A South Asian wedding is not one event — it's a multi-day, multi-ceremony celebration of culture, family, and tradition. DJ Sohbash has performed every Indian wedding ceremony over 3,000+ weddings across 25+ years, bringing deep musical knowledge and live crowd intuition to each event in your wedding weekend in Loews Chicago Downtown.
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Mehndi Ceremony
Where it all begins: the Mehndi. The bride is surrounded by her closest people while intricate henna patterns take shape. DJ Sohbash's playlist follows that same arc — soft melodic Bollywood early, building into energetic group dance numbers as the energy lifts. Sufi ballads, romantic classics, and surprise crowd-pleasers thread through the whole afternoon.
Bollywood · Sufi · Romantic Classics · Garba
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Haldi Ceremony
Turmeric, family, laughter, music — the Haldi is unfiltered celebration. DJ Sohbash arrives with playful, high-energy tracks that fit this vibrant pre-wedding ritual perfectly: folk songs, regional classics, the kind of music that pulls grandmothers and college-age cousins onto the same dance floor. His Haldi work is well known in South Asian wedding circles.
Punjabi Folk · Bollywood · Bhangra · Regional Classics
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Garba & Dandiya Night
Many Gujarati and multicultural Indian wedding weekends are built around Garba/Dandiya Night, and DJ Sohbash has made it one of his deepest specialties. Traditional raas, modern fusion Garba, devotional-to-celebratory transitions executed seamlessly — and the kind of crowd-reading honed over 3,000+ Indian weddings that keeps the floor spinning for hours without a dip.
Traditional Garba · Dandiya Raas · Fusion Garba · Navratri Classics
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Sangeet Night
Sangeet night is what most clients later describe as the highlight of the wedding weekend, and DJ Sohbash's role in it is what they remember. Once the family performances and skits finish, he runs a set built specifically for that family — multi-era Bollywood, Bhangra for the Punjabi uncles, fusion EDM drops for the younger guests, and the kind of seamless crowd reading that keeps every generation dancing until midnight.
Bollywood · Bhangra · EDM Fusion · Hip-Hop Mashups · Regional Hits
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Baraat Procession
The Baraat is the groom's grand entrance — and DJ Sohbash has orchestrated over 3,000+ of them. Whether it's a horse-led Baraat through the streets of Loews Chicago Downtown, a dhol-driven procession through a luxury hotel lobby, or an arrival choreographed to a specific Bollywood anthem, DJ Sohbash coordinates every beat, every transition, and every crowd moment to make the groom's arrival the most unforgettable five minutes of the weekend. The Baraat is DJ Sohbash's signature — and every single one is different.
Bollywood Anthems · Bhangra · Dhol Fusion · Custom Groom Entrance
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Wedding Reception
The Reception is where the entire wedding weekend resolves — and DJ Sohbash treats it that way. Guests routinely describe his closing performances as transcendent. The arc is deliberate: cocktail hour ambiance, first dance coordination, parent dances, then the main reception set moving from family classics through floor-filling Bollywood into a Bhangra finale that empties every chair. After 3,000+ Indian wedding Receptions, every one ends the same — standing ovation, full floor, nobody wanting to leave.
Bollywood · Bhangra · Garba · Western Hits · EDM · Closing Anthems