Tochi Raina is an India

India

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n singer. Best known as a playback singer

Playback singer

A playback singer is a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras, while the actual singer does not appear on screen.-South Asia:...

 in Hindi

Bollywood

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 films. His most notable works includes the song Ishq Waale Chor Hain for the Hindi

Hindi

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 movie Kya yahi sach hai with Vishal Khurana, Saibo for the Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

 movie Shor in the City

Shor in the City

Shor in the City is a 2011 Hindi film directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. starring Tusshar Kapoor, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Preeti Desai, Nikhil Dwivedi, Pitobash Tripathy, Sundeep Kishan, Girija Oak, Radhika Apte and Amit Mistry in the lead roles. The background score of the film was composed by...

 a duet with Shreya Ghosal

Shreya Ghosal

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, Maldar Ki Jeb for the movie Bhindi Baazaar Inc. and Aali Re for the movie No One Killed Jessica

No One Killed Jessica

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.

Early life

Born in Bihar

Bihar

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, he had his education at Nepal

Nepal

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 where his father, a government employee, was posted. He later moved to Delhi

Delhi

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 where he started learning music from Pandit Vinod Kumar, who is the disciple of Indian classical singer Bade Ghulam Ali Khan. Then he migrated to Mumbai

Mumbai

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 to make a career as a playback singer. Tochi got his first commercial break with Bulleshah in A Wednesday!

A Wednesday!

A Wednesday! is a 2008 Indian thriller drama film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey. It stars Anupam Kher and Naseeruddin Shah in the lead roles...

 in 2008.

List of songs

Released	Song	Album
2008	Bulle Shah	A Wednesday! A Wednesday! A Wednesday! is a 2008 Indian thriller drama film written and directed by Neeraj Pandey. It stars Anupam Kher and Naseeruddin Shah in the lead roles...
2010	Pardesi	Dev D Dev D Dev.D is a 2009 Indian romance film released on 6 February 2009. Written and directed by Anurag Kashyap, the film is a modern day take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic Bengali novel Devdas., previously adapted for the screen by P.C. Barua and Bimal Roy and more recently by Sanjay Leela...
2010	Iktara (Male Version)	Wake up Sid Wake up Sid Wake Up Sid is a 2009 Hindi romantic comedy film. It is directed by Ayan Mukerji, produced by Karan Johar's Dharma Productions, distributed by UTV Motion Pictures, and has visual effects by the Prime Focus Group...
2010	Gal Mitthi Mitthi	Aisha Aisha (film) - Tracklist :...
2011	Aali Re	No One Killed Jessica No One Killed Jessica No One Killed Jessica is a 2011 Bollywood film starring Rani Mukerji and Vidya Balan, produced by UTV Spotboy and directed by Raj Kumar Gupta, who directed the acclaimed film Aamir ....
2011	Mera Kaat Kaleja Dilli	No One Killed Jessica No One Killed Jessica No One Killed Jessica is a 2011 Bollywood film starring Rani Mukerji and Vidya Balan, produced by UTV Spotboy and directed by Raj Kumar Gupta, who directed the acclaimed film Aamir ....
2011	Saibo	Shor in the City Shor in the City Shor in the City is a 2011 Hindi film directed by Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. starring Tusshar Kapoor, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Preeti Desai, Nikhil Dwivedi, Pitobash Tripathy, Sundeep Kishan, Girija Oak, Radhika Apte and Amit Mistry in the lead roles. The background score of the film was composed by...
2011	Maaldaar Ki Jeb	Bhindi Baazaar Inc.
2011	Ishq Waale Chor Hain	Kya Yahi Sach Hai
2011	Mallo Malli	Mausam (2011 film) Mausam (2011 film) Mausam is a Bollywood romance film directed and written by first time director Pankaj Kapoor under the Vistaar Religare Film Fund banner. The film stars Shahid Kapoor opposite Sonam Kapoor in the lead roles....
2011	Shiv Ka Bajey Damroo	Jo Dooba So Paar