| Avadhoot Gupte | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Avadhoot Gupte |
| Origin | Bhor, Maharashtra, India |
| Genres | Indian music |
| Occupations | Musician, singer, producer, director, lyricist, TV presenter |
| Instruments | Vocal |
| Years active | 2002 onwards |
Avadhoot Gupte (Marathi: अवधूत गुप्ते) is a singer from Mumbai, India. His native place is Bhor, Maharashtra.
Sagarika Music launched him as a singer-cum-composer in Marathi album Paus. Then came the Indi-pop album Aika Dajiba for debutante female singer Vaishali Samant.
Avadhoot's career as a singer took off when he won the national level competition of TVS Saregama. Since then he has lent his voice to Hindi and Marathi songs. Avadhoot arranged a number of remixes albums.
His popular debut album came in 2003 and was titled Meri Madhubala.
His popular songs include:- 1) Bai bai manamoracha kasa pisara fulala. 2) Jai jai Maharashtra Mazha (guest appearance: Urmila Martondkar, Vivek Oberoi) 3) Dhipadi Dhipang 4) Nana nani mix 5) Jaljale
He is sometimes criticized for plagiarism. His most famous song 'Jai Jai Maharashtra Maza' is apparently based on the famous tune of 'Summer of 69' by Brian Adams.
He was one of the judges at a Marathi song competition "SA RE GA MA PA Little Champions" on Zee Marathi along with Vaishali Samant. The show was hosted by Pallavi Joshi. He is a singer who started off his singing career as a winner at Sa Re Ga Ma on Zee TV. He is a composer, Lyricist and has arranged music for some albums.
During his stint as a judge on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi L'il Champs he made it a point to use some extremely witty and catchy jargons to give constructive criticism to the young participants, so as not to run them down but instead encourage them. This was widely appreciated and his clever interpretation and treatment of participants soon caught attention with marathi viewers, who lauded his efforts.
He also produced and directed a Marathi film, 'Jhenda', which created a lot of controversy. 'Jhenda' depicts a feud between two cousins in rival political parties,inspired by the real-life feud between Raj Thackeray, chief of Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) and his cousin, Uddhav Thackeray,Executive President of Shiv Sena. Avdhoot Gupte however believes that it is more about the Marathi youth,with just a couple of characters in the movie representing Uddhav Thackeray and Raj Thackeray. The film was released in early 2010, in theatres across Maharashtra state.
He has recently moved to anchoring a talk show on Zee Marathi called "Khupte Tithe Gupte". Theme of the show is to invite two Marathi celebreties in the field of entertainment, politics, sports etc. and discuss about things that bother them.
In his second venture named 'Morya' he touched the subject of famous 'Ganesh Festival' in Mumbai. The movie was released on 19 August 2011. The movie mostly received positive response from critics as well as masses. The subject floats feud between two groups in chawl over Ganeshotsav.