Tapas Relia

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Tapas Relia
Born (1978-08-11) 11 August 1978 (age 45)
Surat, Gujarat, India
GenresFilm score, pop, folk, new age, Indian lassical, fusion
Occupation(s)Composer, music producer, singer, lyricist
Years active1996–present
LabelsVarious
Websitewww.tapasrelia.com

Tapas Relia[1] (Gujarati: 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, IPL and Mahabharat. In Mumbai since 1996, he has also scored music for Bollywood films, including India's first major commercial animation film Hanuman[2] and the recently released film Lakshmi, a film on child trafficking by acclaimed director Nagesh Kukunoor. Based in Mumbai, he works and operates from his own recording studio.[3]

Early life[edit]

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.[4] 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.[5] Simultaneously, he also experimented in the avenue of commercial music and taught himself music programming on synthesisers and sequencers.[6] 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.[4]

Advertising career[edit]

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.[7] It was a huge success, and is considered to be one of the top jingles of all time even today.[citation needed] 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, 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.[8]

Bollywood career[edit]

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, which was based on the Indian God.[9] 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.[10] 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 (2011) and followed up with the critically acclaimed Lakshmi (2014). His music in Lakshmi was hugely appreciated by critics and audiences alike.[11][12] 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[edit]

In 2015, Harman International Industries signed up Tapas Relia to endorse its Professional Audio Range Of Products from JBL and AKG Acoustics.[citation needed] Tapas now exclusively endorses and promotes the use of JBL Speakers and AKG Microphones.

Filmography[edit]

Year Movie Title Producer Director Credits
2005 C U At 9 Milgrey Finance & Investments, Percept Picture Company Marlon Rodrigues Original Songs and Background Music
2005 Hanuman Hyderabad Innovatives, Percept Picture Company, Sahara One Motion Pictures V.G. Samant, Milind Ukey Original Songs and Background Music
2007 Return of Hanuman Percept Picture Company, Toonz Animation India Anurag Kashyap Original Songs and Background Music
2009 Fruit and Nut Indian Films, Studio 18 Kunal Vijaykar Original Songs and Background Music
2010 Bumm Bumm Bole Percept Picture Company, Sanjay Ghodawat Group Priyadarshan Original Songs.

1) Aashaon Ke Pankh
2) Rang De

2010 Toonpur Ka Super Hero Big Screen Entertainment, Climb Media, Eros International Kireet Khurana Original Background Music
2011 Kucch Luv Jaisaa Cinema Capital Venture Fund, Sunshine Pictures See Barnali Roy Shukla Original Background Music
2011 Mod Kukunoor Movies, Shreya Entertainment Nagesh Kukunoor Original Songs and Background Music
2012 Ferrari Ki Sawaari Vinod Chopra Productions Rajesh Mapuskar Original Background Music
2014 Lakshmi Kukunoor Movies Production, SIC Productions, UV News Media & Communication Nagesh Kukunoor Original Songs and Background Music
2015 The Threshold Pushan Kriplani Pushan Kriplani Original Songs and Background Music
2016 Dhanak Manish Mundra (Drishyam Films) Nagesh Kukunoor Original Songs and Background Music
2017 Dhantya Open (Gujarati) Best Sellers Films Ajay Phansekar Original Songs and Background Music
2017 The Test Case (Hindi) ALTBalaji Vinay Waikul Background Music
2019 City of Dreams Season 1 Nagesh Kukunoor Nagesh Kukunoor Background Music
2021 City of Dreams Season 2 Nagesh Kukunoor Nagesh Kukunoor Background Music

References[edit]

  1. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2098463/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
  2. ↑ Hanuman
  3. ↑ http://iscribes.blogspot.in/2009/11/close-up-man.html
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Devika Chaturvedi (5 November 2011). "Tapas Jingles all the way to Bollywood". Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  5. ↑ Shama Bhagat (22 June 2014). "A tryst with tunes". Deccan Herald. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  6. ↑ "Music composer Tapas Relia's journey from Ahmedabad to Bollywood". 8 December 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2019 – via YouTube.
  7. ↑ "The Close-up man!". 29 November 2009. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  8. ↑ "Tapas Relia, Mumbai". Sudeep Audio. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  9. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 1 June 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  10. ↑ "The Golden Cursor Awards 2008: The Complete Coverage". All About Animation. 24 March 2008. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  11. ↑ Kritika Ajmani (8 January 2014). "Lakshmi music review: Every song is a journey worth taking!". BollywoodLife. Essel Group. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  12. ↑ "Lakshmi Music Review". 19 March 2014. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
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