aziz in ''Mard'' and Aziz frequently collaborated with Malik in his various soundtracks. As a result, Malik received more offers to compose songs for films. During this phase, his song "Apno Me Mai Begana" from '' Begaana'' became a hit and gained a cult following. In 1987, Malik began full-time playback singing while recording a song "Julie Julie" for '' Jeete Hain Shaan Se'' when Kishore Kumar did not show up for recording the song. Kumar's son
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was then called for the song but he did not arrive as well and then the film's lead actor
Mithun Chakraborty
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recommended Malik to sing the song. He recorded two more songs for the soundtrack, "Salaam Seth Salaam Seth" and "Rab Roothe Roothe". This soundtrack also marked the first time that he collaborated with
Kumar Sanu
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to record a version of "Julie Julie" with Kavita Krishnamurthy which was not included in the film. However, it would lead to several collaborations with Sanu in the future. "Julie Julie" became a huge hit and the film emerged as a major success at the box office.
He had many soundtracks throughout the following years without much success. He earned acclaim for his music in '' Awaargi'' (1990) which featured the famous ghazal "Chamakte Chand Ko Toota Hua" sung by Ghulam Ali. Malik originally composed music in the same style as other music composers during the 1970s and 1980s.
However, in 1990, Malik began changing his music style on the recommendation of Anuradha Paudwal which would become his trademark style. Early songs in that trademark style included "Maa Hi Mandir" by Mohammad Aziz and the hit song "Aaine Ke Sau Tukde" by Kumar Sanu from '' Maa'' (1991), "Hum Nahin To Tum Nahin" and "Teri Zulfein Shaam Si Roshan" from '' Ramgarh Ke Sholay'' (1991), "Jaanam Jaanam Jaanam" from '' Virodhi'' (1992) and "Choone Se Tere" from ''Dil Ne Ikraar Kiya'' (1992). Other hit songs during that period included "Dil Diwane Ka Dola Dildaar Ke Liye" from '' Tahalka'' (1992) and "Is Pyar Se Meri Taraf Na Dekho" from '' Chamatkar'' (1992). It was during this era that he also modified his name to Anu Malik.
1993–2004: ''Baazigar'' and continued success in Bollywood music
The year 1993 marked a turning point in Malik's career as it was the most successful year of his career at that time. His first release that year was '' Phool Aur Angaar'' which was a huge success. Malik received his first taste of success with
Mahesh Bhatt
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's television film '' Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee'' which featured superhit songs including "Badalon Mein Chup Raha Hai", "Dil Mein Sanam Ki Soorat" and "Tere Dar Par Sanam Chale Aaye". The success of the film was followed by Bhatt's directorial '' Sir'' which had hit songs such as "Sun Sun Barsaat Ki Dhun" and "Yeh Ujli Chandni". His final release of that year was '' Baazigar'' which was a huge success with the songs "Baazigar O Baazigar", "Kitabein Bahut Si", "Chhupana Bhi Nahi Aata", "Aye Mere Humsafar" and most notably "Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhein", for which Malik rapped a few lines. It sold 10million units and became the year's best selling soundtrack for Bollywood. It catapulted Malik into stardom and established him as one of the top music directors of Bollywood alongside Nadeem-Shravan and Jatin–Lalit. Malik won his first Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for ''Baazigar'' at the 39th Filmfare Awards in 1994.
In fact, Malik was the number one music director of Bollywood during 1994 after the release of ''Baazigar''. His popular and successful soundtracks during the year included '' Khuddar'', '' Imtihaan'', '' Aa Gale Lag Jaa'', '' Vijaypath'' and '' Main Khiladi Tu Anari''. His success continued with subsequent films '' Naajayaz'' (1995), '' The Gambler'' (1995), '' Akele Hum Akele Tum'' (1995), '' Chaahat'' (1996), '' Diljale'' (1996), '' Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi'' (1996), '' Daraar'' (1996), ''
Krishna
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'' (1999), '' Haseena Maan Jaayegi'' (1999) and '' Baadshah'' (1999). He received further nominations for the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for ''Main Khiladi Tu Anari'', ''Akele Hum Akele Tum'', ''Border'', ''Soldier'', ''Biwi No.1'' and ''Haseena Maan Jaayegi'' during the decade. Meanwhile, his songs in
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's '' The Gentleman'' where criticized for being lifted from A. R. Rahman's compositions for the original Tamil film, to which Malik responded saying "I am an inspired music director. I would never lift the whole thing".
Aside from composing, Malik lent his voice for his compositions on various occasions such as "Maari Gayi" from '' Jaanam'' (1992), "My Adorable Darling" and the rapping portion of "Main Khiladi Tu Anari" from ''Main Khiladi Tu Anari'' (1994) and "Oonchi Hai Building" and "East or West" from ''Judwaa'' (1997). He also released several albums in the Indipop genre which he sang by himself including ''Tera Chehra'' (1995), English album ''Eyes'' (1997), ''Lafda Na Ho Jaye'' (1997) and ''Ho Raha Hai Sama'' (1999).
Malik had major success in the year 2000 with best-selling soundtracks including '' Hera Pheri'', '' Badal'', '' Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega'', '' Aaghaaz'', ''
Fiza
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Refugee
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''. His soundtrack for ''Refugee'' was critically acclaimed as he became the only music director to win the Filmfare Special Award for his compositions in the movie at the
46th Filmfare Awards
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''Mohabbatein'' led the ceremony with 12 nominations, followed by ''Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai'' with 11 nominations.
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Asoka
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'', '' Lajja'', '' Ajnabee'' and '' Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai''. His soundtrack for ''Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai'' earned him his twelfth nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director and his soundtrack for ''Asoka'' earned him a nomination for the Screen Award for Best Music Director. His soundtracks during the year 2002 went unnoticed but he had a resurgence in 2003 with best-selling albums '' Ishq Vishk'', '' Main Prem Ki Diwani Hoon'', '' Khushi'', '' Munnabhai MBBS'' and '' Inteha'' and '' LOC: Kargil''. He received critical acclaim for ''LOC: Kargil'', which earned him his thirteenth nomination for the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director and won him his first Screen Award for Best Music Direction.
Malik found success with successful best-selling soundtracks such as '' Main Hoon Na'', ''
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'' and '' Fida'' in 2004. His soundtrack for ''Main Hoon Na'' earned critical acclaim and won Malik his second Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, his second Screen Award for Best Music Director and his first Zee Cine Award for Best Music Director.
2005–present: Later career
The mid-2000s marked the rise of a new generation of music directors including A. R. Rahman, Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy, Vishal–Shekhar, Pritam Chakraborty and the amount of Malik's work began reducing after 2005 and he accepted his new role as a regular judge on the reality singing competition show '' Indian Idol'' on
Sony Entertainment Television
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, beginning with its first season in 2004. He received a nomination for the Screen Award for Best Music Director for '' Jaan-E-Mann'' (2006). The year 2007 marked for the first time since 1983 that Malik composed soundtrack for only one film '' Undertrial''.
Malik remained prominent as a judge for various reality television shows but lost major offers as a music director in the coming years. His recent work includes '' Kambakkht Ishq'' (2009), '' Yamla Pagla Deewana'' (2011), '' Shootout at Wadala'' (2013), '' Dum Laga Ke Haisha'' (2015), '' Begum Jaan'' (2017) and '' Sui Dhaaga'' (2018). He won his second Zee Cine Award for Best Music Director for ''Dum Laga Ke Haisha'', which marked his reunion with Kumar Sanu since '' No Entry'' (2005) as well as his first collaboration with Yash Raj Films.
Collaborations
Malik has worked with many Indian playback singers including
Mohammed Rafi
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,
Kishore Kumar
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Amit Kumar
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Manhar Udhas
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Alisha Chinai
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to compose the commercially successful singles "Sexy Sexy" and "Ruk Ruk Ruk" from '' Vijaypath'', "Chot Dil Pe Lagi" from '' Ishq Vishk'' and the songs from '' Love Story 2050''. He also worked with Indian film lyricist
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Kumar Sanu
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,
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'', '' Aarzoo'', '' Ishq Vishk'' and '' Fida''. Sanu and Yagnik were regular singers for Anu Malik and Malik created many songs individually with Sanu such as "Aaine Ke Sau Tukde" from ''Maa'' (1991) and the single "Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhen" from ''Baazigar'' (1993).
Following the death of music director R. D. Burman, Malik has completed music for Burman's unfinished film projects '' 1942: A Love Story'', ''
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Malik has been one of the judges on the TV show ''Indian Idol'' since the show's inception in 2004 until the format of the show changed into '' Indian Idol Junior'' in 2013. When ''Indian Idol'' returned in 2016 for its 9th season, Malik was again one of the judges, remaining until October 2018 when he left the show following allegations of
sexual harassment
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. Malik returned as a judge in 2019 for the 11th season, but left the show again after three weeks. In the show's 12th season in 2021, Malik appeared as a guest in one episode, and later acted as a replacement judge when the regular judges had to isolate due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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Although he is not a mainstream singer, Malik does playback singing. Written off as a singer in his early days ("Julie Julie," for instance), he continues to sing his own compositions, with songs such as "Aaila Re" from the movie '' Jung'', "Jaanam Samjha Karo" from Jaanam Samjha Karo, "Ek Garam Chaye ki Pyali" from the movie '' Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega'', "Gori Gori" in '' Main Hoon Na'' or the recent "Meri Jane Jigar" in '' Deewane Huye Paagal''. Among his works are "Oonchi Hai Building" and "East or West India is the best" from the movie '' Judwaa''. and the rap part of "Yeh Kaali Kaali Aankhen" of '' Baazigar'' and "Main Khiladi Tu Anari" of " Main Khiladi Tu Anari".
While he sings entire songs for some movies, especially those starring Sunil Shetty, Paresh Rawal,
Akshay Kumar
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and Shahid Kapoor (in '' Deewane Huye Paagal'' he sang almost every song), and has also sung as part of a chorus in "Mehbooba Mehbooba" in the film '' Ajnabee'', and "Tumse Milke Dilka Jo Haal" for '' Main Hoon Na''.
Early life and personal life
Anu Malik was born to Indian Hindi film music director and score composer Sardar Malik. His brother Daboo Malik is also a music composer.
Malik is married to Anjali Vasudev Bhat and has two daughters Anmol Malik and Ada Malik.
Controversies
Plagiarism
Malik has faced criticism for using music written by other composers, for instance in the film '' The Gentleman'' where the music of several songs credited to Malik was written by A. R. Rahman, and "Mera Piya Ghar Aaya" in '' Yaarana'' which was allegedly identical to a song by the same name written by Pakistani
Qawwali
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musician
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
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(1948–1997). Khan was reportedly tolerant towards Bollywood music directors plagiarising his songs, but disapproved strongly of Malik's using the music of a song which originally had a religious theme as a secular love song. According to Khan, Malik had repeatedly said to him that he loved his music and was actually showing admiration by using his tunes, and in an interview for IANS Malik dismissed all plagiarism allegations, saying that "no one in this world is original" and claiming that all similarities are due to there being "just seven notes in music".
Sexual harassment
In October 2018, in the wake of the MeToo movement in India, Malik was accused of sexual harassment by several women in separate claims. One accusation came from singer Shweta Pandit, who said he had made an unwanted sexual pass at her when she was 15 years old. Lyricist Sameer came out in Malik's support, refuting Shweta Pandit, saying that he was present during the audition where the harassment of Pandit was claimed to have happened. Sona Mohapatra and Neha Bhasin also accused Malik of predatory behaviour, while female singer Hema Sardesai came out in Malik's support. Malik denied the allegations, but the public backlash resulted in him leaving as a judge for season 10 of ''Indian Idol''.
Alisha Chinai
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, who had sued Malik for molestation in the 1990s, supported the allegations. Sonu Nigam came out in support of Malik, claiming that he had not seen any proof that the allegations were true. In 2019, Malik was reinstated as a judge on Season 11 of ''Indian Idol'', but later Malik stepped down, claiming that he had decided to take a break as he was unable to focus on his work on the show. On 17 January 2020, the National Commission for Women closed the sexual harassment case on Anu Malik due to lack of substantial evidence, but clarifying that it could be reopened if evidence is provided. Sona Mohapatra criticised the commission's decision.
Awards and nominations
Malik was awarded a Silver Lotus for J.P. Dutta's ''
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* 2005 – Winner, Popular Award – Best Music Director for ''Main Hoon Na'' (2004)
* 2010 – Winner, Asha Bhosle Award – Outstanding Contribution in Music
* 2010 – Winner, Indian Telly Awards – Best reality show judge
* 2014 – Winner, Giants International Awards – Lifetime Achievement in Music
* 2015 – Winner, Big Star Entertainment Awards – 92.7 BIG FM – Suhana Safar Music Award