And then did a 3-year Sound Engineering course at the Dr. Bhupen Hazarika Regional Government Film and Television Institute, Guwahati, Assam.

Following his education, he moved to Mumbai in 2002 and started working in films, initially, as a FX Foley tracklayer, dialogue cleaner, pre-mixer, production mixer, and sound editor.

[citation needed] Amrit Pritam has served on the Academic council of the film Studies dept.

He plans to someday set up a school dedicated to teaching the art of sound in cinema.

[8] Pritam worked closely with Resul Pookutty in Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle.