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Winners of WAVES 2025 – Theme Music Competition, Create in India Challenge announced

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Newdelhi:12/4/25:The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, in collaboration with the Indian Music Industry, today announced the winners of the Theme Music Competition, one of the 32 WAVES – Create in India Challenge series. The debut World Audio and Video Entertainment Summit (WAVES 2025) is scheduled to be held in Mumbai from 01st to 04th May 2025.

The competition, designed to spotlight India’s diverse musical talent, received hundreds of entries from across the country. A distinguished jury selected six winners after a rigorous evaluation of their originality, musicality, and alignment with the WAVES theme.

The jury for the competition included celebrated names from the Indian music industry: Somesh Kumar Mathur – Hindustani classical vocalist and mentor; Saandip Bakchu – Playback singer and Tollywood actor; Gulraj Singh – Composer and music producer in Bollywood.

Winners of the Theme Music Competition

Position Name(s) City State
Winner Kunal Kundu & Allapp Sardarh Kolkata West Bengal
1st Runner-Up Vivek Dubey Mumbai Maharashtra
2nd Runner-Up Bhavaganesh Thambiran Coimbatore Tamil Nadu
3rd Runner-Up Jayananthan R Chennai Tamil Nadu
4th Runner-Up Jayananthan R

(Second Composition)

 Chennai Tamil Nadu
5th Runner-Up Deep Rajesh Dabare Pune Maharashtra

About WAVES

The first World Audio Visual & Entertainment Summit (WAVES), a milestone event for the Media & Entertainment (M&E) sector, will be hosted by the Government of India in Mumbai, Maharashtra, from May 1 to 4, 2025.

Whether you’re an industry professional, investor, creator, or innovator, the Summit offers the ultimate global platform to connect, collaborate, innovate and contribute to the M&E landscape.

WAVES is set to magnify India’s creative strength, amplifying its position as a hub for content creation, intellectual property, and technological innovation. Industries and sectors in focus include Broadcasting, Print Media, Television, Radio, Films, Animation, Visual Effects, Gaming, Comics, Sound and Music, Advertising, Digital Media, Social Media Platforms, Generative AI, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), and Extended Reality (XR).

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Ashok Palit has completed his graduation from Upendranath College Soro, Balasore and post graduation from Utkal University in Odia Language and literture.. He has also carved out a niche for himself as a scribe of eminence after joining the profession in 1988. He is also an independent media production professional. He brings loads of experience to Advanced Media, Ashok Palit as a cineaste has been active in film criticism for over three decades. As a film society activist, he soared to eminence for his profound commitment to the art film appreciation and aesthetics of cinema. His mode of discourse is often erudite but always lucid and comprehensible marked by a perfect acumen so rare in the field. A film aesthete with an immense fond of critical sensibilities, he wrote about growth and development of odia cinema in New Indian Express, The Times of India, The Hindustan Times, The Asian Age and Screen. He has been working as an Editor for Cine Samaya from 2002-2004.. He had made solid contribution on cinema in many odia Dailies and weekly such as Samaj, Prajatantra, Dharatri, Samaya, Satabadi, and weekly Samaya.
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