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Rohit Shakya

Music Producer/Composer

Rohit Shakya's career is built around the craft of giving images a sonic life. His public filmography identifies him as a music director, sound designer and background-score composer, with credits beginning in the mid-2010s and extending across a large run of Nepali features. Utsav, Hostel Returns, Chankhe Sankhe Pankhe, Kabaddi Kabaddi, Classic, Purano Dunga and Loot 2 sit in the earlier part of that record, showing how quickly film scoring became a major part of his work. The awards record currently supports nominations rather than wins, and that distinction matters. His background-score work has been nominated at NEFTA, Kamana and NFDC National Film Award records for films including Utsav, Purano Dunga, Jatra, Kri, Prasad and Saili. Those nominations place his contribution in a technical-craft lane where recognition often follows the emotional memory of a film: rhythm, atmosphere, tension, silence and the musical cues that help audiences feel the story without always noticing the machinery behind it. Shakya's wider creative identity reaches beyond cinema into independent music, electronic production and studio work. Public professional material connects him with violin study, formal sound-engineering education in Thailand, Fuzz Factory Productions and later creative work through SWAR. Recent film credits such as Mahapursh, Fulbari, Dimaag Kharaab, Mahajatra, Degree Maila M.A. 3rd Class, Mansara, Purna Bahadur Ko Sarangi, Aktor: Take One, Eklo-I and Lalibazar show that his scoring work remains current. His biography therefore belongs to a maker who treats sound as both technique and storytelling: a bridge between performance, studio discipline and Nepali screen emotion.