Aditya Rikhari

Aditya Rikhari is a New Delhi singer-songwriter whose independent pop singles broke out of cover-culture YouTube into mainstream Hindi streaming in the early 2020s. He began releasing covers during the 2020 COVID period; early originals such as Kya Karein and Tu Rehti Hai built a first audience before Sahiba (2023) became a major viral breakthrough.

In 2024, Jaana Samjho Na was placed in the Bollywood film Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, marking a film-soundtrack entry, and he released the album Jaana the same year. He was nominated at the 70th Filmfare Awards in the Best Music Album conversation for Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 contributions, and in 2025 appeared as a mentor on Amazon MX Player’s I-Popstar—signaling a fast jump from bedroom indie to televised pop mentorship.

Rikhari’s lane is melodic Hindi indie pop rather than battle rap: intimate writing, playlist-friendly production, and a Delhi base that feeds national streaming. Apple Music lists him under Indian Pop with the locked artist id used for Discography enrich.

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Delhi indie pop in the 2020s often grows from cover culture into original singles that playlists treat as soft Hindi pop. Rikhari’s path—COVID-era covers, Sahiba breakthrough, Jaana album, film pickup, Filmfare-adjacent nomination talk, I-Popstar mentoring—is documented on Wikipedia and mirrored in Apple’s Indian Pop artist page. Discography records that arc without inventing weekly listener graphs. Enrich should surface Jaana-era and single rows. Single-select tagging keeps this slug clean when Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 soundtrack articles credit many writers.