MUMBAI: 9X Jhakaas, India’s first Marathi music channel from 9X Media presents their viewers with 9X Jhakaas Music Yatra Bhima Festival 2015. Part of 9X Jhakaas Music Yatra -the travelling musical platform, Bhima Festival will be aired on 7th March at 8 pm with a repeat on 8th March at 10 am and 8 pm.

Organised in Kolhapur every year Bhima Festival is known for providing a great platform to artists to showcase their talent. Marathi music fans are enthralled by the performances of well known artists from the Marathi film, television and music industry.

Commenting on the fest, Rohan Rane, VP and programming head of 9X Jhakaas said, “9X Jhakaas Music Yatra has been partnering with the Bhima Festival since the past 3 years. Every year we have been receiving very encouraging response and this year we had around 75,000 live audience enjoying the performances put together by 9X Jhakaas. We were overwhelmed by the turnout at the event and also by the positive feedback by the audience to our performance. We hope that the on-air episode will also resonate well with our viewers.”

The 9X Jhakaas Music Yatra Bhima festival 2015 includes performances by popular singers and actors like Mansi Naik, Pooja Sawant, Swapnil joshi, Sonali Kulkarni, Prarthana Behre, Prathmesh Parab among others and comedy by Shreya Bugade, Sagar Karande, and Atul Todankar

Hosted by Actor Pushkar Kshrotri and Bharat Ganeshpure  the show captures a melody of Marathi songs and dance performances. The highlight of the show was the song dedication made by popular singer Aadarsh Shinde to his dad  Anand Shinde by singing his legendary song 'Navin Popat ha lagla vithu vithu bolayla'. Also this was the very first time that the audiences of Kolhapur were presented with the melodious duet by Swapnil Joshi and Sonali Kulkarni who enthralled the visitors with their songs from the film Mitwa.