Bhagirath Bhatt - The Sitar Expert

Bhagirath Bhatt is 29 years old now. And in his 15 years long career, Bhagirath has the merit of working with legendary Music Directors - A.R Rahman, Amit Trivedi, Shankar Mahadevan and many more. 

Bhagirath Bhatt - The Sitar Expert
Bhagirath Bhatt

Bhagirath Bhatt - The Sitar Expert from Mumbai is the magician of sitar of the current generation. He was born on 31st of May 1991 in Jamnagar, Gujarat to Pankajkumar Bhatt. 

Bhagirath's father is also a musician and his father himself was the first coach of Bhagirath who trained in tabla and vocals till the age of 8. Between the age of 8 to 13 he was trained by Shree Chetan Bhai Shashtri in Jamnagar only.

When he turned 13, Bhagirath moved to Mumbai for mastering the art under Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer till the age of 17. Ever since then he has continued to master the craft under Ustad Asad Khan Ji of Mewati Gharana.

The Sitar Expert is 29 years old now. And in his 15 years long career, Bhagirath has the merit of working with legendary Music Directors - A.R Rahman, Amit Trivedi, Shankar Mahadevan and many more. 

Talking about live shows, Bhagirath has done live shows all over the world. He has performed in USA, UK, Russia, Canada, UAE, Singapore, Thailand, Switzerland and the list goes very long!

Regarding his achievements, some of his achievements are -:

  • Bhagirath Bhatt is a graded radio artist
  • Approved Artist of ICCR
  • He has played for a few Bollywood movies like Padmaavat, Malaal
  • He has worked for many  South Indian and Gujarati Films.
  • Bhagirath has worked for AR Rahman, Amit Trivedi, Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Shreya Ghosal, PT. Enjoy Chakraborty,  Suresh Wadkar, Hariharan Ji etc
  • Bhagirath was the winner of the All India National Youth Fest 2009

Presence on Social Media & Youtube

The Sitar Expert is also displaying his talent on the Social Media and has a very good presence on the Social Media and Youtube. Bhagirath's Youtube Channel - "Bhagirath Bhatt" has gained 1,503,230 views and 14200+ subscribers till the date this article is being published. Talking about his Social Media, Bhagirath has close to 8100 followers on Facebook & Instagram combined, and is growing very fast on Instagram & Facebook. 

Bhagirath also uploads his music videos on Instagram regularly and gets good amount of views in each of his video. 

One must checkout his music videos to get their ears blessed by his super soothing music.