Ishaan Chhabra
Ishaan Chhabra is a Los Angeles-based composer and music producer. A graduate of Berklee College of Music in electronic music production and sound design - his work spans feature films, documentaries, television, and branded commercials. He composed Budhia Singh: Born to Run (2016), which won the National Award for Best Children’s Film, and Hansal Mehta’s Omertà (2017), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. His work on HBO’s Momentum Generation (2018) earned a Sports Emmy nomination for Best Music Direction, and he co-composed the score for the Oscar-nominated documentary Writing With Fire (2021). He recently composed the score for the "Rice" episode of the Apple TV+ documentary series Omnivore (2024). In mainstream Hindi cinema, Ishaan scored the box-office hit Srikanth (2024), Imtiaz Ali’s Love Aaj Kal (2020), and Aanand L. Rai’s Raksha Bandhan (2022). His television credits include the acclaimed series Scam 2003 (Sony) and Dhootha (Amazon Prime Video). His commercial work includes campaigns for Intel, Hyundai, History Channel, Renault, Škoda, and 7UP. In 2023, Ishaan produced the widely acclaimed Vintage Bollywood sample library for Splice, with material from the library appearing in an Apple iPhone social media campaign. He was a finalist for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative (2016-17), mentored by Philip Glass, and his score for Scam 2003 won Best Soundtrack at the Talentrack Awards 2023. Earlier in his career, he worked as a sound designer for Boston-based Sonivox, creating commercially successful virtual instruments and sample libraries. Ishaan has also collaborated with Academy Award-winning composer A. R. Rahman as a music producer. His work with Mr. Rahman includes Disney’s Million Dollar Arm, DreamWorks’ The Hundred-Foot Journey, Majid Majidi’s Muhammad: The Messenger of God, Imagine Entertainment’s Pelé: Birth of a Legend, Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House, and several Hindi and Tamil film projects including Highway, Mom, Kochadaiiyaan, OK Kanmani, Tamasha, and Mohenjo Daro.
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Biography from IMDb.
- Composer
- 10 on MovieCove · 18 credits in all
Known for
What are Ishaan Chhabra's films like?
Across their 9 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Society.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 5
A split, not a type: Light 3 · Serious 0 · Dark 3
Grounded 6 · Stylized 0 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 4 · Intense 2
Steady 0 · Shifting 6 · Whiplash 0
A split, not a type: Straight-faced 5 · Some laughs 0 · Funny 1
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 5 · Relentless 0
Casual 2 · Engaged 4 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 1 · Affecting 3 · Heavy 2
Resolved 5 · Open-ended 1 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy3
- Bittersweet5
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Ishaan Chhabra's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 8 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (6).
Subscription and free streaming for Ishaan Chhabra's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
18 credits, 10 with a MovieCove page.
Spa(2026)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
The Diplomat(2025)
Midcredits score: 82nd percentile of all films
Omnivore(2024)
Midcredits score: 74th percentile of all shows
Srikanth(2024)
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Scam 2003: The Telgi Story (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all shows
Raksha Bandhan (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Dr. Arora (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Mahaveeryar (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
Hurdang(2022)
Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films
Love Aaj Kal(2020)
Midcredits score: 28th percentile of all films
The Kung Fu Master (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
She(2020)
Midcredits score: 23rd percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
Omertà (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all filmsPremapranthu (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Rachel (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 16 titles, 14 of them dated from 2018 to 2026.
Biggest box office
Love Aaj Kal (2020)
Highest rated
Srikanth (2024)
Most popular right now
Omnivore (2024)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Ishaan Chhabra's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 64th percentile, the median of all 7; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 54th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up3
- 50th to 74th2
- 25th to 49th4
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
3 of their 10 titles are Universally Loved.
- Universally Loved3
- Divisive2
- Crowd Pleaser2
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the sound and music 66/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles; fans 72, detractors 45. The element that speaks to their work as a composer.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Ishaan Chhabra's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 4 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Ishaan Chhabra work with?
People who share at least 2 of Ishaan Chhabra's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Bhushan Kumar shares the most, 3.
Writers
- Imtiaz AliShared titles: Love Aaj Kal (2020), She (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Imtiaz Ali
Actors
- Vijay VarmaShared titles: Hurdang (2022), She (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Vijay Varma
Cinematographers
- Pratham MehtaShared titles: Srikanth (2024), Indian Predator: The Diary of a Serial Killer (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Pratham Mehta
- Amit RoyShared titles: Love Aaj Kal (2020), She (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Amit Roy
Producers
- Bhushan KumarShared titles: The Diplomat (2025), Srikanth (2024), Hurdang (2022)See all 3 shared titles with Bhushan Kumar
- Krishan KumarShared titles: The Diplomat (2025), Srikanth (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Krishan Kumar
- Shiv ChananaShared titles: The Diplomat (2025), Hurdang (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Shiv Chanana
- Gayatri GulatiShared titles: She (2020), Budhia Singh: Born to Run (2016)See all 2 shared titles with Gayatri Gulati