What makes this Bollywood publicist the top best music PR in India?
When it comes to music PR in India, one name rings a bell — Dale Bhagwagar. His Mumbai-based PR agency Dale Bhagwagar Media Group has been handling the PR for Bollywood and music industry personalities films and music albums for ages.
Dale has been in the PR business for two-and-a-half decades and has looked after some of the top best names in the music industry. In fact, he practically almost invented the music promotions segment at a time when entertainment publicists used to specialize only in film PR, or personal PR for celebrities.
His list of music PR clients have included Bhangra King Daler Mehndi, Ghazal King Pankaj Udhas, Bhajan Samrat Anup Jalota, Santoor Maestro Rahul Sharma, Melody Kings Nadeem-Shravan, princess of pop Anaida, Ghazal Queen Penaz Masani and Indi-pop rap star Style Bhai. Dale has also handled the media for around 5-6 music companies and around 80 music albums.
He has also handled the PR for music companies, music videos, singers, musicians, music albums, music composers, movies, songs and singles, for which he has promoted the music of top names such as Aadesh Shrivastava, Amit Trivedi, Anand Raj Anand, Anu Malik, Ashutosh Pathak-Dhruv Ghanekar, Babbu Maan, Bappi Lahiri, BC Smith, Brooklyn Shanti, Dr Zeus, Gurdas Maan, Hans Raj Hans, Himesh Reshammiya, Ila Arun, Ismail Darbar, Jagjit Singh, Jatin-Lalit, Jazzy B, John Stewart, Karthik Raja, Nadeem-Shravan, Nikhil Vinay, Nitin Raikwar, Rajesh Roshan, Ranjit Barot, Sandeep Chowta, Sanjeev Darshan, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Shantanu Moitra, Sukhwinder Singh, Talvin Singh, Tarali Sharma, Uttam Singh, Viju Shah, Vipin Mishra, Vishal-Shekhar and last but not the least, even Malika-e-Tarannum Noor Jehan, as well as the legendary music composer Naushad, who has been conferred the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and the Padma Bhushan.
Dale has also looked after the media promotions for the music company Tips Industries Limited, musical serials like Deewane To Deewane Hai (Zee TV) and Geet Gaataa Chul (Zee TV), Shilpa Shetty’s international musical Miss Bollywood, the US-based philanthropy musical group Flute Theory, SS Ballet Academy, as well as book PR for renowned journalist-cum-author Chaitanya Padukone’s book RD Burmania: Pancha Memoirs.
The publicist’s Bollywood list of clients have included actors such as Hrithik Roshan, Shilpa Shetty and Priyanka Chopra, along with PR for movies such as the Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Don, the Farhan Akhtar-starrer Rock On and the Hrithik Roshan-starrer Koi… Mil Gaya.
Dale is the only PR professional in the business who also doubles up as a spokesperson to all his PR clients in case they happen to fall into controversies. He has been quoted in national and international media, including platforms like CNN, BBC and The New York Times and is popularly known in media circles as Bollywood’s only PR guru.
We’d say, all this makes Bollywood publicist Dale Bhagwagar the top best music PR in India.