Anand Raj Anand

Anand Raj Anand
Anand Raj Anand with Akon
Background information
Origin	Delhi, India
Genres	Film score
Occupation(s)	music director
Years active	1996 – present

Anand Raj Anand is an Award winning Indian music director, composer, lyricist and playback singer in the Hindi film industry.

Early life

Anand raj anand was born in Delhi to a family of jewellers.^[1] In 1972, he left his family business and came to Mumbai to pursue musical career.

Career

In 1995, his first private album came "Babu Tiptop" in Time music, which was a superb and hit in this album "jhanjharia aise chhanak gayi" later used in film Krishna by Time Audio (also known as Time Magnetics). He has started his work in 1996 when he wrote, composed and sang the songs for the film Masoom in 1996 where the song Chhota Bachcha Jaan Ke became an instant hit along with Kale Libaas Mein and Tukur Tukur Dekhte Ho Kya. The Hit parade continued with the success of the title track of Ghoonghat. Since then, he has been the music director and composer of over 90 films, the lyricist of over 40 soundtracks, and he did playback singing for over 45 films.

Some of his most famous work includes Masoom, Pardesi Babu, Had Kar Di Aapne, Jis Desh Mein Ganga Rahta Hai, Kaante, Musafir ,Welcome,Shoot out at lokhandwala ,Double dhammal ,Singh saab the great and recently released Shoot out at wadala. The Kaante album was a chartbuster of its time. Awarded and nominated in most of the prestigious awards.

His song DIL DE DIYA HAI from film MASTI is said to be one of the most romantic songs in the Indian film industry.

• • He has also made the Anthem for Common Wealth Games 2010 ...and performed in the opening ceremony.

Other Music Directors Ajay Atul, Himesh Reshammiya and Pritam has also used Anand Raj Anand Voice.

Anand Raj Anand has worked with many lyricsist like Anand Bakshi, Sameer, Dev Kohli, Maya Govind. like Singers Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, Abhijeet, Sonu Nigam, Suresh Wadkar, Vinod Rathod, Anuradha Paudwal, Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Sunidhi Chauhan, Jaspinder Narula, Himesh Reshammiya, Shreya Ghoshal and Richa Sharma.

Apart from giving hit music in films, he has composed for some of the biggest Private Indian Private Pop Album. Some of them are –

• Suno To Deewana Dil (Kamaal Khan)
• Ab Ke Baras (Sunita Rao)
• Mehandi (Vibha Sharma)
• Chorni (Hans raj hans)

ANAND RAJ ANAND recent movies

• Welcome
• Double dhammal
• Grand masti
• Shoot out at wadala
• Singh saab the great

List of item songs by Anand Raj Anand

• Jalebi bai -double dhammal
• lailla -Shoot out at wadala(top the item song list in 2013)

Filmography

References

External links

• Anand Raj Anand at the Internet Movie Database
• Singer files case against Anand Raaj Anand
• Lion of Punjab Film/Music Release Date