Ajit Singh Varman was born on March 26, 1947, and died on December 15, 2016.

He was sometimes also credited as Ajit Verman.

He was an Indian film music composer.

Ajit began 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.

Varman work on Govind Nihalani’s Aakrosh (1980), Vijeta (1982) and Ardh Satya (1983), besides two of Mahesh Bhatt’s early classics Saaransh (1984) and Janam (1985).

Ajit Varman passed away at 69 years old.