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Shekhar Astitwa

Shekhar Astitwa is today a well-known name in the Hindi film and television industry. Born on 16 October 1972 in Gondia, Maharashtra, Shekhar Astitwa did his schooling in Balaghat, Madhya Pradesh. Your father late. Shri Wamanrao Gajbhiye was a social worker, and your mother late. Mrs. Indumati Gajbhiye was a teacher. You were inclined towards writing since your student days. In poetry writing, you represented your school many times at the district level, division level and state level. Shekhar Astitwa, who has been reciting poetry on stages since his teenage years, has given presentations on various stages along with veteran poets of the country. Your works have been published in various prestigious newspapers and magazines in India and abroad. Apart from Hindi, you have also written ghazals in Nepali language. Your two works in Nepali, "Seto Himal Mero" (Children's Ghazal Collection) and "Atitko Tyo Madhur Kahani" (Ghazal Collection) have been published respectively. Apart from this, your first Hindi song collection "Babuji Kehte The..." has been published recently. Shekhar Astitwa, who has a boisterous nature, made Mumbai his home after many years of nomadic life, and has been engaged in writing while living in Mumbai for the last two decades. You have worked for many years with stalwarts of the film industry like Shri Ravindra Jain, Dr. Ramanand Sagar, Hema Malini, Sooraj Barjatya, Rajkumar Hirani, Sanjay Dutt, Nishikant Kamat, Prem Sagar.Your songs have been sung by Asha Bhosle, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Sadhna Sargam, Shreya Ghoshal, Sunidhi Chauhan, Bhumi Trivedi, Vikram Montrose, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, Suresh Wadkar, Shankar Mahadevan, Sukhwinder Singh, Kailash Kher, Saroj Suman, Almost all the big singers of the film industry including Shaan, Javed Ali, Amit Mishra have lent their voices. Shekhar "Astitva" has till now written songs for more than 45 mega serials, dozens of albums and about a dozen films. The song "Kar Har Maidan Fateh" written by you in the film "Sanju" became very popular and was also nominated for the Filmfare Award. The song "Jai Shri Ram" written by you for the film "Ram Sethu" starring Akshay Kumar also became very popular. These days, the song "Har Har Mahadev" from your upcoming film "Oh My God 2" has also become very popular and is a topic of discussion among music lovers.