Shashwat Srivastava
Shashwat Srivastava (born 18 January 1980) is an Indian music composer, stage actor, singer, stage director and lecturer. Srivastava is based in New Delhi and has also worked with Wunderman as the creative director. He has composed numerous jingles for advertisements including yatra.com, INCredible India and Microsoft.
His latest work as a back ground score composer for the movie Shab , directed by Onir has received great reviews. It is due for release on 14 July 2017.
He co-founded Actor Factor Theatre Company in 2006. He has been acting, writing, directing and composing music for the stage ever since. He co-founded the band Folka Dots in 2014 to explore the urban folk music of India. Shashwat has written scores for several notable plays including Girish Karnad's Bali and Khudgudi being the recent ones.He has also composed scores for a number of critically acclaimed documentaries and short films.
Born and brought up in Lucknow he is oriented in traditional music of Awadh and is trained in Hindustani Classical music. He loves to collect and play stringed INSTRUMENTS from around the world.