Welcome to the world of Kaushal S. Inamdar

Conversations with Kaushal

 

 

 

What’s Happening

 

· Kaushal has just completed an album called JAANVEE, with singer Jaanvee Prabhu—Aroraa, to be marketed by Sagarika Music which we soon be available at all leading music stores.

· Until recently Kaushal was writing a column on music, called Swarlipi for the Marathi daily, Prahaar. The column appears every Saturday. You can read the articles on his Marathi blog—Kshitij Jase Disate.

· Kaushal has been awarded the Indradhanu Vishesh Yuvonmesh Award for exemplary work in the field of light music. He is the only person to receive this award twice.

· Kaushal’s album, Amrutacha Vasa, was released on June 25, 2008 by Pt. Satyasheel Deshpande.

· Kaushal’s first album Shubhra Kalya Moothbhar, is out in it’s CD edition for the first time and is also available for sale on this website.

· Kaushal features eminently in the Diwali Edition of the Kalnirnay magazine. His views have also been incorporated in the Loksatta Diwali Ank.

· Kaushal has also written an article on his maternal grandfather, Shankar Gopal Biniwale, in the Diwali issue of the magazine, Deepmala.

· Kaushal has been awarded the Kalagaurav Award 2008 again for exemplary work in the field of Music. The award will be given on the 11th of January 2009 at a function in Chinchwad.

· Kaushal’s and his team’s performance of Jhenduchi Phule was enthusiastically applauded at the Pulotsav this year held at Pathfinder, Pune. The audience was in splits listening to Acharya Atre’s satirical poetry set to tune by Kaushal.

· The Little Champs in SAREGAMAPA on Zee Marathi have been selected by Kaushal after a comprehensive tour of Maharashtra and screening of over thousands of probable candidates.

· Kaushal’s new Marathi film as a music director, Hungama, is ready in the wings, waiting to be released. In this film Kaushal has recorded a song with the legendary Usha Uthup who sings in a Marathi film for the first time in her career of 37 years. Although the film is in Marathi, the song penned by Guru Thakur, is in Hindi.

· Kaushal is working on the most ambitious project of his life — the Marathi Abhimaan Geet to be sung by over 300 singers and a 100 musicians. This is the project that is Kaushal’s brainchild and is the result of the love for his mother-tongue.

An Introduction to Kaushal S. Inamdar

 

Kaushal S. Inamdar, a talented music composer with an array of achievements behind him has now entered the domain of Hindi Films. His first Hindi Film as a music composer was It’s Breaking News, a film that is repeatedly shown on UTV Movies and is making waves on the DVD circuit in Europe and the United States. His stint as a mentor and a judge in Zee Marathi’s SAREGAMAPA brought to the fore Kaushal’s intelligent and common sense approach towards music, which has been the hallmark of his own music which he has been doing for the past 12 years.  Apart from innumerable television serials—Char Divas Sasuche, Bhatkanti, Saaya, Shanti—to name a few—he has also done Hindi and Marathi albums, Marathi Films such as NOT ONLY MRS RAUT and RAASTA ROKO, stage shows like Jhenduchi Phule and Amrutacha Vasa. He also composed and presented a song for the Mumbai Festival 2005 at the Gateway of India, which was sung by 60 children. He has participated in popular television shows like Nakshatranche Dene (Zee TV Marathi), Idea Sa-Re-Ga-Ma-Pa , and Paulkhuna (ETV Marathi). 

Only a few months back he composed music for the show Rain Raaga wherein he worked with the likes of Louiz Banks and George Brookes.