Years active 1992 – present Name Rakesh Tripathi | Role Lyricist | |
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Born 14 November 1970 (age 53) ( 1970-11-14 ) Dumdum Cantonment, Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, India Occupation Writer, lyricist, director | ||
Rakesh Tripathi or Rakesh Kumar Tripathi (his full name) (Hindi: राकेश त्रिपाठी) born on 14 November 1970, is a noted screenwriter, lyricist and director based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Career
He started his career as a theater activist with a group theatre "Rangakarmee". He worked as a full-time repertory member, received scholarship from Ministry of Culture, India as a repertory member of the group. He spent eight years under guidance of Smt. Usha Ganguly, a recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award. He worked there as an actor, writer as well as a back stage worker. He acted in plays like Rudali (based on a story by Mahasweta Devi), Court Martial (written by Swadesh Deepak), Lokkatha ( a play by Ratnakar Matkari), Mahabhoj (written by Mannu Bhandari), Holi (a play by Mahesh Elkunchuwar), Khoj (written by Usha Ganguly), Maiyyat, Tamasha-dar-Tamasha, Matkaa etc. He, along with the troupe, visited and performed in various cities of the country as well as abroad.
In the year 2000, He went to Mumbai, city of dreams and opportunities to explore new horizons. He worked with 'Nimbus Television' for a short tenure and later wrote several ad films for several products. He came back to his hometown, Kolkata in 2002 to finish a project and since then he is living in Kolkata.
He has written more than ten television serials for different TV channels, worked as an assistant/associate director, and written about 500 songs for films, TV serials. He has also many ad films and jingles to his contribution. He has written dialog and lyrics for a Bhojpuri film, Pistol-ego prem kahani(2009) directed by Rakesh Kumar (who later on directed several popular TV daily soaps) and a Hindi feature film Gumshuda (2010), directed by national award winner director Mr Ashoke Viswanathan, featuring Rajit Kapur, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Simone Singh, Raj Zutshi And Victor Bannerjee in the Main Cast. Rakesh Tripathi had also penned songs for Gumshuda's music album, which was released by HMV saregama.
He wrote a Hindi song for a Bengali feature film titled 'Banobhumi' this was the only original soundtrack in the film and was treated as the theme song of the film.
Many Noted singers of Hindi and Bengali music field have sung songs written by Rakesh Tripathi, such as Sonu Nigaam, Sunidhi Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal, Javed Ali, Shaan, June Bannerjee, Vinod Rathore, Srikanto Acharya, Shubhomita, Raghav, Rupankar, Jojo, Acharya Sanjay Chakraborty etc. He has translated 10 Tagore songs in Hindi for a music album – "Ravikiran", which was released by 'Saregama' (HMV) in October 2010. The songs of this album were rearranged in a choir form by the maestro Kalyan Sen Barat.
He has been writing songs for different tableaux displayed at Rajpath, New Delhi during The Republic Day Parade on 26 January since 2015.
He has also written/translated and narrated more than a dozens of movies in Hindi language for different science museums and planetariums.