Indian singer and songwriter Neeraj Shrirdhar, born June 23, 1978 in Punjab,
first rose to fame as the lead singer of Bombay Vikings, a stylistically daring
group that formed in Sweden in 1994 that fused the old and new by serving up
modern and Europeanized versions of old Bollywood songs. In the mid 2000s he
began working steadily in Bollywood as a playback singer. He had a pair of huge
hits in 2006 with “Halke Halke” and “Bhagam Bhaag”, and he quickly became one of
the most celebrated and hardest working figures in his field. From 2008-2011 he
averaged over a song a month for B...