Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (born 1950) is an Hindustani classical music instrumentalist who plays the Mohan veena (slide guitar).
Mohan veena refers to either of two distinct plucked string instruments used in Indian classical music. The first of these was a mix of the sarod, veena and surbahar, developed in 1948 by Pandit Radhika Mohan Maitra.
The second instrument is a modified archtop Hawaiian guitar, created by Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, and is the instrument most commonly referred to by the name Mohan veena. It has between 19 and 21 strings in total: three to four melody and four to five drone strings strung from the peghead, and twelve sympathetic strings strung to the tuners mounted on the side of the neck. A gourd (tumba) is screwed into the back of the neck for improved sustain and resonance. It is held in the lap and played with a bar like a slide guitar.
Bhatt is best known for his Grammy award (1993) winning album A Meeting by the River with Ry Cooder.
He was awarded the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1998, Padma Shri in 2002 and Padma Bhushan in 2017.