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Debojyoti Mishra

Debojyoti Mishra
Native name দেবজ্যোতি মিশ্র
Born Calcutta, India
Genres Film score, Music, Bengali Music, Indian Music, World Music
Occupation(s) Composer, Painter, Lyricist, Poet
Instruments Violin, Piano, Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Sarod
Years active 1998-present
Website www.debojyotimishra.com

Debojyoti Mishra born 1960 in Calcutta, is an Indian film composer. He became popular with his minimalist classical compositions for the Hindi film Raincoat, directed by Rituparno Ghosh. His work on film like Chokher Bali, Bariwali, Arekti premer golpo, Memories in March was acclaimed. He also worked on Bengali film, Chaturanga and Sesher Kobita, directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. The songs he composed for the Bengali movie Autograph starring Prasenjit Chatterjee, Nandana Sen and Indraneil Sengupta, gained immense popularity. All the songs of this film created a new vibration in bengali film music. His composition for Titli was immensely praised as well which includes the famous song "Megh Pioner Bager Vitor" sung by Srikanto. He has also composed music for the Malayalam film Calcutta News, which was set in Kolkata.

The musician has expressed his talent through painting also. He is self-taught artist and exhibited his first solo show in December 2012 in ICCR Kolkata by one of youngest art curator of India, Jyotirmoy Bhttacharya. The composer was inspired to turn as a painter by none other than the eminent Indian painter Jogen Chowdhury. The show was very successful and his excellence of color contrast, idea of composition and musical touch to the canvas was highly appreciated by master artists of India as well as art critics and media. Debojyoti Mishra's well desired first solo violin album “Tagore on Strings” was launched in 2015.


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