Nainita is one of the UK’s leading award winning composers for film & television, based in London, UK.

She has written many memorable scores for a multitude of film and TV projects, for broadcasters including the BBC, C4, ITV, C5, HBO, SKY, Discovery, PBS, Nat Geo and Smithsonian, as well as for most of the leading independent UK film companies, and has developed a reputation for producing music that is original, rich, inspiring and diverse.

Her most recent commissions include the feature documentary Musical ‘MUMBAI HIGH-THE MUSICAL first shown on the BBC and feature doc-drama THE CONFESSIONS OF THOMAS QUICK (BFI / Film4 / Picturehouse) for which she won the award for Best Original Composition: Feature Film Score Award at the Music+Sound Award UK 2016. Many of her projects have won or been nominated for numerous awards including OSCARS, BAFTAs, EMMYs and RTS Awards. Nainita has recently been nominated for an RTS Best Music Award 2014 for the Best Music for THE DAY KENNEDY DIED, The RTS Best Sound award went to Vinnie Jones: Russia’s Toughest (Nat Geo) for which she wrote the score and MUSIC+SOUND AWARD 2014 nomination for the acclaimed drama CHECKPOST.

She moves seamlessly between orchestral music and a multitude of styles fusing ethnic, sound design and contemporary music.

Nainita scored the Internationally acclaimed OSCAR nominated film LITTLE TERRORIST, which garnered her a Lucarnia Intl film music award. Other dramas include an eclectic score for the Emmy winning BBC Drama MAXWELL (David Suchet and Patricia Hodge) as well as the ITV1 drama TO KIDNAP A PRINCESS. Nainita has also worked on numerous feature films including LITTLE BUDDHA (Keanu Reeves, Bridget Fonda), BACKBEAT (Beatles Biopic), LESSONS OF DARKNESS (Werner Herzog), AUGUST (Anthony Hopkins) and HACKERS (Angelina Jolie) as well as contributing specialist music for GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Ethan Hawke, Gwyneth Paltrow) and scoring over 30 Feature Film Trailers (starring Maggie Cheung, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat and Jet Li).

Having forged an enviable reputation in Television, where her eclectic and versatile sound has contributed to a vast body of work, she has also sat on the juries for the RTS Awards, Baftas, Ivor Novellos and Emmys, and is frequently asked to give talks and masterclasses throughout the UK and Internationally (from South Africa to Copenhagen) including Sheffield Doc Fest.

Some credit highlights include: Feature  and flagship documentaries include THE CONFESSIONS OF THOMAS QUICK (BFI/Film4 / PICTURE HOUSE) the Bafta nominee and EMMY Winner CHILDREN OF BESLAN (HBO / BBC), STORYVILLE’S 444 Days (BBC), Bafta nominee 9/11-THE DAY THAT CHANGED THE WORLD (ITV1) and most recently the Bafta nominated THE DAY THAT KENNEDY DIED (ITV1 / Smithsonian)

Factual TV series such as THE MEKONG WITH SUE PERKINS (BBC) , STREET PATROL UK (BBC1), VINNIE JONES: RUSSIA’S TOUGHEST (Nat Geo), DINOSAUR BRITAIN (ITV), ROAD WARS (the long running ratings success series for Sky One) , BRITAINS BIGGEST ADVENTURES WITH BEAR GRYLLS (ITV) and JOHN BARROWMAN’S PET HOSPITAL (C4) Natural History including the new BBC NHU series TRIBES, PREDATORS & ME and INTO THE WILD with GORDON BUCHANAN, the BBC NHU award winning series WILD BATTLEFIELDS and numerous films for the NATURAL WORLD strand that have also been musically acclaimed at several Intl film festivals including Jackson Hole and Missoula.

History series include WHO WERE THE GREEKS (BBC2) series and ANCIENT GREEKS: THE GREATEST STAGE ON EARTH (BBC4)

Sound Design for Animation has garnered her the Normand Roger Prize for sound at the Annecy Film Festival for THE OCCASION.

Commercial and channel branding campaigns for companies include Foster’s Lager, Samsung Mobile phones and The Weather Channel, Dubai. Documentaries for various strands include Storyville, Cutting Edge, Dispatches, Exposure, Revealed, Under the Sun, Real Crime, Natural World, Wildlife on One, First Cut, Perspectives