Alokananda Dasgupta is a composer based in Mumbai, India. She is the daughter of the poet and filmmaker, Buddhadeb Dasgupta. As a classically trained pianist and piano teacher, Aloka gravitated naturally towards music composition for films. Her appreciation for a diverse range of music has led her to work in National award-winning Marathi films like ‘Shala’ and ‘Fandry’ which was one of five selected for the Mumbai Composers Lab for 2013. She received the Prabhat Purashkar and the Sanksriti Kala Darshan awards for the best background score in 2012 and 2014. She also composed music for the critically acclaimed Hindi film ‘B A Pass’ and contributed trailer music to the award-winning silent film, ‘The Labour of Love’. Her work on her father's films include – ‘Who’, ‘Treyodoshi’, ‘Anwar ka Ajeeb Kissa’ and ‘Tope’. In 2016 Alokananda was invited to Berlin to attend the Berlinale Talents under the category of Music Composer and Sound Studio, and provided music and songs for the feature film ‘Trapped’. The OTT repertoire for which Aloka has garnered the most recognition is Netflix’s first original Indian production – ‘Sacred Games’ – season 1 & 2 and Amazon Prime's original series ‘Breathe’. Aloka won the OTT Filmfare Award for Best Background Score (Series) for Sacred Games S02. Most recently Aloka scored and composed three tracks for another Netflix original directed by Vikramaditya Motwane titled “AK vs AK” – starring Anil Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap.