Tanishk Bagchi (Biography) - Music Producer | Songwriter | Lyricist

Tanishk Bagchi’s Biography :

Indian music producer, songwriter, performer, and lyricist Tanishk Bagchi is well known for his cover versions of Bollywood songs.
Nandakumar Bagchi and Sharmistha Dash, two musicians from Kolkata, West Bengal, gave birth to Tanishk Bagchi. He went to Scottish Church College and Frank Anthony Public School.

Bagchi collaborated with Aditya Dev as a music producer on the song Meherbani for the 2014 movie The Shaukeens, which was written and performed by Arko Pravo Mukherjee. For the song Oopar Oopar Renn De, Bagchi worked with writer Vayu Srivastava. It was well received by Anurag Kashyap, who introduced the two to Ravi Adhikari, a close relative of Tanu Weds Manu Returns director Aanand L. Rai.

The song Banno served as the duo’s Bollywood debut. He created and orchestrated the music for TV programmes like Thapki…Pyar Ki before beginning to write for movies. In the song Samandar from Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon, Bagchi made his solo compositional debut.
Although originally unpopular, Bagchi’s first remake song, Humma Humma, from the 2017 movie Ok Jaanu, has since amassed over 200 million YouTube views.

More traditional songs like Tamma Tamma, Mere Rashke Qamar, Cheez Badi, etc. were remade by him in the same year. After that, he got the 2018 IIFA Award for Best Music Director for the movie Badrinath Ki Dulhania and the Zee Cine Award for Song of the Year for his song Baarish from Half Girlfriend. Kanha, a song by Tanishk-Vayu, received several nominations, and its vocalist Shashaa Tirupati also took home a prize for it.

Together with DJ Chetas-Lijo George and JAM8, Bagchi composed the soundtrack CD for the 2018 movie Loveyatri. Aankh Maarey for Simmba, which became the party anthem of 2018–19 New Year’s celebrations, and Dilbar from the movie Satyamev Jayate, which gained 20 million views on YouTube in its first 24 hours of release, were two other songs he remade that year. In 2021, Aankh Maarey surpassed 1 billion views. Sanu Ek Pal Chain, Gali Gali, Naam Hai Mera, and more songs are among the rest. He also worked with Himesh Reshammiya to recreate the famous song Aashiq Banaya Apne for Hate Story 4 with the addition of Neha Kakkar’s voice. Along with one of Simmba’s two themes, he also wrote the soundtrack album.

At the 65th Filmfare Awards in 2019, Bagchi’s song Ve Maahi from the movie Kesari received a nomination for best lyricist. The most popular Hindi song on YouTube in 2019 was his single Vaaste, performed by Dhvani Bhanushali and Nikhil D’Souza. In 2020, the song received 1 billion views. Additionally, he wrote the song Makhna for the Netflix programme Drive. He made his Tamil debut the same year with the song Kadhal Psycho in Saaho (Tamil). He wrote the song in Hindi, Malayalam, and Telugu as well. For the Good Newwz theme tune, he worked with Kshmr. He wrote 4 of the other 7 songs on the same album.

The Holi song Mere Angne Mein and the Pepsi anthem Swag Se Solo were both written by Tanishk-Vayu in 2020.

Tanishk Bagchi’s second single was made available through the album of the Netflix movie Sardar Ka Grandson in May 2021. The song “Dil Nahi Todna” from the same album, which he also wrote, served as his playback debut.