User:Sarthakpadhy/sandbox

About
He is a pioneer in the odia music industry. He has been involved in producing odia original music for last 36 years and has produced more than 15,000 songs under “Sarthak music” label. Sarthak Music is the biggest regional music library in Eastern India today and commands over 80% market share in Odia music.

He has been entrepreneurial in uplifting music industry in Odisha in many ways. He was the first person to install a recording studio in Odisha and also the first to uplift Odia folk music to main stream. He was first to produce music videos in Odisha.

He started a music based TV channel in 2010. It was converted into a GEC which eventually went on to become no. 1 regional GEC in Odisha. He is also a prolific film producer and has produced 28 odia movies including many blockbusters. In 2017 he started 2 FM stations playing only odia song. Sarthak Music also runs the biggest odia digital music channel in Youtube today. He is also one of the directors of PDL.

Academic
He has completed his schooling from Puri.He has graduated in commerce from Ravenshaw university.

Professional Career
Sitaram Agarwal,chairman of this group is known to be one of Odia music’s biggest supporter.His company follows a policy to play Odia songs only and to make new and independent Odia songs daily.It proved as a game changer in uplifting new and independent songs with new generation artistes of Odisha. When he decided to play only Odia songs in his 2 FM stations,media industry was in a dilema but Agrawal proved them wrong & brought about independent songs with a new life.After his effort many young artistes have got established & proven themselves as saleable artists. [10] Agrawal parallelly started company's Youtube channels [11]where he premeired new song's video every day.Within a sort time whole Odisha emerged & music industry rejuvenated with hundreds of new songs releasing every day in You Tube.Now almost 10 independent songs are being released in those Youtube channels.This consumption of Odia music in digital space is being noticed by every national player & suddenly every digital platform started giving importance to the presence of Odia music on their platforms.As a result recently in a national music seminar arranged by 'All About Music'[12], Agrawal was invited as a panelist speaker , for the 1st time he represented Odia music on a national music seminar. [13]

Music
Sarthak Music has a subase of 15000 odia songs across all geners(folk,modern,bhajans).

Movies
Sitaram Agrawal has produced more then 28 films.. Mu eka tumara