# Sneha Khanwalkar

Sneha Khanwalkar (born 28 April 1983) is an Indian music director who works in Hindi films. She is best known for her score for the film, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, and also for Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1, Part 2. She had been nominated in Best Music Director category at the 58th Filmfare Awards for Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 & Part 2 (credited as music director of Gangs of Wasseypur). She is only the second woman to gain a nomination in this category 28 years after Usha Khanna.

## Early life and education

Born and brought up in Indore, where her mother's family was entrenched in the Gwalior gharana of Hindustani classical music, through which she learned music as a child.
During her HSC vacations, she did an animation course and art direction course. In 2001, her family moved to Mumbai, with an aim of her joining an engineering college, but instead she started working in animation followed by art direction before deciding on music direction as a career, after rediscovering her childhood passion for music.

## Career

In 2004, she scored the movie The Hope, which competed at the Internationales Filmfest Emden in Germany. Meanwhile, she also did the title track for Ruchi Narain's film, KAL – Yesterday and Tomorrow (2005), though her big break came when she composed music for the 2007 movie Go, produced by Ram Gopal Varma, and also got to compose a song for Sarkar Raj (2008).
In 2008, she won accolades for her score for the film, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! for which she travelled through rural North India, especially Haryana, where she visited the Raagini music festival, while researching for the film's music, eventually she created a hit soundtrack, embellished with Haryanvi musical influences.
She was the music director of Anurag Kashyap's celebrated movie Gangs of Wasseypur (Part 1 & Part 2), for which she was nominated in Best Music Director category at the 58th Filmfare Awards.

## Sound Trippin

She was also the host of a popular music-based MTV mini-series called Sound Trippin in which she travels to places like Punjab, Banaras, Yellapur (North Canara, Karnataka), Goa, Leh, etc. collecting local sounds both ambient and everyday singers to local musicians, and creating a final piece of music that resonates the feel and the sounds from that location. The show is shot by Babble Fish Productions
Episode 1 – Tung Tung - Punjab (Qila Raipur Rural olympics) Episode 2 – Ram Ram - Benaras Episode 3 – Yere Yere - Yellapura (North Kanara, Karnataka) Episode 4 – Susegaado - Goa Episode 5 – Phinger Song - Kanpur Episode 6 – Review of All Episodes Episode 7 – Majuli(Assam) Episode 8 – Scrap Rap - Dharavi (A Slum in Mumbai) Episode 9 – Ghumma - Mumbai Episode 10 – Babu - Kolkata Episode 11 – Ju Ju Leh - Leh

## Filmography
### Movie music composer

| Year | Film | Note(s) |
| 2006 | Undisputed | Short film |
| 2005 | Kal: Yesterday and Tomorrow | One song |
| 2007 | Go | All songs |
| 2008 | Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! | All songs |
| 2010 | Love Sex Aur Dhokha | All songs |
| 2011 | Bheja Fry 2 | One song |
| 2012 | Gangs of Wasseypur (Part 1 & Part 2) | All songs Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Music Director (for the music of both parts) |
| 2012 | Supermen of Malegaon | Documentary |
| 2014 | Dishkiyaoon | Two songs |
| 2014 | Youngistaan | Two songs |
| 2014 | Khoobsurat | Four songs |
| 2015 | Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! | One song along with Dibakar Banerjee |
| 2015 | Singh is Bling | One song |
| 2017 | Hanuman Da' Damdaar | All songs Also provided the voice for the character "Seeti" |
| 2018 | Manto | Four songs |
| 2020 | Ghoomketu | Two songs |
| 2020 | Trance | As a playback singer for one track Malayalam film |
| 2020 | Raat Akeli Hai | All songs |
| 2022 | Sharmaji Namkeen | All songs |
| 2022 | Chup: Revenge of The Artist | One song |
| 2022 | Mister Mummy | Four songs |
| 2024 | Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2 | One song |
| 2024 | CTRL | All songs |

### Web series music composer

| Year | Title | Platform | Notes |
| 2020 | REJCTX | ZEE5 | Theme Music |
| 2021 | Dhindora | YouTube | Original track |
| 2022 | London Files | Voot | Original & Background Score |
| 2023 | Psuedo Saiyaan | Amazon Prime Video | Cinema Marte Dum Tak |
| 2023 | Star Wars: Visions | Disney+ | Episode: "The Bandits of Golak" |

### TV Show

* 2012 - MTV Sound Trippin