Ganpath Gajraj Jadhav loved music… from a young age he loved playing the dhol.  He had rhythm in his blood, before him, his father Ganesh Gajraaj Jadhav had made the 11 day Ganesh Chaturthi festival their USP. His father, grandfather and great grandfather were “percussion” experts. Ganpath’s grandfather, Govindrao Gajraj Jadhav had started the company. Over the years, the Jadhav family were the go-to percussionists and band baaja people for all of Mumbai’s multi-cultural festival and auspicious days. Every community if they wanted to take  their prayers, their pandals, their processions and their religion to the streets, the gullies, or the byelanes, the Jadhav family were the best in the business. 

Ganpat was sure he wanted to simplify things — his father had been a body builder so banging a dhol non-stop for five six hours was no problem. He didn’t have the mindset or the muscle for this cardiovascular activity, plus he wanted to take his music to the city. He was a trained desi DJ, and like DJ Nas, he felt he was a Gully Boy —  a DJ who had come out of the slums.