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Singer Akhil Sachdeva never thought that a chance meeting with director Shashank Khaitan at a friend’s place in Delhi would open his doors to Bollywood for him. The Delhi-based singer, who is making Bollywood debut with the song Humsafar from ‘Badrinath Ki Dulhania’, happened to meet Shashank, the director of the film, at his friend Huma Qureshi’s Eid dinner. “It was two years ago when Huma introduced me to Shashank. She told him that I was a singer and a composer,” says Akhil and adds, “He asked me if I could sing some original composition, and I sang ‘Humsafar’, the song that I had composed three years ago. He liked it and told me, ‘Yeh gaana main le raha hun, I am writing a script and I want this song.’ After a year, a day after Karan Johar decided to produce the film, Shashank kept his promise and called me, and that is how I got my big break.”
Akhil, a childhood friend of Huma Qureshi, tells us, “Huma and I were classmates at Rai Public School, Lodhi Road. She was the head girl and I was the head boy of the school. We have been very good friends since then.”
