Alokananda Dasgupta is a composer based in Mumbai, India. She is the daughter of poet and filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours in English Literature from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata. She was pursuing her Masters in English Literature at Calcutta University when she decided to follow her lifelong passion for music in Toronto, where she earned a Bachelor of Music with Honours in Theory and Composition from York University, where she has also guest-lectured.
Alokananda gravitated naturally towards film composition. Her appreciation for a diverse range of music led her to score National Award-winning Marathi films such as Shala and Fandry, and she was one of five composers selected for the Mumbai Composers Lab in 2013. She received the Prabhat Purashkar (2014) and the Sanskriti Kala Darshan Award (2012) for Best Background Score. Her work on her father’s films includes Anwar Ki Ajeeb Kissa, Tope, and Urojahaj.
In 2016, she was invited to Berlin to attend Berlinale Talents under the Music Composer & Sound Studio category and went on to compose the music and songs for the feature film Trapped. She later scored the Netflix Original Series Sacred Games (Seasons 1 & 2) in 2018 and 2019, winning the 2020 Filmfare OTT Award for Best Background Score (Series) for Sacred Games 2, which was also nominated for an International Emmy for Best Drama Series.
Her subsequent work spans acclaimed projects including AK vs AK (2020), Breathe (2020), Ajeeb Daastaan (2021), Puratawn (2022), Jubilee (2023), The Jengaburu Curse (2023), Chashma (2024), and Khauf (2025). She won her second Filmfare OTT Award for Best Background Score (Series) in 2024 for Jubilee. In 2022, she was named a BAFTA Breakthrough India Artist, supported by Netflix.