Amar Haldipur

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Amar Haldipur is a celebrated Indian music director and composer who has worked in Bollywood and Punjabi cinema, including Shaheed-E-Mohabbat and Channa Sachi Muchi. His sons Siddharth Haldipur and Sangeet Haldipur are also making their mark in music. A skilled violinist and arranger, he wrote and arranged music for Lata Mangeshkar with the English Wren Orchestra at London's Albert Hall, and he has collaborated with Amitabh Bachchan on films like Shehanshah and Main Aazad Hoon. He arranged music for Asha Bhosle and Ghulam Ali’s album Meeraj-E-Gazal and helped popularize Ghazals in India through Pankaj Udhas’s hits. He has worked as an arranger for many legends, including Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Khayyam, Rajesh Roshan, Shankar-Jaikishan, Usha Khanna, Anu Malik, Nadeem-Shravan, Madan Mohan, Hridaynath Mangeshkar, and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, having arranged around 6000 songs.

Haldipur has performed violin solos worldwide in concerts with Lata Mangeshkar, Pankaj Udhas, and Kishore Kumar; his violin solo on Mohammad Rafi’s Dard-e-Dil from KARZ is considered a classic. He has composed and arranged background scores for nearly 150 films and once owned a recording studio with the late Jagjit Singh. He also created a symphony in Indian ragas with Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia and an English orchestra in England titled Krishna. He has produced Marathi and Bengali films, including the Bengali Ai Toh Jibon featuring Victor Banerjee, Moushumi Chatterjee, Moon Moon Sen, and Shoumitra Chatterjee. He acted in the Baba Saheb Ambedkar film (in English and Hindi) and has distributed Bhojpuri films.