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	'''Ajit Singh Varman''' (~~{{lang-hi\|अजीत वर्मन}};~~ 26 March 1947 – 15 December 2016<ref>{{cite news\|url=~~http~~://~~www~~.~~timesofindia~~.com/city/mumbai/composer-of-80s-melodies-varman-dead/articleshow/56012019.cms \|title=Composer of '80s melodies Ajit Varman passes away \|newspaper=[[Times of India]] \|date=16 December 2016 }}</ref>), sometimes also credited as '''Ajit Verman''', was an Indian [[film score\|film music]] [[composer]].~~<ref>{{cite web\|title=Saraansh Movie Review\|url=http://www.planetbollywood.com/displayReview.php?id=f012908082849\|work=Planet Bollywood\|access-date=2 June 2010}}</ref>~~ He started his career in the 1960s as a musician for the likes of [[Satyajit Ray]], [[Mrinal Sen]], [[Pankaj Mullick]] and [[Salil Chowdhury]] in Calcutta (now [[Kolkata]]) as well as [[Shankar Jaikishan]] and [[Laxmikant Pyarelal]] in the 1970s in Mumbai (then Bombay) till 1975 when he decided to make the transition to full-time music direction.		'''Ajit Singh Varman''' (26 March 1947 – 15 December 2016<ref>{{cite news\|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/composer-of-80s-melodies-varman-dead/articleshow/56012019.cms \|title=Composer of '80s melodies Ajit Varman passes away \|newspaper=[[Times of India]] \|date=16 December 2016 }}</ref>), sometimes also credited as '''Ajit Verman''', was an Indian [[film score\|film music]] [[composer]]. He started his career in the 1960s as a musician for the likes of [[Satyajit Ray]], [[Mrinal Sen]], [[Pankaj Mullick]] and [[Salil Chowdhury]] in Calcutta (now [[Kolkata]]) as well as [[Shankar Jaikishan]] and [[Laxmikant Pyarelal]] in the 1970s in Mumbai (then Bombay) till 1975 when he decided to make the transition to full-time music direction.

	He worked on [[Govind Nihalani]]'s ''[[Aakrosh (1980 film)\|Aakrosh]]'' (1980), ''[[Vijeta (1982 film)\|Vijeta]]'' (1982) and ''[[Ardh Satya]]'' (1983), besides two of [[Mahesh Bhatt]]'s early classics ''[[Saaransh]]'' (1984) and ''[[Janam (1985 film)\|Janam]]'' (1985).~~Yeh aashiqui meri (1998)~~{{Sfn\|Banerjee\|2013\|p=10}}~~(19~~{{Sfn\|Limbacher\|Wright\|1991\|p=179}}		He worked on [[Govind Nihalani]]'s ''[[Aakrosh (1980 film)\|Aakrosh]]'' (1980), ''[[Vijeta (1982 film)\|Vijeta]]'' (1982) and ''[[Ardh Satya]]'' (1983), besides two of [[Mahesh Bhatt]]'s early classics ''[[Saaransh]]'' (1984) and ''[[Janam (1985 film)\|Janam]]'' (1985).{{Sfn\|Banerjee\|2013\|p=10}}{{Sfn\|Limbacher\|Wright\|1991\|p=179}}

	==Filmography==		==Filmography==
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Ajit Varman
| image =
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| birth_name = Ajit Singh Varman
| alias =
| birth_date = {{birth date |1947|3|26|df=y}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|12|15|1947|3|26|df=y}}
| origin = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| instrument =
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| occupation = [[Music Director]]
| years_active = 1975- 2016
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'''Ajit Singh Varman''' ({{lang-hi|अजीत वर्मन}}; 26 March 1947 – 15 December 2016<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timesofindia.com/city/mumbai/composer-of-80s-melodies-varman-dead/articleshow/56012019.cms |title=Composer of '80s melodies Ajit Varman passes away |newspaper=[[Times of India]] |date=16 December 2016 }}</ref>), sometimes also credited as '''Ajit Verman''', was an Indian [[film score|film music]] [[composer]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Saraansh Movie Review|url=http://www.planetbollywood.com/displayReview.php?id=f012908082849|work=Planet Bollywood|access-date=2 June 2010}}</ref> He started his career in the 1960s as a musician for the likes of [[Satyajit Ray]], [[Mrinal Sen]], [[Pankaj Mullick]] and [[Salil Chowdhury]] in Calcutta (now [[Kolkata]]) as well as [[Shankar Jaikishan]] and [[Laxmikant Pyarelal]] in the 1970s in Mumbai (then Bombay) till 1975 when he decided to make the transition to full-time music direction.

He worked on [[Govind Nihalani]]'s ''[[Aakrosh (1980 film)|Aakrosh]]'' (1980), ''[[Vijeta (1982 film)|Vijeta]]'' (1982) and ''[[Ardh Satya]]'' (1983), besides two of [[Mahesh Bhatt]]'s early classics ''[[Saaransh]]'' (1984) and ''[[Janam (1985 film)|Janam]]'' (1985).Yeh aashiqui meri (1998){{Sfn|Banerjee|2013|p=10}}(19{{Sfn|Limbacher|Wright|1991|p=179}}

==Filmography==
* ''[[Aakrosh (1980 film)|Aakrosh]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Vijeta (1982 film)|Vijeta]]'' (1982)
* ''[[Ardh Satya]]'' (1983)
* ''[[Saaransh]]'' (1984)
* ''Misaal'' (1985)
* ''[[Janam (1985 film)|Janam]]'' (1985, TV Movie)
* ''[[Andha Yudh]]'' (1987)
* ''[[Karm Yodha]]'' (1992)
* ''[[Imtihaan (TV show)|Imtihaan]]'' (1995, TV show)
* Mohini (1995, Background Score)

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|last1=Limbacher|first1=James L.|last2=Wright|first2=H. Stephen|title=Keeping score: film and television music, 1980-1988|url=https://archive.org/details/keepingscorefilm00limb|url-access=registration|year= 1991|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-2453-9}}
* {{cite book|last=Banerjee|first=Srivastava|title=One Hundred Indian Feature Films: An Annotated Filmography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9RPeAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|year= 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-84098-3}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0894336}}

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