Sandeep Nath


Sandeep Nath is a Singer,Lyricist,Composer,Screenwriter, Director and Producer in Bollywood. He started his literary career as a poet and singer at the age of eighteen. He has completed more than two books as namely "Mujhko Kuch Bhi Naam Doh", "Darpan Ab Bhi Andha Hai". His poetry has been selected in "Kabita Parabasey" an anthology of Bengali poems written by the poets from outside Bengal and published by Bangiya Maitri Samiti Mumbai. He is closely associated with India's fastest growing poetry group "Poets Corner Group" & "Delhi Poetry Festival". One of his poem was featured in Musings : A Mosaic. In his Indian film career he has written lyrics for more than seventy well known Bollywood films, he is most known for his work in films like 'Madhur Bhandarkar's Page 3, Corporate, Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Saawariya, Tigmanshu Dhulia's Paan Singh Tomar and Bullet Raja, Mohit Suri's Aashiqui 2 and Rohit Shetty's Singham Returns, Bhushan Patel's ALONE , Vikramjit Singh's Roy, Deepak Tijori’s Do lafzon ki kahani, Tigmanshu Dhulia's Raag Desh & Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster 3 , Bhushan Patel's Amavas'' ...Sandeep's latest release an original Single song - Rangrez as Singer, Composer is a Sufi number....

Early life and education

Sandeep Nath was born and brought up in a Bengali family in Uttar Pradesh. Sandeep Nath is a Law graduate. He studied in different cities of Uttar Pradesh India as Allahabad, Kanpur, Moradabad, Dhampur & Chandpur . At present Sandeep Nath
lives in Mumbai and his parents live in Kolkata. Sandeep Nath started writing poems at the age of twelve.

Career

Sandeep Nath started journalism during his studies & continued it till date; he wrote more than thousand articles in different newspapers as well as magazines too.
Sandeep Nath worked in editorial department in different newspapers in U.P & Delhi. After that he moved to Mumbai, where he has been working for the last fifteen years.
Sandeep Nath has worked with Bollywood film personalities such as Lata Mangeskar, Asha Bhosle, Sukhwinder Singh, Shaan, Kunal Ganjawala, Kailash Kher, Shreya Ghoshal, Ram Gopal Varma, Sanjay Leela Bhanshali, Madhur Bhandarkar, Pritam, Monty Sharma, Salim Suleman, Shamir Tandon & many other creative people.
Sandeep Nath has got "Stardust Award" for his outstanding performance as a lyricist for the film Saawariya.
Sandeep has ventured into screen writing too in films and television. Worked for numerous films as this capacity of screenwriter and worked for Afsar Bitiya and Ek Ghar Banaunga Hamari Devrani for Star Plus 9 Dulhan Wahi Jo Nanad Mann Bhaye for Mahua Channal as television screenwriter.
The chartbuster 'Sun Raha hai' was penned by Sandeep. With Ankit Tiwari, the team gave another melodious track 'Behki' for Yaara Silly Silly.

Books

1. Mujhko Kuch Bhi Naam Do - A collection of Hindi Poerties... published on 1997
2. Darpan Ab Bhi Andha Hai - A collection of Hindi Ghazal.... published on 1998
Sandeep's poem has been featured in couple of poetry anthologies by Poets Corner Group listed below
3. Musings: Mosaic - It featured 53 poets in total that includes other big names like Gulzar, Shashi Tharoor, Deepti Naval, Irshad Kamil, Dr.Sukrita Kumar Paul apart from Sandeep.
4. Inklinks - Featured 153 poets in total which include big names like A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Gulzar, Ruskin Bond, Kapil Sibal, Vikram Seth, Shekhar Kapur, Irshad kamil, etc.

Filmography

YearFilmAwardCategoryResult
2006Page 3Stardust AwardsStandout Performance By Lyricist
2008SaawariyaStardust AwardsStandout Performance By Lyricist
2008SaawariyaApsara AwardsBest Lyrics
2014Aashiqui 2Zee Cine AwardsBest Lyrics
2014Aashiqui 2Mirchi Music AwardsLyricist of the Year
2014Aashiqui 2Mirchi Music AwardsListeners choice song of the year
2014Aashiqui 2Mirchi Music AwardsListeners choice album of the year
2014Aashiqui 2Mirchi Music AwardsAlbum of the year
2014Aashiqui 215th IIFA AwardsLyrics
2014Sunn Raha Hai – Aashiqui 2GiMA Award for Best Film SongBest Film Song
2016Roy''Mirchi Music AwardsAlbum of The Year