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Kakad, Prashant (Prashant Ashok), 1982-
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Prashant Ashok Kakad was born in Nasik, India, in 1982. His father was an officer in India's Air Force, but switched careers in the mid-1990s to become a police officer in Bombay. Prashant Kakad graduated from high school in Bombay in 1999, and then attended the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumbai. He came to the United States in 2003 to attend Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He earned a master of science degree in polymer science in 2006, and then worked for Intel in Hillsboro, Oregon. He left Intel in 2009 to pursue a career in music. In 2010, he founded Jai Ho! Dance Party and Bollywood Dreams Entertainment. In 2020, he and Snehal Bodke were married.