Rakesh Kumar Tripathi

Rakesh Tripathi
Born (1970-11-14) 14 November 1970
Dumdum Cantonment, Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, India
Occupation Writer, lyricist, director
Years active 1992 – present

Rakesh Tripathi or Rakesh Kumar Tripathi (his full name) (Hindi: राकेश त्रिपाठी) born on 14 November 1970, is a noted screenwriter, lyricist and director based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.[1]

Career

He started his career as a theater activist with a group theatre "Rangakarmee". He worked as a full time repertory member, received scholarship from Ministry of Culture, India as a repertory member of the group. He spent eight years under guidance of Smt. Usha Ganguly, a recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. He worked there as an actor, writer as well as a back stage worker.

In the year 2000, He went to Mumbai, city of dreams and opportunities to explore new horizons. He worked with 'Nimbus Television' and wrote several ad films for Asian Sky Shop. He came back to his hometown, Kolkata in 2002 to finish a project and since then he is living in Kolkata.

He has written more than ten television serials for different TV channels, worked as an assistant/associate director, and written about 500 songs for films, TV serials. He has also many ad films and jingles to his contribution. He has written dialog and lyrics for a Bhojpuri film, Pistol-ego prem kahani(2009) and a Hindi feature film Gumshuda (2010), directed by national award winner director Mr Ashoke Viswanathan, featuring Rajit Kapur, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Simone Singh, Raj Zutshi And Victor Bannerjee in the Main Cast. Gumshuda's music album was released by HMV saregama.

He wrote a Hindi song for a Bengali feature film titled 'Banobhumi' this was the only original soundtrack in the film and was treated as the theme song of the film. Many Noted singers of Hindi and Bengali music field have sung songs written by Rakesh Tripathi, such as Sonu Nigaam, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal, Shaan, June Bannerjee, Vinod Rathore, Srikanto Acharya, Shubhomita, Raghav, Rupankar, Jojo, etc. He has translated 10 Tagore songs in Hindi for a music album – "Ravikiran", which was released by 'Saregama' (HMV) in October 2010.

He has written songs for tableaux displayed at Rajpath, New Delhi during The Republic Day Parade on 26th January, 2015.

Television

Films

References

  1. ↑ Guha, Nandini (13 September 2009). "An unusual take". The Telegraph (Calcutta, India). Retrieved 11 April 2010.

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