Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma is an Indian film composer, most famously known for being the music director of the film The Kashmir Files , directed by Vivek Agnihotri. His film composing career began during the early 2010s when he composed the song 'Naham Janami' which was featured in the critically acclaimed film Ship Of Theseus by director Anand Gandhi. Since then, he has composed music for films such as Buddha in a Traffic Jam, Anaarkali of Aarah among others.

Early life Rohit Sharma was born in New Delhi, India and holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Delhi College Of Engineering in 1996. Since childhood, he had a natural passion and talent for music and taught himself to play the Indian classical flute. Also a gifted singer, he excelled in music & singing competitions all through school and college, bagging multiple awards as a result. At the age of 17, he sought formal education from Pt. Harshwardhan for Classical Flute. Simultaneously, he trained himself in Western Classical Piano from the Delhi School of Music. In the year 2000, he quit his job to become a professional music composer in Mumbai, India.

Career His music career began with composing a number of jingles and music for TVCs, with agencies such as Ogilvy and Mather, Rediffusion Y&R, JWT, Mudra Communications and production companies namely Percept Pictures, Situations, Kiss Films, Ishana Movies and more. In 2009, he kickstarted his film composing career by composing and arranging the song 'Naham Janami' for the feature film Ship of Theseus. Further, he created the score for Buddha in a Traffic Jam in 2011. These two films were released in 2013 and 2016 respectively. While he earned notable recognition for his track in Ship of Theseus, Buddha In A Traffic Jam got him widespread critical acclaim for having seventeen tracks that included music genres as varied as tribal blues, folk rock and rock opera to blues and jazz. The soundtracks also included two nazms namely "Bekaar Kutte" and "Chand Roz", written by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, a revolutionary poet from Pakistan. He continued to compose music for several feature films during this period. In 2016, he scored the music for Anaarkali of Aarah, where he got the chance to experiment with folk music and folk songs from Bihar. This won him the Best Music Director award in the 8th Jagran Film Festival. who was the singer for one of the tracks of this series. In the same year, he also composed two tracks for the web series Flames - Season 3 by The Viral Fever. In 2024, Sharma worked on Maharani Season 3, composing several tracks including “Kaun Bola Ban Hai”, “Kaun Thagwa Nagariya” and “Naya Savera”, and lent his voice to “Kaun Bola Ban Hai”. He was honoured with the Music Director Special Award at the Clef Music Awards in 2024 for his work on this season. In the same year, he also composed the track "Bakheda" for Maamla Legal Hai, a legal drama comedy series directed by Rahul Pandey, and sang "Sirsa Ka Phorey (Naam Ki Apne Tuti Bole)" from the same series.

In 2025, he contributed to the series Gram Chikitsalay, composing and singing the song “Kanchi Tori Kaya". Alongside composing the title song & background score for Uttar Da Puttar & Maamla Legal Hai - Season 2, in 2026, Rohit Sharma also composed, produced and recorded the theme for Anand Gandhi's audio book Maya - Seed Takes Root.

Besides composing music for films & OTT, Rohit Sharma is also part of a band called Swaang.

Discography

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Films Year Film Song(s) Credited As