Mohit Chauhan who completed 25-years of musical journey in Bollywood, which started with the release of his first musical album in 1998 ‘Boondein’, released his new solo musical album on 10 February in Delhi. This is Mohit Chauhan’s 5th studio album.
The album ‘Musafir’ has 10 songs. The first of the songs released on 10 February is a song called Duur. Duur is the first ever Indo-Mongolian music collaboration. The song is important as it comes at a time when India and Mongolia complete 69- years of their diplomatic and friendly relations.
‘Musafir’ the new Music Album released under Mohit Chauhan Music by Kiren Rijiju, Union Minister of Earth Sciences. Meenakshi Lekhi, Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture was the Guest of Honor.
Singer Mohit Chauhan said, “This song is a collaboration between me and a Mongolian artist, we both have sung this song. I am also a Cultural Envoy of Mongolia to India, so I got the opportunity to visit Mongolia and to meet the artists over there to that’s how I recorded the music. The song ‘Duur’ was shot in Himachal Pradesh. I think this is the first Cultural collaboration between India and Mongolia. And this is just the beginning, more songs will be coming soon.”
On Saturday, Mohit took to his Instagram account and shared a glimpse of the track ‘Duur’ and captioned it, “#Duur my first song from my new solo album #Musafir is out today!!!”
The song’s description reads, “Composed and produced by Mohit Chauhan is one of the 6 songs he has done with Mongolian artists. They will be released as singles over the next few months. The full album ‘Musafir’ will have a total of 10 songs.”
Other important dignitaries who attended the function are Jairam Thakur, Former Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh, H E Dambajavyn Ganbold, Ambassador Designate, Embassy of Mongolia and M P Singh, Former Ambassador of India to Mongolia, Govind Mohan, Secretary Ministry of Culture, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, President, ICCR, and Abhijit Halder, IBC DG.