The first stage
A four-year-old in Delhi climbs onto a stage and sings. Classical lessons begin at five, professional performances by six. A childhood tuned in the lineage of Pt. Vinayak Rao Patwardhan and Pt. S.K. Muley.
साधनाThe Journey
A child of four walked on stage.
He never really walked off.
Some careers are built. This one was remembered into being, a childhood of raagas, a corporate detour, and a return to the only thing that ever felt like home. What follows is that life, told along a single golden thread.
Not a performance, but a remembering.
Scroll, and watch the thread draw itself, from a four-year-old’s first stage to the weddings India watches.
Raagas over routine
A flourishing corporate career, left behind for guitar strings and raagas. The decision every artist talks about, and very few actually make.
Soulful Raaga is born
The premium wedding ensemble takes shape, with a songbook spanning five decades, from Jagjit Singh and Kishore Kumar to Atif and Arijit, carried into engagements, cocktails and receptions.
A date with the Divine
Date With Divine begins, the spiritual project that turns living rooms and grand halls into satsangs. Ten forms of bhajan sandhya grow out of it, from Mata Ki Chowki to Nirgun.
The first families call
Kumar Mangalam Birla’s gathering. The Ambani celebrations. The most-watched homes in India begin asking for the same voice, quietly, and then again and again.
The wedding India watched
Parineeti Chopra and Raghav Chadha take their pheras, sung and not recited. En-Chanting Pheras becomes the quiet signature of India’s most celebrated weddings.
The industry takes note
The Economic Times Wedding Leaders Award for Excellence in Musical Pheras. The theme of MX Player’s Two Great Masters. The craft becomes the standard.
The sandhya continues
7,37,000 seekers on YouTube. Fifteen-plus countries. And the last few seasons alone:
- The Akhilesh Yadav family’s wedding pheras at Saifai
- Komal Nahta’s son’s royal wedding, The Leela Palace Udaipur
- Stebin Ben & Nupur Sanon’s wedding rituals
गुरु-शिष्य परम्पराThe Lineage
Pt. Vinayak Rao Patwardhan✦Pt. S.K. Muley✦Ankit Batra
One voice, carried through a hundred years of teaching.
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Seekers on YouTube
2024
Wedding Leaders Award for Excellence in Musical Pheras · The Economic Times
2017
Youth Icon of the Year · IIA Icon Awards International
2017
Accomplished Artist in Custom Music Design
2016
Best Musical Concepts & Compositions
Invite this journey to your occasion
Bhajan sandhyas, pheras, celebration evenings and prayer meetings, in India and abroad.