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{{short description|Indian musician}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Ranjit Gazmer
| image = Ranjit_Gazmer_-_KANCHA.jpg
| caption =
| image_size =
| birth_date = 3 October 1941
| birth_place = [[Darjeeling]], [[West Bengal]], India
| citizenship =
| alias = Kancha
| birth_name = Ranjit Gazmer
| instrument = Madal, Vibraphone, Tabla, Drums, Harmonium, Keyboard
| occupation = [[Music director]], musician
| genre = Filmi
| years_active = 1970-present
| label = HMV Records
| origin = Darjeeling
| associated_acts = [[R.D. Burman]], [[Manohari Singh]], [[Kersi Lord]], [[Bhanu Gupta]], [[S.D. Burman]], [[Asha Bhosle]], Marutirao Keer, [[Hari Prasad Chaurasia]]
}}

'''Ranjit Gazmer''' is an [[India]]n film [[music director]] and a [[musician]], who is noted for his work in [[Nepali language|Nepali]]-language films. He had a long association with music director [[R.D. Burman]] as a musician.

==Early life==
Ranjit Gazmer is from a gold merchant family of [[Darjeeling]], [[West Bengal]].

Gazmer was a student of [[Amber Gurung]] at his Art Academy of Music in Darjeeling.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070514/asp/siliguri/story_7772191.asp|title=Nepali Madal Man in Mumbai|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=14 May 2007|access-date=19 July 2012}}</ref> His contemporaries were [[Gopal Yonzon]], [[Karma Yonzon]], Sharan Pradhan, [[Aruna Lama]] and Jitendra Bardewa, all of whom went on to be musicians. He was a part of a musical group called 'Sangam Club' and was also a drummer for 'The Hillians', the first-ever western band formed in Darjeeling. In 1966, he moved to [[Birgunj]], [[Nepal]] with his friends, which included [[Anuradha Koirala]] (then Anuradha Gurung), managing an English-medium private school. In 1967, Gazmer moved to [[Kathmandu]] with his friends and became a studio musician at [[Radio Nepal]]. Later, he moved to [[Mumbai]] (then Bombay) to pursue his music career there with [[R.D. Burman]].

==Career==
===Initial works===
Gazmer joined George Banks, father of [[Louis Banks]] and was performing in his Band. When the Royal Nepal Academy was opened by [[King Mahendra]], Ramsaran Darnal, who worked in the Academy called up Gazmer and gave him a job.

Manohari Singh, a close aid of the Burmans, invited Gazmer to join him in Mumbai. Gazmer arrived in Mumbai on 25 December 1971. Singh then introduced him to [[R.D. Burman]]. After initial introduction where he played a tune composed by himself, he was asked to be present in a recording at Film Centre, Tardeo. When Gazmer reached there, he was surprised and happy to see that the tune which he had played in front of Burman when being introduced was being recorded. The song was 'Kanchi Re Kanchi Re', which had been inspired from Gazmer's composition 'Kancha Re Kancha'. After the recording, Burman told him, "This is your song. And from today, you shall be called 'Kancha'". Since then, he was a sitting member of Burman's team as a percussionist until Burman's death in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.darjeelingtimes.com/news/news/Ranjit-Gazmer-My-mothers-favourite-son.html|title=Ranjit Gazmer: My mother's favourite son!|publisher=Darjeeling Times|date=30 June 2009|access-date=19 July 2012}}</ref>

==Music==
Gazmer worked under [[R.D. Burman]] in Mumbai, playing [[madal]] in several Hindi film songs. In 1982, Ranjit arranged for [[Asha Bhosle]] to sing her first Nepali film song. Since then he has composed music for several Nepali films such as ''[[Samjhana]]'', ''[[Kusume Rumal]]'', ''[[Lahure (film)|Lahure]]'', ''[[Saino]]'', and ''[[Darpan Chaya]]''. He is based in Mumbai and records songs in the studios there.

==Discography==
===As a music director===
{| class="wikitable"
! Year
! Film
! Notes
|-
| rowspan="1"|1981 || ''Bansuri'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|1983 || ''[[Samjhana]]'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|1985 || ''[[Kusume Rumal]]'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|1985 || ''Basudev'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|1987 || ''[[Saino]]'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|1989 || ''[[Lahure (film)|Lahure]]'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|1991 || ''[[Chino (1991 film)|Chino]]'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|1991 || ''Trishna'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|1992 || ''Dui Thopa Aanshu'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|1993 || ''Koseli'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|1994 || ''[[Dakshina (film)|Dakshina]]'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|1996 || ''[[Deuta]]'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|2001 || ''[[Darpan Chaya]]'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|2002 || ''Lahana'' ||
|-
| rowspan="1"|2007 || ''Dui Kinara'' ||
|-
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.nepalicollections.com/artist.php?id=50 Nepali Songs of Ranjit Gazmer]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7lTaMo1Na4 Guftagoo Program Rajyasabha TV]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gazmer, Ranjit}}
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:People from Darjeeling district]]
[[Category:Nepalese musicians]]
[[Category:1941 births]]

Ranjit Gazmer - Revision history

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