Tajdar Junaid feat. Sambit Chatterjee Rohan Rajadhyaksha Adil Kurwa Bhaskar Dutta

With roots in Calcutta, India, and current studio in Bombay, multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter and producer Tajdar Junaid’s debut album, What Colour Is Your Raindrop was a personal inspiration of the images and sounds that shaped his art. A lover of all honest expressions of art, Tajdar’s work was named as one of the Top Albums of 2013 by Rolling Stone, RSJ and his composition ‘dastaan’ was heard in the legendary Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf's new film ""The President”, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, 2014. 

With his notes travelling all over; Hollywood film ""Sold"" produced by Academy Award winner Emma Thompson (2013), to Bollywood and Tollywood with collaborations with Anurag Kashyap Productions, Aparna Sen and Rituparno Ghosh. To the indie circuit, with one that earned him a Filmfare nomination for Best background score for “Mukti Bhawan” (2018), his documentary trail represented at Sundance and IDFA and a nomination for Best Documentary at the 94th Academy Awards by “Writing With Fire” (2021), a recent feature in Coke Studio Bharat, Tajdar’s is a global voice, courageous and relentless in offering his unique sensibilities towards the stories of human condition.  

Having gained experience in teaching music for almost 15 years, Tajdar has regularly offered himself to workshops and dialogues for young musicians and artists alike. A vivid member of the local music scene from urban and suburban parts of India, Tajdar has also collaborated with other artists in the form of theatre, dance, interactive media displays, stadium concerts; thereby extending, sharing and transforming the idea of his space and practice. His collaborators include the guitar maestro Amyt Datta; Blackstratblues, NZ songwriter Greg Johnson, Karsh Kale, folk singer Moushumi Bhowmik, Fred White from Acoustic Alchemy, Anusheh Anadil, Swanand Kirkire.

Due to Tajdar’s regular practice of keeping his art accessible and open, his style has been termed inimitable and highly adaptable. He religiously believes in the tradition of combining Western and Indian elements through various instruments like the South American Charango, the Steel guitar and even the Sarangi, however one of his trademarks remain the reticent quality and quiet gaps that fill the notes in his pieces. Tajdar reserves this quality of quiet and reflective music that have always set his compositions apart; clear, graceful and distinct. 

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