Amit Trivedi is a music director and singer in the Bollywood film industry, currently residing in Mumbai. He debuted in the film industry by composing music for the film, Aamir. He started playing the keyboard at an early age but began composing for several stage plays in English, Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati when he was 23-years old. During his college days, he was also a part of a band called OM. After this, he did a bit of advertising for ads like Airtel and McDonald's. Music provided by Amit Trivedi has always been different in perspective and tone. He often collaborated with Amitabh Bhattacharya, a famous lyricist who is known for his profound control of Urdu and Hindi as well as various other folk languages. Amit is known for his distinct edgy and rustic voice. In one of his conferences, he stated that he never underwent formal training in singing and sings what sounds great to him. Trivedi's music has a refined sense of instrumentation and follows a more varied range of orchestrated music. He often experiments with his music techniques, changing features of the musical tune concurrently in order to establish a different phase of soundtrack genre. He shot to fame in the Hindi film music scene with his critically acclaimed work in the more popular Dev D (2009), which earned him several accolades like the 2010 National Film Award for Best Music Direction.