Amaal Mallik
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Mallik at the 61st Filmfare Awards 2016
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Mumbai, India |
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| Occupation(s) | Music Director, singer |
| Labels | T-Series |
Amaal Mallik is a music composer and playback singer in the Hindi film industry hailing from a musical family. He is the grandson of Sardar Malik; son of Daboo Malik and Jyothi Malik; brother of singer Armaan Malik and nephew of music composer Anu Malik. Mallik started learning music at the age of 8 and took a liking towards the piano. He debuted in 2014 with Salman Khan's Jai Ho, following it up with the song "Naina" from Khoobsurat.
Mallik studied in Jamnabai Narsee School and completed his graduation in Bachelor of Commerce from N. M. College in Mumbai. He studied piano and completed his course at Trinity College of Music (Western Classical, Jazz & Rock) under the guidance and training he received from teachers like Benny, Xavier Fernandes, Tony Pinto, Joy Bose.
He is also trained in Indian classical music informally under the tutelage of his grandfather Sri Sardar Malik.
Mallik began his career journey at a young age. After completing his 10th grade year, he immediately went on to assist music composer and background scorer Amar Mohile for the soundtrack of Sarkar (2005) and Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007) at the age of 15, later moving on to producing and arranging music for his father in films like Sohail Khan's Kisaan (2009) where he collaborated on a remix track of Mere Desh Ki Dharti with pop singer, Daler Mehndi.
In 2008-2011 Malik assisted music composer Pritam on several film albums, alongside producing background scores for Sandeep Chowta and Salim-Sulaiman for films like -
His first outing as a solo background scorer was for Khwaabb a sports film produced by PVR Pictures & Bullseye Entertainment, which won him good reviews.
Mallik has composed music for over 100 advertisement jingles with top notch directors like Prakash Verma, Kailash Surendranath, Prahlad Kakar, Vinod P Vijay, Jeet Surendranth, E.Niwas, Bodhayan Mukherjee (Little Lamb Films), Hemanth Bhandari (Chrome Pictures) for brands like Amul,Vodafone, Horlicks, Relaxo, Toyota, Cornetto, Indian Oil, Sunfeast, iBall, Makemytrip.com.
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