BRAJESH PANDEY – The Brain Behind Worlds Best Film Training Institute
Mumbai Film Academy. a film based training school, brain child of Brajesh Pandey, an ace sound designer who has recorded more than 2,500 songs in his 30 years career have been chartbusters of its era and won prestigious National and Filmfare awards.
As a sound engineer, Brajesh was associated with all the topmost singers and music directors from generation to generation like Shankar Jaikishen, Salil Chaudary, Kalyanji Anandji, R D Burman, Ravindra Jain, and Aadesh Shrivastav.
In the existing lot, Brajesh did recordings for Rajesh Roshan, Bappi Lahiri, Nadeem Shravan, Anu Malik, Uttam Singh, Viju Shah, Illaya Raja, Jatin Lalit, Shiv Hari, Anand Milind, Himesh Reshammiya, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, A R Rahman, Amar Utpal, Ram Laxman, Vishal Bharadwaj, Jagjit Singh, Ismail Darbar and Louis Banks.
The class A singers with whom Brajesh recorded tracks includes Kishore Kumar, Manna De, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Ghulam Ali, Pankaj Udhas, Jagjt Singh, Anuradh Paudwal, Suresh Wadkar, Gurdas Mann, Daler Mehndi, Vinod Rathod. Kavita Krisnamurthy, Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Hariharan and Shaan.
In his prolix successful career journey, Brajesh has worked with all the Movie Moghul’s producers-directors of Bollywood like Lt. B R Chopra, Raj Kapoor, Yash Chopra, Manmohan Desai, Prakash Mehra, Gulshan Rai and amongst the present ones Shyam Benegal, Ramesh Sippy, Rajeev Rai, Mani Ratnam, Nadiadwala, Priyadarshan, Subhash Ghai, Kundan Shah, Govind Nihalani, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Raj Kumar Hirani, Vinod Chopra, Sanjay Gupta and etal.
Among the list of lyrical brains with whom Brajesh got an golden opportunity to interact comprises Majrooh Sultanpuri, Anand Bakshi, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Anjaan, Indeevar, Dev Kohli, Amit Khanna, Prayag Raj, Sameer and Kiran Mishra.
After gaining a lot of knowledge in cinema making, Brajesh started an integral film institute called ‘ Mumbai Film Academy. In the year 2001, and since then it has trained and polished several artists, singers, music directors, writers, filmmakers and others in their respective departments.
Today, Mumbai Film Academy is deemed, one of the best film institutes, not only in India but, all over the world, where students from all the parts of India including people from Asian and up-countries come to get coaching for different courses such as Film Making, Direction, Cinematography, Acting, Video Editing, Script and Screenplay writing course, Electronic music production, Sound design and Audio Engineering, Voice and Anchoring, Dance and Aerobics, DI, Colour Grading, Film Distribution & Exhibition.
The best part of ‘Mumbai Film Academy’ is that the most successful professionals of Film & Television Media having vast experience from the Bollywood are coaching the young students and conducting practical classes in cinema making. To acquire the art, craft and technique of Cinema from the stalwarts and then imparting them with sincerity is a highly commendable job. Kudos to Brajesh Pandey and his highly efficient team for sharing and contributing their knowledge and experience to the upcoming generation if film makers. Keep it up…Brajesh Pandey….the founder of Mumbai Film Academy.