Ripon Nath

Ripon Nath is a Bangladeshi sound designer and recordist. His notable works include Monpura, Third Person Singular Number (2009), Television (2012), Aynabaji (2016), No Bed of Roses (2017), No Dorai (2019), Hawa (2022), Fagun Haway (2019) and Surongo (2023). Besides films, he has worked in nearly every sector of Bangladeshi visual media. In addition to sound design, he has contributed as a vocalist and composer for numerous advertisements, documentaries, and films.

He won Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Sound Recording five times. He also won Best Sound Design award at the SAARC Film Festival 2019 for the film Fagun Haway (2019).

Early life Ripon Nath grew up in Rajbari, Chittagong, and Dhaka. His father was a government official and his mother a homemaker. He was the sixth of seven siblings. After completing his school and college education, he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in management from National University. During his undergraduate studies, Ripon received initial training in sound design from the renowned sound engineer Ratan Pal.

Career Ripon began his career at Asiatic's Ddhoni Chitra, a renowned Bangladeshi advertising firm, where he worked for almost ten years. His career as a sound designer started with recording location sound for a documentary directed by Amitabh Reza Chowdhury.

Ripon Nath has been designing sound for nearly all the contemporary notable films in Bangladesh. Several feature-length and short films with Ripon's sound design have been showcased at prestigious film festivals, including Cannes, Rotterdam, Raindance, Filmfest München, Locarno, Cinequest, Silver Wave, Moscow, Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore and Busan. Amazon Prime, and Mubi.

Other careers Besides being a sound designer, Ripon Nath works as a voice artist for advertisements and documentaries. In addition, he has composed music for numerous advertisements and several films, including Monpura (2009), Swapnajaal (2018), and Hotel Albatross (2017).

Ripon has also acted in many telefilms and advertisements, including Ekti Phone Kora Jabe Please? (2008) directed by Amitabh Reza Chowdhury, Amader Golpo (2012) directed by Iftekhar Ahmed Fahmi, and Highway (2017) directed by R B Pritam. Additionally, he has been a part-time lecturer in the Film and Media Department at Jagannath University.

Selected filmography

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Film Result 2012 National Film Awards Best Sound Recording Chorabali 2016 National Film Awards Best Sound Recording Aynabaji 2017 National Film Awards Best Sound Recording Dhaka Attack 2019 SAARC Film Festival Best Sound Design Fagun Haway 2019 National Film Awards Best Sound Recording No Dorai 2022 National Film Awards Best Sound Recording Hawa