Tanishk Bagchi

Vayu was nominated as the best lyricist for Mere Liye Tum Kaafi Ho a song from that film at the 66th Filmfare Awards.

Bagchi recreated 3 songs in Street Dancer 3D.

Tanishk Bagchi (born 23 November 1980) is an Indian music producer, composer, singer and lyricist in Hindi films.

He is known for tracks like "Vaaste", "Bolna", "Ve Maahi", "Aankh Maarey" (recreated), "Dilbar" (recreated), "Jehda Nasha" (recreated) and "Lut Gaye" (recreated).

Tanishk Bagchi was born to musicians Nandakumar Bagchi and Sharmistha Dash and hails from Kolkata, West Bengal.

He attended the Frank Anthony Public School and the Scottish Church College.

Bagchi released the Bengali-language album City Life in 2007.

Bagchi later worked as a music producer alongside Aditya Dev in the song Meherbani, composed and written by Arko Pravo Mukherjee for the film 2014 film The Shaukeens.

Bagchi collaborated with lyricist Vayu Srivastava for a single Oopar Oopar Renn De.

Anurag Kashyap liked it and led the duo to a person named Ravi Adhikari, a close relative to the director of the 2015 film Tanu Weds Manu Returns, Aanand L. Rai.

The duo then made their debut in Bollywood with the song Banno.

Before composing for films, he produced and arranged music for TV shows like Thapki...Pyar Ki etc.

Bagchi debuted as a solo composer in the song Samandar in Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon.

In 2017, Bagchi's first single outing for Machine arrived.

The album had Dr. Zeus as a guest composer of a dance number.

Though the film was a flop in the box office, the songs like Cheez Badi crossed million views on YouTube.

In the same year, he, along with Vayu, composed the soundtrack album of the film Shubh Mangal Saavdhan.

Bagchi's first remake song Humma Humma, from the 2017 film Ok Jaanu.

was initially disliked, but later went on to receive over 200 million views on YouTube.

That same year, he recreated more classic songs like Tamma Tamma, Mere Rashke Qamar, Cheez Badi, etc. He then won the Zee Cine Award for Song of the Year for his song Baarish from Half Girlfriend and the 2018 IIFA Award for Best Music Director for the film Badrinath Ki Dulhania.

Tanishk-Vayu's song Kanha got many nominations and the singer Shashaa Tirupati also won one of them.

In 2018, Bagchi composed the soundtrack album of the film Loveyatri, with DJ Chetas-Lijo George and JAM8.

Bagchi made his Telugu debut in the song "Adbhutam" from the film Lover.

He, along with Vayu, composed the new Red FM Jingle, which includes the voice of Rajnigandha Shekhawat and the lyrics were written by Vayu.

He also recreated two songs that year - Dilbar in the film Satyamev Jayate which received 20 million views in its first 24 hours of release on YouTube, and Aankh Maarey for Simmba which became the party anthem of 2018-19 New Year's parties.

Aankh Maarey crossed 1 billion views in 2021.

The others include Sanu Ek Pal Chain, Gali Gali, Naam Hai Mera, etc. He also collaborated with Himesh Reshammiya in the recreation of Reshammiya's hit track Aashiq Banaya Aapne in Hate Story 4 with additional vocals of Neha Kakkar.

He also composed the soundtrack album of Simmba along with one of its two themes.

The other theme was composed by S. Thaman and one song in the album, Mera Wala Dance was composed by DJ Chetas-Lijo George.

In 2019, Bagchi was nominated as the best lyricist for his song Ve Maahi from the 2019 film Kesari at the 65th Filmfare Awards.

He later released his single "Khud Se Zyada" with the independent record label VYRL originals as a singer-songwriter.

His single Vaaste, sung by Dhvani Bhanushali and Nikhil D'Souza became the most viewed Hindi track on YouTube in 2019.

The song crossed 1 billion views in 2020.

He also composed Makhna song for the Netflix drama Drive.

In the same year, he made his debut in Tamil through his song Kadhal Psycho in Saaho (Tamil).

The song was composed by him in Telugu, Malayalam, and Hindi as well.

He collaborated with Kshmr for the theme song of Good Newwz.

In the same album, he composed 4 out of the 7 other songs.

In 2020, Tanishk-Vayu created the Pepsi anthem Swag Se Solo and Holi song Mere Angne Mein.

The duo also composed the soundtrack album of the film Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan.