About:
Arko Pravo Mukherjee (Bengali: অর্ক প্রভ মুখার্জি. also known as Arko) is an Indian music composer, singer, songwriter working in the Bollywood film industry since 2012. Jism 2 was his debut film as a music composer and lyricist.
Arko Pravo Mukherjee was born on 19 May 1983 to Dr. Apurba Kumar Mukherjee and Mahasweta Mukherjee in Kolkata, West Bengal. He attended school at Don Bosco School, Park Circus, Kolkata. Arko graduated with MBBS in 2007 from Burdwan Medical College. He is a Gold Medalist in MBBS.[13] He completed his internship at Calcutta Medical College and then in 2008 he shifted to Mumbai to pursue a career in Bollywood film industry as a music director, singer and songwriter.
In 2012, Arko debuted as a music composer in Jism 2. He composed 4 songs for it. In 2014, he composed 2 songs for Yaariyan (2014 film) for which he earned a nomination of Filmfare Award for Best Music Director along with Pritam, Mithoon, Yo Yo Honey Singh & Anupam Amod.In the same year, he composed songs for Hate Story 2, Tamanchey & The Shaukeens. In 2015, he composed for Kuch Kuch Locha Hai, Bhaag Johnny, Jazbaa & a single. In 2016, he composed a son for Kapoor & Sons & Baar Baar Dekho. He also composed 2 songs for Rustom (film). He earned another nomination of Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for Kapoor & Sons along with Amaal Mallik, Badshah, Tanishk Bagchi, Benny Dayal & Nucleya.In 2017, he composed for Sweetiee Weds NRI, Dobaara: See Your Evil, Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana, Bareilly Ki Barfi & a single titled 'Aainda'. He received his third nomination of Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for Bareilly Ki Barfi along with Tanishk Bagchi, Samira Koppikar, Vayu & Sameer Uddin. He also earned a nomination of Filmfare Award for Best Lyrics for the same film. In 2018, Arko composed a song for Hate Story 4. He also composed a song for Baaghi 2. He will compose for Gold.
Arko Pravo Mukherjee rendered his voice as the playback singer for the first time in 'Saathi Re' for Kapoor & Sons[30] following Rustom , Baar Baar Dekho, Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana , Tum Bin II, Sweetiee Weds NRI, Dobaara: See Your Evil, Bareilly Ki Barfi, Daas Dev & a single titled 'Aainda'.
Discography
Year Film Name Song Singer(s) Music Director Lyricist Director Producer Language
2012 Jism 2 [18] Abhi Abhi (Male) KK Arko Pravo Mukherjee Arko Pravo Mukherjee
Manish Makhija Pooja Bhatt Pooja Bhatt,
Dino Morea Hindi
Yeh Jism Hai Toh Kya [19] Ali Azmat
Maula
Abhi Abhi (Duet) KK, Akriti Kakar, Shreya Ghoshal
2014 Yaariyan [20] Allah Waariyan Shafqat Amanat Ali Arko Pravo Mukherjee Divya Khosla Kumar Bhushan Kumar,
Krishan Kumar
Zor Lagaake Haisha Vishal Dadlani Irshad Kamil
Hate Story 2 Aaj Phir Tumpe Pyaar Aaya Hai Arijit Singh, Samira Koppikar Aziz Qaisi and Arko Pravo Mukherjee Vishal Pandya Bhushan Kumar,
Vikram Bhatt
Tamanchey Dildara Sonu Nigam Arko Pravo Mukherjee Navneet Behal Suryaveer Singh Bhullar
The Shaukeens [21] Meherbani [22][23] Jubin Nautiyal Abhishek Sharma Ashvin Varde
Murad Khetani
Akshay Kumar
Trilogic Digital Media Ltd
2015 Kuch Kuch Locha Hai Pani Wala Dance Ikka Singh, Shraddha Pandit Arko Pravo Mukherjee,
Ikka Singh Devang Dholakia Mukesh Purohit,K K Agarwal
Bhaag Johnny Iss Qadar Pyar Hai [24] Ankit Tiwari Arko Pravo Mukherjee,
Sajid–Wajid Arko Pravo Mukherjee,
Faaiz Anwar Shivam Nair Bhushan Kumar,
Krishan Kumar,
Vikram Bhatt
Jazbaa Kahaaniya [25] Nilofer Wani Arko Pravo Mukherjee Arko Pravo Mukherjee Sanjay Gupta Sanjay Gupta,
Aishwarya Rai,
Anuradha Gupta
Nittin Keni,
Akash Chawla,
Sachin R. Joshi,
Raina Sachin R. Joshi
Jaane Tere Shehar Vipin Aneja
2016 Kapoor & Sons [26][27] Saathi Rey Arko Pravo Mukherjee [28] Manoj Muntashir Shakun Batra Hiroo Yash Johar
Karan Johar
Apoorva Mehta
Rustom Tere Sang Yaara Atif Aslam [29] Tinu Suresh Desai Neeraj Pandey,Aruna Bhatia
Nittin Keni, Akash Chawla
Virender Arora, Ishwar Kapoor
Shital Bhatia
Tere Bin Yaara Arko Pravo Mukherjee
Baar Baar Dekho Dariya Arko Pravo Mukherjee Nitya Mehra Karan Johar,Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar
Tum Bin II Dil Nawaziyaan Ankit Tiwari Manoj Muntashir Anubhav Sinha Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar, Anubhav Sinha
2017 Laali Ki Shaadi Mein Laaddoo Deewana Rishta Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Ankit Tiwari Arko Pravo Mukherjee Ghulam Mohd Khavar Manish Harishankar TP Aggarwal, Rahul Aggarwal
Dobaara: See Your Evil Kaari Kaari Arko Pravo Mukherjee, Asees Kaur Arko Pravo Mukherjee Prawaal Raman Prawaal Raman, Ishan Saksena, Vikram Khakhar, Sunil Shah
Humdard Jyotica Tangri
Sweetiee Weds NRI O Saathiya Armaan Malik, Prakriti Kakar, Arko Pravo Mukherjee Hasnain Hyderabadwala Dhaval Patel,Tariq Mohammad,Sada S Bhuvad,Cyrus F Dastur
Bareilly Ki Barfi Nazm Nazm Arko Pravo Mukherjee Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari Vineet Jain, Renu Ravi Chopra
Shaadi Mein Zaroor Aana Jogi Yasser Desai, Aakanksha Sharma Ratnaa Sinha Zee Music Company
Jogi (Male) Shafqat Amanat Ali
Jogi (Female) Akanksha Sharma
2018 Hate Story 4 Boond Boond Jubin Nautiyal, Neeti Mohan Manoj Muntashir Vishal Pandya T-Series Films
Baaghi 2 O Saathi Atif Aslam, Payal Dev Arko Pravo Mukherjee Ahmed Khan Sajid Nadiadwala
Daas Dev Rangdaari Arko Pravo Mukherjee & Navraj Hans Arko Pravo Mukherjee & Munir Niazi Sudhir Mishra
Gold TBA TBA TBA Reema Kagti Ritesh Sidhwani, Farhan Akhtar.
Nominations
Best Debut Music 2012 - Stardust (Jism 2)
Best Debut Lyrics 2012 - Stardust (Jism 2)
Best Sufi song 2012 - GIMA
Best debut Music Director 2013 - GIMA
Best Lyrics 2013 - GIMA
Best Music 2014 for Yaariyan - nominated at Filmfare Awards, IIFA awards, Screen Awards etc.