Debojyoti Mishra

Debojyoti Mishra

Birth : , Calcutta, West Bengal, India

History

Debojyoti Mishra, is an Indian film composer. He became popular with his minimalist classical compositions for the Hindi film Raincoat, directed by Rituparno Ghosh. His work on films like Chokher Bali, Bariwali, Arekti premer golpo, Memories in March was acclaimed. He also worked on Bengali films, Chaturanga and Sesher Kobita, directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. The songs he composed for the Bengali film Autograph starring Prasenjit Chatterjee, Nandana Sen and Indraneil Sengupta, gained immense popularity. All the songs of this film created a new vibration in Bengali film music. His composition for Titli was immensely praised as well which includes the famous song "Megh Pioner Bager Vitor" sung by Srikanto. He has also composed music for the Malayalam film Calcutta News, which was set in Kolkata. Mishra has expressed his talent through painting also. He is a self-taught artist and exhibited his first solo show in December 2012 in ICCR Kolkata by one of youngest art curator of India, Jyotirmoy Bhttacharya. The composer was inspired to become a painter by the Indian painter Jogen Chowdhury. The show was very successful and his mastery of color contrast, ideas of composition and musical touch to the canvas was highly appreciated by master artists of India as well as art critics and media. Debojyoti Mishra's first solo violin album “Tagore on Strings” was launched in 2015.

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Debojyoti Mishra

Movies

Joto Kando Kolkatatei
Music
Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen
Music
Documentary on Aparna Sen's life.
The Last Page
Music
Taranga
Music
Abhijit is diagnosed with a malignant sore in liver. Sohag finds it difficult to bear with the costs of medical expenditure and household things. With the help of her friend Rajiv, She gets an opportunity to avail a job in Purulia. Sohag makes an effort to better her life by communicating with the innovative artworks of the rural artists. Rajiv allots a huge amount of responsibility of the organization on Sohag. Sohag confronts various layers of corruption in the work field. She realizes the suppressed discomfort of the workers there. Rajiv doesn’t take any initiative to rectify the situation. In the meantime, Abhijit’s physical condition deteriorates and he mumbles about her unsuccessful business of producing perfumes. The simultaneous crises related to the conjugal failure, Abhijit’s illness, Rajiv’s consistent admiration weave the narrative of the story. Sohag resigns from her job.
Aaro Ek Prithibi
Music
Pratiksha, 27, arrives in London three months after her marriage and shortly finds herself entrapped in a vortex of lies, deceit and danger. If she does not get out of the mess, everything in her life is at risk. She meets Ayesha.
Projapati
Music
Sukhen, a youngman, lives a casual life. He is innocent but neglected of his family. Sukhen loves Shikha and wants to live a normal and healthy life but his brothers are corrupt as well as politically powerful, who tries to use unemployed Sukhen for their political mileage.
JK 1971
Music
The plot follows a young Frenchman, Jean Kay, who hijacks a plane of Pakistan International Airlines in Paris and demands 20 tons of emergency medicine for children to help Bangladeshi refugees during the 1971 Liberation War.
Aay Khuku Aay
Music
'Aay Khuku Aay' tells the story of a rural father in the vicinity of Bolpur, W.B. who takes his girl to her wedding. Then?
Aparajito - The Undefeated
Music
A young filmmaker prepares for the debut of his first feature film.
Ikir Mikir
Music
A child's play.
72 HOURS
Music
An old man commits suicide by jumping before a running train. In the next 72 hours, six stories unfold one after another. Curiously interlinked, each story is born out of a chance encounter between two strangers leading to a high voltage drama with a strange twist at the end.
Masculine Feminine
Music
Two young married couples are interlinked by a common thread - murder.
Binisutoy
Music
Kajal and Sraboni, two people in their mid-thirties, meet at a reality game show audition. A freak accident injures Sraboni and Kajal takes her to the doctor. On the way, they share two engrossing stories from their lives which culminates in an ironic altercation between them.
The Flute
Original Music Composer
Boundary
Music
How friendship is meaningful in our life? Does it has any barrier by thought? Age, Color, race or religion? Let's make friendship universal -a circle free for better humanity.
Children Of The Soil
Music
A thought provoking short film on Indian farmers told through clay sculptures made from barren farms of the farmers who have committed suicide.
Borunbabur Bondhu
Music
Based on Ramapada Chowdhury's novel 'Chhaad', Borun Chakraborty is an irritable, old man whose wife is dead and the only people he talks to are his childhood friend and his grandson. Isolated from the rest of his family, he lives a lonely life but one day his school friend and the President of India, Pranabesh, does not pay him a visit that changes it all. All of sudden, Borun finds himself at the center of all attention.
Mahalaya
Music
Since its inception in 1931, Mahishasuramardini has been one of the most popular programmes in Bengali radio, and is currently the longest running radio programme in India, narrated by Birendra Krishna Bhadra. This film is a truthful account of what unfolded in 1976, after Aakashvani decided to replace Birendra Krishna with eminent actor Uttam Kumar in a revamped programme.
Bhobishyoter Bhoot
Music
A group of ghosts are rendered homeless as all the old haunted buildings in Kolkata have been converted into multi-storied buildings, malls and multiplexes. Some of them, from varied social-economic background, take shelter in an abandoned, dilapidated single-screen theatre, planning to make themselves relevant and fit for the future as contemporary ghosts.
Hasina: A Daughter's Tale
Music
The film covers the assassination of Hasina's father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of her family member in 1975.
Yours Truly
Musician
Amidst the daily din of the local trains in Calcutta, a lonely working woman in her late fifties finds herself falling in love with the voice of the railway announcer.
Uronchondi
Musician
Uronchondi is a film about the dream, desires and emotions of three women.
Maati
Lyricist
Meghla, who after years discovers that her grandmother had been killed in her ancestral home in East Pakistan by a trusted retainer of the family. And many years after the tragedy, she visits Dhaka to trace her roots and faces the murderer's family who now occupies her house. Maati traces Meghla's trials with truth and humanity while tackling issues of migration, human displacement, and relationships.
Maati
Original Music Composer
Meghla, who after years discovers that her grandmother had been killed in her ancestral home in East Pakistan by a trusted retainer of the family. And many years after the tragedy, she visits Dhaka to trace her roots and faces the murderer's family who now occupies her house. Maati traces Meghla's trials with truth and humanity while tackling issues of migration, human displacement, and relationships.
Goodnight City
Music
Psychiatrist Dr Abhiri Chatterjee receives a phone call in the middle of the night. The caller, who wants to commit suicide, is also a murderer on the loose — or so it appears.
Dharasnan
Music
In order to reach greater heights in her career, Tomosa is willing to go to any extent. Her over-ambitious nature lands her in a conflict with another woman, highlighting their different approaches towards life.
Bishad Bindu
Original Music Composer
Life of an artist who earns his livelihood by engraving miniature images of mosques and temples on grindstones. Set in a small town, the film asks many poignant questions about the contemporary day Indian reality through the artist’s experience of making an error.
Red Oleanders Raktokarobi
Music Director
Raktokorobi is a 2017 Indian Bengali film directed by Amitava Bhattacharya, starring Kaushik Sen, Rahul, and Shantilla Mukherjee. It was released in Hollywood as Red Oleanders Raktokarobi with English subtitles.
Meghnadbodh Rohoshyo
Music
A professor mysteriously vanishes, leaving behind a host of suspects, a shadowy history and a clue: the anonymous birthday gift of a Bengali classic.
Arshinagar
Music
Arshinagar is a Bengali musical romance drama film directed by Aparna Sen. The screenplay is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Natoker Moto: Like a Play
Music
Kheya, a theatre artist, faces challenges in her personal and professional life spanning from 1950 to 1970s in a world dominated by misogynistic men.
The Last Poem
Music
The film recounts the love story of Amit Ray, a barrister educated at Oxford, whose virulent intellectualism reveals itself in its opposition to all forms of tradition. He meets Labanya in a car accident and the romance builds up in the misty hills of Shillong. The iconoclastic Amit clashes with the sincerely simple Labanya. Labanya releases Amit's own submerged depth of sincerity, which he finds hard to adjust to. The struggle makes him a curiously pathetic figure. The tragedy is understood by the girl who releases him from his troth and disappears from his life.
Punascha
Music
Punascha is a serious film about the relationship between an elderly author and his old flame which hits the headlines one fine day when things goes all wrong.
Bonku Babu
Music
A hilarious comedy about a Bengali patriarch Banku Babu who dominates his entire household in completely averse to changes until he meets with an accident which results in about of amnesia. When a local promoter demands his ancestral house, Banku Babu denies and gets injured in a squabble, starting to behave strangely, sometimes like his matinee idol Rajesh Khanna.
Satyanweshi
Music
Satyanweshi is a 2013 Bengali mystery-thriller film directed by Rituparno Ghosh and produced by Shrikant Mohta and Mahendra Soni. This was Ghosh's last full length film as a director. Indian film director Sujoy Ghosh portrayed the character Bymomkesh Bakshi in this film.
মেঘে ঢাকা তারা
Music
Nilkantha, an artist, is admitted in a mental asylum but even while undergoing treatment, he manages to write a play.
Goynar Baksho
Music
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay's famous tale of 3 generations of women & their changing position in society,seen in relation to a box of jewels, handed down from one generation to the next. A film by Aparna Sen.
Chayamoy
Music
Indrajit is a UK based scholar. While working to preserve historical documents he find a parchment from which he learns about treasures hidden in an old palace in Simulgarh, a village of West Bengal. Indrajit comes to the village, finds out the treasure, but, a local goon Gagan Sapui accuses him of robbery, beats him up and expels him out of the village. Sapui wants to melt those coins to make new jewellery. After being beaten up, Indrajit goes to forest near the village where he meets Chhayamoy, a benevolent ghost. After listening the incidence from Indrajit, Chhayamoy decides to teach him a lesson.
Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish
Sound
Rudra and Partho's desire to adopt a child leads Rudra to take the most crucial decision. Rudra decides to undergo sex reassignment surgery, so that they can be legally considered a couple and allowed to adopt a baby.
Memories in March
Music
The film is the effective exploration of a situation wherein a bereaved mother comes to terms with her late son’s sexual identity.
Iti Mrinalini: An Unfinished Letter...
Music
An award-winning aging actress reflects on her life while writing a suicide note.
Autograph
Music
When a superstar, a young director and a theatre actress come together during the making of a film, it changes them forever.
Four Chapters
Music Director
Defying his father’s wishes by following his rebellious uncle’s example, a young Bengali from an upper caste tries to help those on the lower end of the spectrum and, while he’s at it, offers to marry his brother’s pregnant mistress.
Calcutta News
Music
Calcutta News (2008) is a Malayalam romantic drama film written and directed by Blessy. The film stars Dileep, Meera Jasmine, Indrajith and Vimala Raman. The music is by Debojyoti Mishra. The film deals with the issue of trafficking in women and how a middle-class girl from Kerala gets caught in it. It showcased Blessy's yet another different genre film and successfully provided Dileep a different character unlike his usual comic
Raincoat
Music
Tells the story of two lovers, separated by destiny, who meet again one day. This encounter allows each to realize the truth about the lives they are living.
Patalghar
Music
Several interested parties go in search of a sleep-generating machine which was made 150 years ago by a scientist. However, a little boy is named the scientist's heir and becomes his legacy.
Chokher Bali
Music
A young woman is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies. Based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
Subho Mahurat
Music
An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate.
Vacation Blues
Music
Six individuals — Aman and Jaya (a couple), Mou and her father, and Reshmi and her mother — are vacationing in a resort in the outskirts of Kolkata. They are joined by the Kolkata-based rock band Cactus, playing themselves, to shoot a music video. Aman and Jaya soon begin to experience difficulties in their relationship while, on the other hand, a romance blossoms between Mou and Reshmi, both 18 years old, who are exploring their friendship and sexuality.
Aamaar Bhuvan
Music
After Shokhina's marriage to Noor ends, she remarries Meher but faces many complications in her married life. Things get worse when Noor returns to India as a married rich man.
Swapner Feriwala
Music
Gandharbi
Original Music Composer
The Girl
Music
Utsab
Original Music Composer
Family tension runs high when four grown siblings reunite at their elderly mother’s home. When the mother reveals that she might sell off the estate, the announcement stirs up painful memories and uncovers a long-buried secret.
The Lady of the House
Music
A quiet drama about a lonely, sad, middle-aged woman, Banalata, who has lived a solitary existence since her husband-to-be died the night before their wedding from a snake bite. Never having quite gotten over the tragedy, she rarely ventures out and is clearly very lonely. This changes when she agrees to allow a film production to shoot in a wing in her sprawling estate.
Malaise
Music
Rohini is caught up in an endless whirl of shooting schedules. Her parents are hardly a part of her life. Things change when she discovers that her longtime boyfriend has been having an affair with another actress around the same time her mother is hospitalised.
Tumi Eley Tai
Music
Tumi Eley Tai is a family movie about moral values in society. A strong-willed Akash shares a special bond with his grandfather. When a dejected Arundhati faces failure in her relationships, Akash and his family come forward to support her. Why has fate brought Arundhati to Akash and his family?
Crossfire
Music
On her way home the newly wed Romita is molested by five men. The only one who has the courage to help is the young female teacher Jhinuk. Because of that she becomes a heroine and is on all papers' front page. But the page is turning: As not only the police but also neighbours begin to ask embarrassing questions the two women are eventually intimidated and the five man are getting free with the help of corruption and male domination.
Gulab
Music
The film delves into the life of a young couple. On their anniversary celebration, a text SMS changes the life of the male protagonist.
Rabindra-Kabbo Rahasya
Music
Serial killing. United Kingdom. Rabindranath Tagore.