Sachin Gupta (born 12 August 1981) is an Indian music director, composer, guitarist, record producer and a singer. His work has spanned everything from playing live shows with his previous band Mrigya to composing

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albums for artists like

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, Jal,

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and

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among others. Termed by international media as "Flying Finger Melodies", his music, as he says, is inspired by real life instances, while his guitar playing has been heavily influenced by

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Biography

Sachin Gupta was born in a family of doctors and has studied science at school level. He was in

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School and spent a couple of years in Apeejay School in New Delhi. Having gotten through IIT-Delhi in Mechanical Engineering, Sachin decided to instead study physics (honours) and went to

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. But after a year, he moved to study B.Com (Hons) at Shahid Bhagat Singh College while pursuing music simultaneously. He was introduced to the guitar at the age of 7 by his mother and ever since, he took music as his calling in life. He has performed at over 600 concerts across various countries including

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, London, Singapore,

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and Australia that has included major

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such as the Jazz Fest, Edinburgh Fest and Scotland Fest. He met with the Vice-President of TIPS Films in London during one of his shows, and he moved to Mumbai in 2005.

Career

Indie pop

Sachin has made a variety of songs under various genres. His rock tones in his compositions for

's ''

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'' brought him fame in dismal

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scene. He has composed and produced tracks on Mika's album ''Dunali'', Ashok Masti's ''Clap on the Beat'' and Alisha Chinnoy's ''Shut Up N Kiss Me''. He also produced tracks for

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and UK based Khiza. Other names include Pakistani artists Jal, Adeel and

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Film career

Sachin ventured into Bollywood with the two promotional tracks called ''Yaad Aaye Woh Din'' and ''Farishta'' for the Jimmy Shergill-KK Menon starrer

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released in 2007. His first full-fledged film is

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that stars

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and

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. He was featured in ''

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'', a TIPS film with Kumar Taurani that has Viveik Oberoi in the lead. His second film was

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starrer

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. His music for the movie Jo Hum Chahein had lyrics by

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, his next film album is for

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youth film division

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production ''Mere Dad Ki Maruti'' where he teams up with lyricist

again.

Filmography

As A Music Director

As a Singer

References

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