Mumbai, India · Available worldwide
Jishan Ali Thobani
SingerMusic DirectorComposer
If you have heard an ad break in India, you have probably heard him. Two hundred and fifty campaigns on one side; on the other, devotional records his listeners play millions of times over.
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01 On screen
Pop Kaun
His first Bollywood credit. He wrote and composed the song for Farhad Samji’s Hotstar Specials comedy, with a cast of India’s best-loved comic actors.
- Role
- Composer & lyricist
- Song
- Saiyan Tore Ban Gaye Hain Bhaiyya Tore
- Directed by
- Farhad Samji
- Starring
- Kunal Kemmu · Saurabh Shukla · Johny Lever · Rajpal Yadav · Chunky Pandey · Nupur Sanon
- Released
- Hotstar Specials · 17 March 2023
Farhad Samji described the scene to him over a call. He wrote and composed the song in about two hours, sent it across as a voice note, and forgot about it until someone rang two months later asking for his KYC details so they could pay him. That was how he found out he was in the show.
02 The client list
A hundred brands
have borrowed his voice.
Banks, snack brands, cricket teams, a biryani chain. Most came to him for a jingle, and a few for an anthem.
03 Commercial work
The
Campaigns
Jingles, ad films and stadium anthems. He often wrote the words, composed the music and sang it himself. Nine are on the reel below.
01/09
04 His own releases
The Records
The other half of the work, released under his own name: devotional music and anthems, recorded with artists in the UAE, Europe, Canada and India.
05 Booking & enquiries
Tell him what
it should sound like.
- Email contact@sociallywood.com
- Phone +91 70212 13505
- Based in Mumbai, India