That’s no longer a college decision, or a decision of what to study or anything. But, there is a time when you realize that you have to take the life’s decision. I then completed it and started working for Oracle. In engineering, computer science was the in thing, so I went for computer science. There is a group of 10 friends, and everybody is going in for engineering, and engineering was the in thing, so I went for engineering. Then, you take a lot of decisions based on what is happening around you. What happens is that in school, you have a lot of friends and you go on studying and you may be bright in your studies. SM : I did my software engineering as part of my academic activity. Then what made you to take up singing and composing music ? NT : You are a qualified software engineer. Shankar Mahadevan (SM) : Music is second to breathing, for me. Nikhil Taneja (NT) : How would you define music ? I caught up with him to chat about all this and much more ! And on top of it all, he is a qualified software engineer, who once worked for Oracle. He has also composed music for films like Dus, Dillagi and Mission : Kashmir.
He has got songs like Hindustani, Haseena Maan Jayegi, Bumbro and Dillagi under his belt. He was called a child prodigy when he started performing excellently with a Harmonium, though he had never seen one before. He has apparently song a song in ONE breath. He composes music with Ehsaan Noorani, and Loy. The guy who sets you thinking, ‘Can somebody be this good ?’ From classical music, to pop music, to film music to bhajans to international music. How it happened : Interview with Shankar Mahadevan About : Singer, One third of Music Director trio of Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
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