Monty Sharma
Born (1970-04-17) 17 April 1970[1]
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
NationalityIndian
OccupationMusic director
Years active2002–present
Musical career

Monty Sharma (born 17 April 1970) is a music composer from India scoring music for Bollywood. He is popular for being the background music composer for Black (2005), Ram-Leela (2013) and music director for Saawariya (2007).[2] He is cousin of composer Mithoon and nephew of music composer Pyarelal Sharma of music composer duo Laxmikant–Pyarelal.

Early life

Monty Sharma was born on 17 April 1970 in Mumbai.[3] He started learning music at the age of five and had the opportunity to learn under the guidance of his grand father Pandit Ram Prasad Sharma. Monty is nephew of Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma of Laxmikant-Pyarelal fame. Monty started his career as a professional keyboard player with Laxmikant-Pyarelal for the film Mr. India at the age of sixteen. He worked with all the well known music directors such as Laxmikant Pyeralal, R.D. Burman, Rajesh Roshan, Nadeem Shravan, Jatin–Lalit, Ismail Darbar, Sanjeev Darshan for many bollywood films.

He was a member of judges' panel of the popular reality show STAR Voice of India 2.

Career

Background music composer

Music director

Awards

Won
Nominated
  • 2008 - Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for the film Saawariya
  • 2008 - Set Max Stardust Award for Music for the film Saawariya
  • 2014 - LifeOk Screen Awards for best background score for the film Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela
  • 2014 - Filmfare award for best background score for the film Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-leela

References

  1. ↑ "Monty Sharma - Singer, Music Director, Artist, Actor | MySwar". Archived from the original on 30 September 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Reshma Kelkar Dabholkar (28 February 2011). "Monty Sharma follows Vishal Bhardwaj". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 25 September 2012. Retrieved 21 February 2012.
  3. ↑ "Monty Sharma date of birth". adlabimagica.com. Adlabs. Retrieved 30 April 2014.
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