Sandeep Chowta, is the Chennai-based young and talented music director with a wide and eclectic range of music that is gradually becoming a rage and breaking new barriers in Mumbai’s filmdom. With his music in films ‘Jungle’ and ‘Mast’ wafting through the speakers nationwide, whiffs of freshness were blown into the world of film-music, which otherwise reeked of the same old stale sounds. His family has been in the restaurant business.But the composer due to his intense inclination and love to music was not keen on toeing the family business and decided to make a career in music.
Music has always been a part of Sandeep’s life. When he was studying in school, he got introduced to western music when he accidentally stumbled upon his father’s music collection. Later on, he developed a liking for jazz, which inspired him to form a band called ‘Pulse’ with Sivamani and Suresh Thomas. And when their album ‘Reaching Out’ won the Channel V Viewer’s Choice Award it was clear that people had begun to reckon Chowta’s talent as a composer.
Chowta was picked by Nagarjuna to give the music score for ‘Chandralekha’, which became a super hit. Later Ramgopal Varma chose him to give the background score for Satya and there was no looking back for Sandeep. Today, Sandeep is better known as a product of Ram Gopal Varma's camp.Chowta has done the complete sound track of Ram Gopal Varma's Mast, Kaun. He has also given the complete soundtracks for Bollywood Holywood, Dum, Boom and more recently Samay. Earlier he did the background scores for Ashoka, Vaastav and Shool.
More cosmic than cosmetic, the sound of the Sandeep Chowta is the sound of the future. Sandeep's music cuts across global segregations and speaks to every generation and community. He got the big banners assignments in abundance and then onwards geared up for future projects. Recently he composed a track for channel V in which he experimented with rave techno music by deftly blending exotic sounds with some Geogorian chants. So impressive was the final product that now Channel V wants to put an album of such music on the Internet.
Sandeep has also done the background music for Dharmesh Darshan’s film Dhadkan that turned out to be a hit. Followed were films Dum starring Vivek Oberoi and Diya Mirza , Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya(2001) whose music sizzled with numbers like 'Kambakth Ishq'.He is keen to with lyricists Gulzar and Javed Akhtar. Right now Sandeep’s music is taking the standards of film music to new heights and newer domains.