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{{short description|Indian music composer and producer}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2019}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Tapas Relia
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1978|8|11|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Surat]], Gujarat, India
| genre = Film score, pop, folk, new age, Indian lassical, fusion
| occupation = Composer, music producer, singer, lyricist
| years_active = 1996–present
| label = Various
| website = {{URL|www.tapasrelia.com/}}
}}

'''Tapas Relia'''<ref>https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2098463/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm</ref> ({{lang-gu|તપસ રેલિયા}}; born 11 August 1978) is an Indian music composer and producer, known for his famous advertising campaigns for brands like [[Close-Up (toothpaste)]], [[Domino's Pizza]], Amaron Batteries, [[Indian Premier League|IPL]] and [[Mahabharat (2013 TV series)|Mahabharat]]. In [[Mumbai]] since 1996, he has also scored music for Bollywood films, including India's first major commercial animation film ''[[Hanuman (2005 film)|Hanuman]]''<ref>[[Hanuman (2005 film)|Hanuman]]</ref> and the recently released film ''[[Lakshmi (2014 film)|Lakshmi]]'', a film on child trafficking by acclaimed director [[Nagesh Kukunoor]]. Based in Mumbai, he works and operates from his own recording studio.<ref>http://iscribes.blogspot.in/2009/11/close-up-man.html</ref>

==Early life==
Tapas Relia was born in [[Surat]], Gujarat, to a Gujarati couple natively from Surat but living in [[Ahmedabad]]. He spent his entire childhood and teenage years in Ahmedabad and finished higher secondary school from [[St. Xavier's High School, Loyola Hall, Ahmedabad]]. In 1996 he moved to Mumbai to pursue further education and a career in music.<ref name=dna>{{cite news|author=Devika Chaturvedi|url=http://dnasyndication.com/dna/article/DNAHM49010|title=Tapas Jingles all the way to Bollywood|date=5 November 2011|accessdate=3 January 2019}}</ref> He started learning western classical music, with piano as his principal instrument, and finished 7 grades of the [[Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance]] in London.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/content/415096/a-tryst-tunes.html|title=A tryst with tunes|author=Shama Bhagat|work=[[Deccan Herald]]|date=22 June 2014|accessdate=3 January 2019}}</ref> Simultaneously, he also experimented in the avenue of commercial music and taught himself music programming on synthesisers and sequencers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIAC2Q1hMzs&list=PL9E6F258D38A27C69&index=1&feature=plpp_video|title=Music composer Tapas Relia's journey from Ahmedabad to Bollywood|via=YouTube|date=8 December 2011|accessdate=3 January 2019}}</ref> In the year 2000 he went to the US, and studied Composing for Film and Multimedia in [[New York University]], New York City as a summer course, and returned to [[India]] in the same year, post its completion.<ref name=dna/>

==Advertising career==
He started composing and arranging music for small advertising jobs, primarily in the corporate and radio sector. His first major break in mainstream advertising came in the form of the [[jingle]] ''Kya Aap Closeup Karte Hain'' for [[Close-Up (toothpaste)|Close-Up]] toothpaste.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://iscribes.blogspot.in/2009/11/close-up-man.html|title=The Close-up man!|date=29 November 2009|accessdate=3 January 2019}}</ref> It was a huge success, and is considered to be one of the top jingles of all time even today.{{cn|date=January 2019}} After that he went onto compose hundreds of Ads and other jingles for leading brands and agencies, including the Amaron Batteries campaign, [[Domino's Pizza]] ''Pizza Aaye Free'' campaign, ''[[Hero Honda]]'' (2010) campaign, [[Indian Premier League|IPL]] [[Mumbai Indians]] Anthem, and several other advertising campaigns, including ad campaigns and promos for leading Television shows like Mahabharata (2013) [[Kaun Banega Crorepati]] Season 3, [[Bigg Boss]] and [[MasterChef India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sudeepaudio.com/profile/detailProfile/167|title=Tapas Relia, Mumbai|publisher=Sudeep Audio|accessdate=3 January 2019}}</ref>

==Bollywood career==
After becoming a well recognised name in the advertising field, he was approached by [[Percept Picture Company]] to score the music for India's first animation film called ''[[Hanuman (2005 film)|Hanuman]]'', which was based on the Indian God.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://epaper.dnaindia.com/story.aspx?id=10212&boxid=29181122&ed_date=2012-06-21&ed_code=1310009&ed_page=1 |title=Archived copy |access-date=15 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601162046/http://epaper.dnaindia.com/story.aspx?id=10212&boxid=29181122&ed_date=2012-06-21&ed_code=1310009&ed_page=1 |archive-date=1 June 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The movie was declared a hit, and the music was well received critically and commercially. Following the success of ''Hanuman'', Percept Picture Company offered him the sequel ''[[Return of Hanuman]]'' in the year 2007, which was directed by ace film maker [[Anurag Kashyap]]. Tapas won the 'Golden Cursor Animation Award' for best music.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://allaboutanimation.com/web/events/the-golden-cursor-awards-2008-the-complete-coverage/|title=The Golden Cursor Awards 2008: The Complete Coverage|publisher=All About Animation|date=24 March 2008|accessdate=3 January 2019}}</ref> In the year 2008, Tapas was approached by the critically acclaimed film maker [[Nagesh Kukunoor]] to write music for his film ''Yeh Hausla'', starring [[Karan Nath]] and [[Sameera Reddy]] in the lead. The movie which was produced by Percept Picture Company, never released though. He then scored the music for [[Nagesh Kukunoor]]’s ''[[Mod (film)|Mod]]'' (2011) and followed up with the critically acclaimed ''[[Lakshmi (2014 film)|Lakshmi]]'' (2014). His music in Lakshmi was hugely appreciated by critics and audiences alike.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/lakshmi-music-review-every-song-is-a-journey-worth-taking/|author=Kritika Ajmani|title=Lakshmi music review: Every song is a journey worth taking!|website=BollywoodLife|publisher=[[Essel Group]]|date=8 January 2014|accessdate=3 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.glamsham.com/o/music-review/lakshmi|title=Lakshmi Music Review|date=19 March 2014|accessdate=3 January 2019}}</ref> In 2012 he scored the background music for [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]]’s ''[[Ferrari Ki Sawaari]]'' directed by Rajesh Mapuskar. Currently he is working on his next film with Nagesh Kukunoor called ‘Dhanak’, which is slated for a 2015 India Release.

==Product endorsements==
In 2015, [[Harman International Industries]] signed up Tapas Relia to endorse its Professional Audio Range Of Products from [[JBL (company)|JBL]] and [[AKG Acoustics]].{{cn|date=January 2019}} Tapas now exclusively endorses and promotes the use of JBL Speakers and AKG Microphones.

==Filmography==
{| class=wikitable
|-
!Year!!Movie Title!!Producer!!Director!!Credits
|-
|rowspan=1|2005||''[[C U At 9]]''||Milgrey Finance & Investments, [[Percept Picture Company]]||[[Marlon Rodrigues]]||Original Songs and Background Music
|-
|rowspan=1|2005||''[[Hanuman (2005 film)|Hanuman]]''||Hyderabad Innovatives, Percept Picture Company, Sahara One Motion Pictures||V.G. Samant, Milind Ukey||Original Songs and Background Music
|-
|rowspan=1|2007||''[[Return of Hanuman]]''||Percept Picture Company, Toonz Animation India||[[Anurag Kashyap]]||Original Songs and Background Music
|-
|rowspan=1|2009||''[[Fruit and Nut (film)|Fruit and Nut]]''||Indian Films, Studio 18||[[Kunal Vijaykar]]||Original Songs and Background Music
|-
|rowspan=1|2010||''[[Bumm Bumm Bole]]''||Percept Picture Company, Sanjay Ghodawat Group||[[Priyadarshan]]||Original Songs.
1) Aashaon Ke Pankh<br>2) Rang De<br>
|-
|rowspan=1|2010||''[[Toonpur Ka Super Hero]]''||Big Screen Entertainment, Climb Media, [[Eros International]]||[[Kireet Khurana]]||Original Background Music
|-
|rowspan=1|2011||''[[Kucch Luv Jaisaa]]''||Cinema Capital Venture Fund, Sunshine Pictures See||Barnali Roy Shukla||Original Background Music
|-
|rowspan=1|2011||''[[Mod (film)|Mod]]''||Kukunoor Movies, Shreya Entertainment||[[Nagesh Kukunoor]]||Original Songs and Background Music
|-
|rowspan=1|2012||''[[Ferrari Ki Sawaari]]''||Vinod Chopra Productions||Rajesh Mapuskar||Original Background Music
|-
|rowspan=1|2014||''[[Lakshmi (2014 film)|Lakshmi]]''||Kukunoor Movies Production, SIC Productions, UV News Media & Communication||[[Nagesh Kukunoor]]||Original Songs and Background Music
|-
|rowspan=1|2015||''The Threshold''||Pushan Kriplani||Pushan Kriplani||Original Songs and Background Music
|-
|rowspan=1|2016||''[[Dhanak]]''||Manish Mundra ([[Drishyam Films]])||Nagesh Kukunoor||Original Songs and Background Music
|-
|rowspan=1|2017||''[[Dhantya Open]]'' (Gujarati)||Best Sellers Films||[[Ajay Phansekar]]||Original Songs and Background Music
|-
|rowspan=1|2017||''[[The Test Case (web series)|The Test Case]]'' (Hindi)||[[ALTBalaji]]||Vinay Waikul||Background Music
|-
|2019
|''[[City of Dreams (TV series)|City of Dreams]] Season 1''
|[[Nagesh Kukunoor]]
|[[Nagesh Kukunoor]]
|Background Music
|-
|2021
|''[[City of Dreams (TV series)|City of Dreams]] Season 2''
|[[Nagesh Kukunoor]]
|[[Nagesh Kukunoor]]
|Background Music
|}

==References==
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[[Category:People from Surat]]
[[Category:1978 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Indian film score composers]]
[[Category:Indian record producers]]
[[Category:Television composers]]
[[Category:Jingle composers]]
[[Category:Gujarati people]]
[[Category:New York University alumni]]

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