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{{Infobox musical artist<br />
| name = Ajit Varman<br />
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| birth_name = Ajit Singh Varman<br />
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| birth_date = {{birth date |1947|3|26|df=y}}<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|12|15|1947|3|26|df=y}}<br />
| origin = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]<br />
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| occupation = [[Music Director]]<br />
| years_active = 1975- 2016<br />
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'''Ajit Singh Varman''' (26 March 1947 – 15 December 2016<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/composer-of-80s-melodies-varman-dead/articleshow/56012019.cms |title=Composer of '80s melodies Ajit Varman passes away |newspaper=[[Times of India]] |date=16 December 2016 }}</ref>), sometimes also credited as '''Ajit Verman''', was an Indian [[film score|film music]] [[composer]]. He started his career in the 1960s as a musician for the likes of [[Satyajit Ray]], [[Mrinal Sen]], [[Pankaj Mullick]] and [[Salil Chowdhury]] in Calcutta (now [[Kolkata]]) as well as [[Shankar Jaikishan]] and [[Laxmikant Pyarelal]] in the 1970s in Mumbai (then Bombay) till 1975 when he decided to make the transition to full-time music direction.<br />
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He worked on [[Govind Nihalani]]'s ''[[Aakrosh (1980 film)|Aakrosh]]'' (1980), ''[[Vijeta (1982 film)|Vijeta]]'' (1982) and ''[[Ardh Satya]]'' (1983), besides two of [[Mahesh Bhatt]]'s early classics ''[[Saaransh]]'' (1984) and ''[[Janam (1985 film)|Janam]]'' (1985).{{Sfn|Banerjee|2013|p=10}}{{Sfn|Limbacher|Wright|1991|p=179}}<br />
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==Filmography==<br />
* ''[[Aakrosh (1980 film)|Aakrosh]]'' (1980) <br />
* ''[[Vijeta (1982 film)|Vijeta]]'' (1982) <br />
* ''[[Ardh Satya]]'' (1983)<br />
* ''[[Saaransh]]'' (1984)<br />
* ''Misaal'' (1985)<br />
* ''[[Janam (1985 film)|Janam]]'' (1985, TV Movie)<br />
* ''[[Andha Yudh]]'' (1987)<br />
* ''[[Karm Yodha]]'' (1992)<br />
* ''[[Imtihaan (TV show)|Imtihaan]]'' (1995, TV show)<br />
* Mohini (1995, Background Score)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Bibliography==<br />
* {{cite book|last1=Limbacher|first1=James L.|last2=Wright|first2=H. Stephen|title=Keeping score: film and television music, 1980-1988|url=https://archive.org/details/keepingscorefilm00limb|url-access=registration|year= 1991|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-2453-9}}<br />
* {{cite book|last=Banerjee|first=Srivastava|title=One Hundred Indian Feature Films: An Annotated Filmography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9RPeAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10|year= 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-84098-3}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb name|0894336}}<br />
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[[Category:1947 births]]<br />
[[Category:2016 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Musicians from Kolkata]]<br />
[[Category:Hindi film score composers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian male film score composers]]<br />
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