Mohit Chauhan of Silk Route is now trekking terrains like film music (Jab We Met) and Mission Ustaad, a music show with A.R.Rahman besides an album of APJ Abdul Kalam's poems He is best known as the lead vocalist of Silk Route. But now Mohit Chauhan has changed tracks to a hit song in Jab We Met and his being a part of the music show Mission Ustaad on the new channel 9x. The music is by A.R.Rahman. About the show, he says, "It's for a noble cause connected with the UN Millennium Campaign with special relevance to India. I will be singing original songs on it." And how does he feel about his hit film song?"Pritam called for Tum se hi in Jab We Met and though I have sung before in films, like in Rang De Basanti, Road and Main Meri Patni Aur Woh, this song has now made me a known entity, for which I have to thank him," says Mohit Mohit, like every singer in the country, wants to be a part of Hindi film playback. For someone with a `pop' background, he has a good roster of film assignments - Shyam Benegal's Mahaadev with Shantanu Moitra, Popcorn Entertainment's EMI starring Sanjay Dutt under a new music director, Rakeysh Mehra's Dilli 6 with A.R.Rahman and another interesting film with new music makers Rajendra-Shiv. And what happens to Silk Route, which gave the hit album Boondein with the chartbusting track Dooba dooba? Mohit admits that the group has disbanded and that the members are all following their individual careers. The singer-lyricist-composer admits that he is an untrained musician but says that he was "singing all the time" since childhood. "My influences were varied - from Kishore Kumar, R.D.Burman and Laxmikant-Pyarelal to A.R.Rahman, Paul Simon and classical music. And yes, folk," stresses Mohit. "Folk music is very important." [Advertisement] And if you thought that Mohit was one of those creative artistes who pay little importance to education, you would be wrong - though hailing from Nahan, a small-town next to Solan in Himachal Pradesh, Mohit completed his post-graduation in Geology from Kulu before he went towards full-time music. And now Mohit is perhaps trekking a distinguished path - he will sing and compose six songs and poems of none other than our ex-President APJ Abdul Kalam for an album titled, aptly, Kalam.
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