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Jigar, Sachin in the success party of Teree Sang
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Also known as | Sachin Sanghvi and Jigar Saraiya |
Origin | Gujarat, India |
Genres | Film Soundtrack, Electronic, Pop, Rock, Hip Hop, Jazz |
Occupation(s) | Music director, singer, record producer, arranger, composer, entrepreneur |
Instruments | Vocals, Guitars, Piano, Keyboard, Bass guitar, Stomp, Percussions, Drums, Vibraphone, Flute, Electronic music Clarinet, Oboe, English Horn, Ukulele, Backpacker, Tumbi, Whistle, Techno, Bossa, String instrument, Shehnai, Harmonium, Dhol, Melodica, Mandolin, Charango, Rebab, Koto |
Years active | 2009–present |
Labels | Tips Industries Limited, Sony Music, Eros International, |
Associated acts | Sachin–Jigar, Udit Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Atif Aslam |
Sachin–Jigar is a music composer duo (Sachin Sanghvi and Jigar Saraiya), from Mumbai, India who compose for Bollywood and Gujarati movies. They have scored a number of successful soundtracks. Before working independently as music director duo, they were assisting Pritam in set up musical arrangements.
Sachin was born on 14 June 1980 and Jigar was born on 12 April 1985.They were interested in music from childhood. Music was one of their passions but just like other children, studies and academic career overpowered it but with time they realized their love for music and followed the field judiciously.
Sachin–Jigar have created music at various platforms from theatre to television soaps to jingles. They must have done not less the 500 plays and not less than 5000 television episodes for various genres and channels. Jigar Saraiya was assisting Music Director Rajesh Roshan where he met Amit Trivedi. Then Amit introduced Sachin Sanghvi to Jigar. Later year they joined their hands and started assisting Pritam in set up musical arrangements.
They then programmed and arranged for almost all music directors in Bollywood from the legend A.R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Nadeem-Shravan, Sandesh Shandilya, Pritam, Vishal-Shekhar etc., before they stepped in to be independent composers.
In 2009, they composed one song for the movie Life Partner. Then in 2011, their first assignment as an independent music director duo was for the film F.A.L.T.U which included the hit song "Le Ja Tu Mujhe" & "Char Baj Gaye (Party Abhi Baaki Hai)". In 2011, they scored for the movie Hum Tum Shabana & Shor in the City. In this movie, Saibo sung by Shreya Ghoshal and Tochi Raina, was specially appreciated by critics as well as masses and Karma Is A Bitch become huge hit.