The Elements x Ankit Shrestha. The Collab Nobody Saw Coming But Everyone Needed

Two of Nepal’s most exciting acts are coming together, and the backstory behind this collaboration is one worth knowing.

The Elements, one of Nepal’s most consistently interestingindiebands, have announced their upcoming single Sahara, and the feature credit on the track has everyone talking. The song will feature singer-songwriter Ankit Shrestha, a name that recently made headlines for a reason that most Nepali musicians could only dream of.

Earlier this year, Ankit Shrestha’s song Long Gone was featured in the Hollywood film Greenland 2: Migration, which was releasedworldwideon January 9, 2026, directed by Ric Roman Waugh and starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, and Roman Griffin Davis. The placement was all the more remarkable for its origin story. Ankit had uploaded the song as a lyrical video to his YouTube channel nearly nine years ago, where it had garnered around 28,000 views. A quiet, understated track sitting on the internet for nearly a decade, waiting to find its moment, and then a Hollywood production team found it and placed it in a major international release. The music supervisors described it as a beautiful track that perfectly captures the feeling of quiet calm, selected for a tender scene where the Garrity family is safely hidden in France, with Nathan showing Camille a map of the stars while John and Alison reminisce about their wedding day.

That is the kind of placement that changes a career. And now Ankit is stepping into a collaboration with The Elements, a three-member band consisting of Dipesh Gurung on percussion, Raunaq Singh Adhikari on guitar, and Ishan Raj Onta on vocals, a group that has built a devoted following of nearly 194,000 monthly Spotify listeners through a sound that sits comfortably at the intersection of indie folk andambientrock.

Together, the two acts bring complementary strengths to Sahara. The Elements bring texture, atmosphere, and a proven ability to craft songs that linger. Ankit brings a vocal andsongwritingsensibility that has now been validated on one of the biggest stages in global cinema. What the collaboration sounds like is still to be heard, but the ingredients are undeniably compelling.

Sahara does not yet have a confirmed release date, but with this much anticipation already building, it will not be long before the Nepali music community gets to find out.