Sanjoy Chowdhury is an Indian

film score A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...

composer. He debuted in 1998, by composing the background score of the

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John Matthew Matthan John Mathew Matthan (also John Mathew Mathan/John Mathew) is an Indian filmmaker from the southern state of Kerala. He is known for his 1999 Bollywood film '' Sarfarosh'', starring Aamir Khan and Naseeruddin Shah Film career John started h ...

roped him in to compose the background score of his

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Sarfarosh ''Sarfarosh'' () is a 1999 Indian action drama film written, produced and directed by John Matthew Matthan and starring Aamir Khan, Naseeruddin Shah, Sonali Bendre and Mukesh Rishi. John started working on ''Sarfarosh'' in 1992. Seven years ...

''. He has specialized as a background music composer and has composed the background score in many films. He is the son of Indian film composer,

Salil Chowdhury Salil Chowdhury (19 November 1925 – 5 September 1995) was an Indian music director, songwriter, lyricist, writer and poet who predominantly composed for Bengali, Hindi and Malayalam films. He composed music for films in 13 languages. This i ...

Filmography

Background Score Composer

Awards and nominations

References

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