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Adi Agashé
Personal details
Born (1997-06-10) 10 June 1997 (age 28)
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Parent
EducationSymbiosis College of Arts, University of Pune (BA)
Occupation
Musical career
Also known asAdi Agashé
OriginPune, Maharashtra, India
Genres
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • guitar
  • piano
  • drums
Years active2014 – present
Websiteadiagashe.com

Aditya Mandar Agashe (né Chandrashekhar Mandar Agashe;[a] born 10 June 1997), better known by his stage name Adi Agashé,[b] is an Indian singer-songwriter and actor.

Biography

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Early life and education: 1997–2013

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Agashe was born on 10 June 1997 in Pune, to Mandar Agashe and Jiza Agashe (née Aparna Pandharkhar).[6] Through his father, Agashe is Chitpavan brahmin, and is a member of the aristocratic Agashe gharana of Mangdari, in Maharashtra.[7]

Agashe read psychology at the Symbiosis Society's college of arts beginning in 2015,[3] at the time an autonomous college under the University of Pune,[8] graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2018.[9]

Career beginnings in music and business: 2013–2022

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Beginning in 2013, Agashe became a member of the Nashville Songwriters Association,[3] and from 2014 to 2017, Agashe performed pop, country, and alternative music with Vineet Alurkar across various venues in Pune. Agashe usually performed covers of top 40 songs, or tributes to individual artists, like Ed Sheeran,[2][4] but frequently performed original music.[10][11]

Since June 2015, Agashe has served as the managing business consultant of digital marketing at Brihans Natural Products.[9] In September of that same year, he co-hosted a food festival with Renae Smith, a former contestant on the sixth series of MasterChef Australia.[12] That same year, Agashe appeared on a charity single with Dhanashree Ganatra, promoting environmentalism,[13] and further had a supporting role in the short film Veiled Lies directed by Shubh Deshpande.[14] By late 2015, Time Out had reported that Agashe had recorded as-yet unreleased music with John Mellencamp's drummer Dane Clarke.[10][11]

In June 2017, Agashe wrote op-eds to the Pune Mirror in support of the pride parades in Pune in advancing LGBTQ rights in India,[15] and again in August 2017, against the self harm and suicide promoted by the Blue Whale internet challenge.[16] In 2021, Agashe performed a cover version of "That's Life" by Frank Sinatra for a short film of the same name directed by Sparsh Banerjee.[17]

Career as an editor and writer: 2022–present

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In February 2022, the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. commissioned Nandan Phadnis with the translation of the 1992 biography authored by Shakuntala Karandikar on the life of Chandrashekhar Agashe from Marathi to English. Agashe served as the publication's editor.[18] In April that same year, the syndicate commissioned Phadnis with the translation of the 2002 festschrift honouring Dnyaneshwar Agashe; Agashe served as its compiler.[19][20]

In October 2022, the Brihans Group, the parent conglomerate of the syndicate and natural products company, additionally published a selection of essays and advertisements written by Chandrashekhar Agashe in the Kesari between 1950 and 1956, which were also edited by Agashe, who further authored additional commentary on the writings of his great-grandfather.[21] Later that same year, he would served as the editor for translations of Brihans Natural Products' information brochure in French and Dutch.[22]

In November 2023, Agashe, representing the Brihans Group, appeared as a co-presenter for the Filmfare OTT Award for Best Supporting Actor, presenting the award alongside Shruti Haasan and Akshara Haasan to winner Barun Sobti at the 2023 Filmfare OTT Awards.[23] In April 2025, he further authored a book on provenance on a sketch drawing by M. F. Husain depicting his father and Madhuri Dixit,[24][25] which was incorporated in the collections of the British Museum.[26]

Personal life

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Advocacy

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Agashe has supported LGBTQ rights in India,[15] and has spoken out against cyberbullying and online shaming.[16]

Ancestry

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Through his paternal grandfather, Agashe is a great-grandson of Chandrashekhar Agashe, a great-nephew of Panditrao Agashe and Shakuntala Karandikar, a nephew of Ashutosh and Sheetal Agashe,[27] of distant relation to Third Anglo-Maratha War general Bapu Gokhale,[28] musician Ashutosh Phatak,[29] historian Dinkar G. Kelkar, and scientist P. K. Kelkar.[30]

Through his paternal grandmother, Agashe is a great-great-nephew of B. M. Gogte,[31] a first cousin once removed to poet Rashmi Parekh, a descendant of the aristocratic Latey (Bhagwat) family, and of relation to Kokuyo Camlin head Dilip Dandekar, and academic Jyoti Gogte.[32]

Literary works

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As author

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  • Agashe, Aditya (21 April 2025). The Story behind the Sketch of Madhuri Dixit-Nene & Mandar Agashe by M.F. Husain. Introduction by Agashe, Ilina. Afterword by Gogte-Joshi, Aparna. London: |Brihans Group. OCLC 1527189981 – via National Art Library, V&A Museum.

As compiler

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As editor

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Filmography

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Short films

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Year Title Role Notes
2015 Veiled Lies Supporting role Short film
2021 That's Life Musical personnel Short film

Television

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Year Title Role Channel Notes
2023 2023 Filmfare OTT Awards Himself (presenter) Streaming media Television special

Notes

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  1. ^ IAST: Āditya Maṃdāra Āgāśe, né IAST: Candraśekhara Maṃdāra Āgāśe. Agashe bears his father's name (Mandar) as a middle name as per the patronymic Marathi naming conventions,[1] but he is generally referred to without his patronymic.[2][3][4]
  2. ^ Stylised with an acute accent (é) over the "e" in "Agashe"; Agashe is usually credited in business and publishing by his civil name (Aditya Agashe), and sometimes by his birth name (Chandrashekhar Agashe II) with the addition of a Roman numeral suffix (II) to differentiate him from his great-grandfather.[5] This article refers to him as Agashe for consistency.

References

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  1. ^ Agashe & Agashe 2006, p. 62, आगाशे, आदित्य मंदार.
  2. ^ a b Daiv, Yash (2 July 2017). "Shape of two". Pune Mirror. Pune. p. 30. Archived from the original on 30 August 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  3. ^ a b c Gaikwad, Tejaswini (22 June 2017). "In Conversation with Adi Agashé". Explore APE (Interview). Pune. Archived from the original on 6 February 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  4. ^ a b Mistry, Salonee (31 October 2015). "City celeb chat". The Golden Sparrow. Pune. p. 15. Archived from the original on 26 February 2023. Retrieved 14 April 2025 – via Issuu.
  5. ^ "Agashé, Adi (1997-.... ; auteur-compositeur-interprète)". Système universitaire de documentation (in French). Archived from the original on 27 November 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2025. Agashe, Aditya [Nom de personne] Nom à l'état civil ; Chandrashekhar Agashe II [Nom de personne] Nom de naissance.
  6. ^ Agashe & Agashe 2006, p. 62, आगाशे, आदित्य मंदार; आगाशे, मंदार ज्ञानेश्वर; जिजा (अपर्णा) पांढारकर.
  7. ^ Ranade, pp. 59–61, मांगदरी घराण्याचे इतिहास; Agashe & Agashe 2006, p. 52, मांगदरी घराणा.
  8. ^ "About". Symbiosis College of Arts & Commerce. Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  9. ^ a b Agashe 2022, p. 45, About the Editor.
  10. ^ a b "Adi Agashé... Live! 8th December, 8PM+". Time Out. Pune. 8 December 2015. Archived from the original on 28 November 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  11. ^ a b "Adi Agashé Live in Pune, Curve". Whats Hot. Pune. 1 January 2016. Archived from the original on 10 January 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  12. ^ "Learn to cook from the experts". Pune Times. Pune: The Times of India. 18 September 2015.
  13. ^ "The Earth Song (2015) by Dhanashree Ganatra, Ashutosh Joshi, Adi Agashé & Ishan Saraf". Record Club. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  14. ^ "Veiled Lies (2015)". Kinopoisk (in Russian). Retrieved 2 October 2025 – via Yandex.
  15. ^ a b "Do you think the Pune Pride Parade works to bring the issues of the local LGBT community to the fore?". Pune Mirror. Pune: The Times of India. 1 June 2017. Archived from the original on 14 April 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  16. ^ a b "Have you heard about the online Blue Whale Challenge? What are your thoughts on the phenomenon?". Pune Mirror. Pune: The Times of India. 3 August 2017. p. 10. Archived from the original on 14 April 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  17. ^ "That's Life". FilmFreeway. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  18. ^ "Source record - Vishwasta - the trustee : the life of industrialist Chandrashekhar Agashe". Bodleian Libraries. Oxford: University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 14 April 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025 – via Bodleian Libraries.
  19. ^ "Source record - Putra vishwastacha : a festschrift to Dnyaneshwar Agashe / edited by Sharatchandra Belvalkar, Taraprakash Vartak, & Ramesh Barve ; translated from Marathi into English by Nandan Phadnis ; compiled by Aditya Agashe". Cambridge University Library. Cambridge: University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 14 April 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025 – via Cambridge University Library.
  20. ^ "Contents of New arrival Sep.12 to 18, 2022". IIT Kanpur. P. K. Kelkar Library. Archived from the original on 14 April 2025. Retrieved 14 April 2025 – via P. K. Kelkar Library.
  21. ^ Wydanych Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej 2023, p. 96; Deutsche Nationalbibliografie 2024, p. 9.
  22. ^ Bibliographie de Belgique 2024, p. 71; Belgische Bibliografie 2024, p. 71.
  23. ^ Sharma, Devesh (December 2023). Pillai, Jitesh (ed.). "It's raining entertainment!". Filmfare. Vol. 72. p. 57. ISSN 0971-7277. RNI 1619/1957. Archived from the original on 17 February 2024. Retrieved 20 October 2022 – via Magzter.
  24. ^ Agashe 2025, pp. 1–6.
  25. ^ "Classification: N - Fine Arts: NC - Drawing, Design, Illustration / Library: ReCAP". Princeton University Library. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University. Archived from the original on 2 October 2025. Retrieved 2 October 2025 – via Princeton University.
  26. ^ "New items: ASIA". British Museum. London. 9 September 2025. Archived from the original on 9 September 2025. Retrieved 9 September 2025.
  27. ^ Agashe & Agashe 2006, p. 61–62.
  28. ^ Pathak 1978, p. 976.
  29. ^ Ranade 1982, p. 56.
  30. ^ Kelkar, Kelkar & Kelkar 1993, pp. 82, 89.
  31. ^ Kamath 1991, p. 10.
  32. ^ Gogaṭe Kulamaṇḍala 2006, p. 532.

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