Sneha Khanwalkar

Sneha Khanwalkar (born April 28, 1983) is an Indian music director who works in Hindi films. She is best known for her score for the film, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! (2008), which won the National Film Award for the Best Popular Film, and also for Gangs of Wasseypur Part 1 & Part 2. She is currently nominated in Best Music Director category at 58th Filmfare Awards for Gangs of Wasseypur. Eventually, becoming only second women ever to gain a nomination and that too after 28 years. n 2004, she scored the movie The Hope, which competed at the Internationales Filmfest Emden in Germany. Meanwhile she also did the title track for Ruchi Narain's film, KAL – Yesterday and Tomorrow (2005), though her big break came when she composed music for the 2007 movie Go, produced by Ram Gopal Varma, and also got to compose a song for Sarkar Raj (2008). In 2008, she won accolades for her score for the film, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! for which she travelled through rural North India, especially Haryana, where she visited the Raagini music festival, while researching for films music, eventually she created a hit soundtrack, embellished with Haryanvi musical influences. She was the music director of Anurag Kashyap's celebrated movie Gangs of Wasseypur.