Music director charanjit ahuja biography

Amar Singh Chamkila's life has all the drama that a filmmaker can dream of. A poor Dalit labourer skyrocketing to success because of his mass appeal as a singer.

Charanjit ahuja wiki

Charanjit ahuja wiki

Charanjit Ahuja.

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Ahuja was not only a great music composer but also a great director of his time who composed songs for many singers and some so many singers.

Punjabi composer, film music director and producer.

And then his life being cut short by a hail of bullets when he was just 27.

Filmmaker Imtiaz Ali's film on Chamkila, the best-selling Punjabi singer of his time, has shone the spotlight again on the controversial artist.

However, a real-life legend is conspicuously missing from the Imtiaz Ali film Amar Singh Chamkila. The legendary music director Charanjit Ahuja, who took Chamkila to the masses and made him the star he went on to become in his short but eventful career.

If Chamkila was a 'pendu' whose voice had an earthy flavour, it was ace music director Charanjit Ahuja who added the finesse to Chamkila's records.

If the story of Chamkila, a Dalit who started his life as a labourer, is one for folklore, the role played by Charanjit Ahuja, now in his 80