Sneha Khanwalkar


Sneha Khanwalkar is an Indian music director who works in Hindi films. She is best known for her score for the film, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, and also for Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1, Part 2. She had been nominated in Best Music Director category at the 58th Filmfare Awards for Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 & Part 2. She is only the second woman to gain a nomination in this category 28 years after Usha Khanna.

Early life and education

Born and brought up in Indore, where her mother's family was entrenched in the Gwalior gharana of Hindustani classical music, through which she learned music as a child.
During her HSC vacations, she did an animation course and art direction course. In 2001, her family moved to Mumbai, with an aim of her joining an engineering college, but instead she started working in animation followed by art direction before deciding on music direction as a career, after rediscovering her childhood passion for music.

Career

In 2004, she scored the movie The Hope, which competed at the Internationales Filmfest Emden in Germany. Meanwhile, she also did the title track for Ruchi Narain's film, KAL – Yesterday and Tomorrow, though her big break came when she composed music for the 2007 movie Go, produced by Ram Gopal Varma, and also got to compose a song for Sarkar Raj.
In 2008, she won accolades for her score for the film, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! for which she travelled through rural North India, especially Haryana, where she visited the Raagini music festival, while researching for films music, eventually she created a hit soundtrack, embellished with Haryanvi musical influences.
She was the music director of Anurag Kashyap's celebrated movie Gangs of Wasseypur, for which she was nominated in Best Music Director category at the 58th Filmfare Awards.

Sound Trippin

She was also the host of a popular music-based MTV mini-series called Sound Trippin in which she travels to places like Punjab, Banaras, Yellapur, Goa, Leh, etc. collecting local sounds both ambient and everyday singers to local musicians, and creating a final piece of music that resonates the feel and the sounds from that location. The show is shot by Babble Fish Productions
Episode 1 – Tung Tung - Punjab

Episode 2 – Ram Ram - Benaras

Episode 3 – Yere Yere - Yellapura

Episode 4 – Susegaado - Goa

Episode 5 – Phinger Song - Kanpur

Episode 6 – Review of All Episodes

Episode 7 – Majuli

Episode 8 – Scrap Rap - Dharavi

Episode 9 – Ghumma - Mumbai

Episode 10 – Babu - Kolkata

Episode 11 – Ju Ju Leh - Leh

Filmography

Movie music composer