Jolly Mukherjee

Jolly Mukherjee is a renowned Bollywood singer, songwriter and producer, who became popular as the country’s King of Strings. Initially, he works as a backup singer for television commercials and subsequently became a music writer for airline on-flight introductions such as the British Airways. However, his passion is really into arranging and composing music. His origin includes a combination of Western and Hindustani Classical music. Jolly rose to fame when he started working at the Madras Cinematic Orchestra, performing with a combination of percussion and strings.

He started working in the music industry as a chorus singer in the year 1978, along with R.D. Burman. Later, he sang for him in Bollywood films like Indrajeet in 1991 and Tum Karo Vaada in 1993. The composer duo, Laxmikant and Pyarelal gave him a break in Feroz Khan’s Davayan: Truth is Power. He sang Diwani Tum Jawanon Ki and the super hit Chahe Meri Jaan Tu Le Le. Jolly admits that Burman made him sing below his baton with the same style similar to Burman’s style. That’s when his journey started and since then, he sang for films like Narshima, Chaalbaaz, Aadmi, Insaaf Apne Lahu Se, Judge Mujrim, Agnisakshi, Raja Babu Click to look into! >> Read More... , Aatish and many more.

One of his breakthroughs came when music producer, Shashi Gopal (head of Magnasound) offered him to become the arranger of Hariharan’s Hazir. They formed their team and started to collaborate in Hariharan’s successive albums like Jashn, Paigham and Gulfam. He also collaborated with Manhar Udhas Manhar Udhas is a Bollywood singer who sings in Gu >> Read More... and Chandan Das Bio coming soon... >> Read More... . Some of his notable songs as a music arranger include Chandni O Meri Chandni from the Hindi film, Chandni in 1989, Kya Hua from Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman in 1992, Sahibaan Meri Sahibaan from the Bollywood romantic film Sahibaan in 1993, Goriya Re Goriya from the 1993 film Aaina and the title song from Ketan Mehta’s Aar Ya Paar Story soon... >> Read More... in 1997. Jolly also worked in the background music of Dushmani, Zameer and Bambai Ka Babu. He became a music composer through the album Kasak of Magnasound. He also scored as an arranger a very popular item number entitled Dekho 2000 Zamana Aa Gaya from the Bollywood action masala film, Mela in the year 2000. Jolly made a frothy number with Kamal Haasan Kamal Haasan is the most versatile actor that Indi >> Read More... and Hariharan in the Tamil and Hindi version of the Indian period crime drama film, Hey Ram Click to look into! >> Read More... in the year 2000. He also signed for several international albums as a music arranger under the strings section. He collaborated with Underwolves (Polygram International Album), Iceland singer, Bjork and with the Palm Pictures, USA. Jolly also provides playback for Bangladesh actor, Dipjol. His album entitled Fusebox includes remixes from the British DJ and producer, State of Bengal, the trip hop duo from UK, Badmarsh & Shri and The Underwolves. The Bhatiyali remixed version became very successful.

Besides working in the film’s music, his jingles were used from the commercials of products like Lifebuoy, Ponds, Apollo Tyres and Red Label Tea. He joined the musical reality show, Jjhoom India Jjhoom India is a musical talent based show which >> Read More... on Sahara One, from which he teamed up with film actress and producer, Shama Sikander Shama Sikander Gesawat is an actress, and film pr >> Read More... in 2007. In 2009, he co-produced the film and arranged the music of the Hindi film, Detective Naani, helmed by Romilla Mukherjee.