---
name: "Neil Athale"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/neil-athale"
fi1m_id: "neil-athale"
imdb_id: "nm2367790"
tmdb_id: 2599935
roles: ["Composer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T19:20:18.399297+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Neil Athale

## Identity

Neil Athale

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/neil-athale
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** neil-athale
- **IMDb ID:** nm2367790
- **TMDB ID:** 2599935
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2367790/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2599935

Composer. Born in Yorkshire.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2367790/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2599935

## Biography

Neil Athale is a British Asian film and television composer and music supervisor. Born in Yorkshire, he moved to London at the age of 18 and began his career as a session guitarist before transitioning into songwriting, production and film scoring.

His breakthrough feature score was for *Wasteland* (also known as *The Rise*, 2012), which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Subsequent credits include *North v South* (2015), *Golden Years* (2016), *Gloves Off* (2017), *Strange but True* (2019) and *Twist* (2021). He composed and supervised the music for *Giant* (2026), a boxing biopic directed by his brother Rowan Athale and starring Pierce Brosnan and Amir El-Masry.

*Sources: neilathale.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Giant* (2026), Fi1m 55, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/giant.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Giant* (2026), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/giant.md)
- *Fully Realized Humans* (2020), Music Supervisor
- *Strange but True* (2019), Original Music Composer
- *Gloves Off* (2017), Original Music Composer
- *Golden Years* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *North v South* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *The Rise* (2012), Original Music Composer

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