Mandar Agashe

Mandar Dnyaneshwar Agashe (IAST: Maṃdāra Jñāneśvara Āgāśe;[a] born 24 May 1969) is an Indian businessman, music director, and former musician.

[18] By December 1999, Agashe and his CEO Gautam Godse had partnered with California-based software company Questionable Ventures to develop musicurry.com,[19] and in January 2000 he invited Usha Mangeshkar to be the internet radio's creative consultant,[20] with Agashe announcing plans to upload the Mangeshkar family archives to the web service by February–March 2000.

[26] In 2006, Agashe launched "Anywhere Money" POS terminals under his company Saravatra Technologies to praise and support from politicians such as Shankarrao Gadakh in the Government of Maharashtra.

[27] In November 2008, Agashe was one of the directors implicated during Suvarna Sahakari Bank's ₹4.3 billion alleged scam case.

[34] Agashe was subsequently released on bail on 11 March,[35] but was kept under house arrest until the bank merger was resolved.

[36] In 2011, Agashe launched Sarvatra's POS terminals to Urban co-operative banks in the Solapur district.

[39][40] In 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Agashe announced he would consider making half of his employees work from home post-lockdown.

Previously in 1994, Agashe had recorded an English rock music album in Indianapolis, citing The Beatles as a major influence.

[49][3] In April 2016, he music directed a western pop album of Suresh Bhat's ghazals in Marathi with Asha Bhosle called 82.

Recorded during the COVID-19 lockdown in India, the album was produced by Vivek Paranjape and featured Aarya Ambekar, Dhanashree Deshpande-Ganatra, and Pranjali Barve as guest vocalists.

Agashe with his father Dnyaneshwar Agashe felicitating Lata Mangeshkar
Agashe with Asha Bhosle in April 2016