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Lead singer of Bombay Vikings Neeraj Shridhar wants to do music for a Hindi film

Boy from Jalandhar, growing up in Stockholm, singing old Hindi film songs, but with English lyrics. That more or less sums up Neeraj Shridhar's life and work.

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