“It is deeply satisfying winning an international award that has been adjudged the best work from entries across the globe.” - Dhruv Ghanekar

An accomplished and celebrated musician, Dhruv Ghanekar is a name to be reckoned with in the world of music. In an in-depth interview with Sumita Chakraborty, the amazing Dhruv Ghanekar talks about his action packed musical journey, producing two songs for the Beatles Documentary, winning accolades and awards, working with music bests and more…

- Sumita Chakraborty

Dhruv Ghanekar, the super-talented music composer, producer, and guitarist from Mumbai is a musician par excellence. Recently, he won the award for ‘Best Music’ at the UK Asian Film Festival for his documentary film, ‘The Beatles and India’! Not only that, he has forged ahead with his work in the recently released Jimmy Nelson documentary film, Save Our Sentinels - his exceptional composition added telling layers to the visual storytelling. Not only that, he has also garnered rave reviews for the same from critics - winning him the Kyoorius Award for Best Music and the Best Music Award at the D&AD Awards London 2021.

This year has seen Dhruv scale even greater heights with three of his projects getting nominated at Cannes - The Jimmy Nelson film, The Fevicol Sofa Ad (It has won the Spikes Asia award for Best Music) and the Ad for Vaseline! Building on the what is turning out to be a very successful 2021 - Dhruv has a host of exciting projects in the pipeline. He’s composing for two major commercial films - Choona on Netflix and the Kangana Ranaut starrer Dhakkad that releases in 2022. …Read on as this exceptional musician talks about his musical journey and more.

Dhruv, you are a music composer, producer, and guitarist from Mumbai who has carved a niche for himself in the global and Indian arena, how has your musical journey of two decades been?