Chirkutt


Chirkutt is a Bangladeshi rock band from Dhaka, formed in 2002. It consists of vocalist Sharmin Sultana Sumi, guitarist Emon Chowdhury, bassist Didar Hasan, keyboards player Jahid Nirob and drummer Pavel Areen.

History

This band was formed in 2002 by Sharmin Sultana Sumi. Emon Chowdhury joined in 2005, Pavel Areen joined in 2008 and Jahid Nirob joined in 2015. Eight years after the band was formed they released their first album Chirkuttnama.
Chirkutt's performed at SXSW-2016 in Austin, USA and South Asian Band Festival-Delhi, India, the President house concert in India-2014, India Music Week and the Jaffna Music Festival, Sri Lanka. They were also the winners of the RTV Best Band Award 2012. Chirkutt band has also embarked for a tour in Norway with Norwegian rockers Casa Murilo in 2013. They performed on Asian TV music show in September 2016.

Members

Present members
Channel i Music Awards
RTV Music Awards
SAARC Film Festival Award

Chirkutt in film

The band has also worked on several local film music director. Among notable films, "Jalal's Story", the film 2015 in the 88th edition of the Academy Awards, the Oscar for foreign language film category this movie is selected from Bangladesh. They have also won the "SAARC" film festival award in 2016 for the best original score of the film "Jalaler Golpo". Chirkutt also have done the playback in the movies "Television", and "Piprabidya", of Renowned director Mostofa Sarwar Farooki. They did the soundtract of Aynabaji of Amitabh Reza Chowdhury 2016 film, Ice cream of Redowan Rony. Chirkutt did the soundtrack of the movie “Tumi Je Amar” by RTV. They composed the soundtrack of the 2017 movie 'Doob – No bed of roses'.