My Compelling Story

Rohit-Sridhar is a professional singing duo based out of the finance capital of India, Mumbai. Rohit Raut is an Indian singer and the young Marathi music director. He was born on 18th November 1995 in Nagpur to Shyam and Madhavi Raut. He shifted to Latur when he was in third grade from Nagpur and completed his schooling from Shri Deshikendra High School. Currently, he is completing his graduation in BCom from Open University. Since his school days, Rohit started taking music classes from Pandit Japtap and Jagatkar for almost seven years. While learning music, he also participated in various interschool competitions. He then participated in Ashtavinayak competition, which was his first state level competition; however, he did not get selected in the first place, but then, he waited for another year and practised hard. In the following year, he won Ashtavinayak competition. Soon after that, he went for an audition for Zee TV’s Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champs. However, he never had planned to participate in any reality show as he has planned to visit Mumbai in 2014 to start his struggle, but destiny had planned something else for him. He was selected at the first place itself from Indore for Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Lil Champs Season 2. On the opening ceremony of Lil Champs 2, he sang ‘Dard-E-Disco’ which was loved by the audience. Though Rohit didn’t make it to the finals but he was one of the favourite contestants of that season. He evolved as the winner of the Mega Challenge, which also marked the 1000 episodes of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa.  After this mega success, people started recognising him as Lil Champ Rohit Raut. Rohit composed few of his own songs and approached music director, Pankaj Padghan. Padghan helped him to build his career as he offered him ‘Yara Yara’ song from Sanjay Jadhav’s movie, Duniyadari. From this movie, he learned a lot about studio techniques and got a chance to be a playback singer. After this, he received offers from various music labels.  He sang for the movies like ‘Rakhandar’ and ‘Gaav Thor Pudhari Chor’. Along with the movies, Rohit has also lent his voice for serials like Be Dune Daha and Ka Re Durava. Meanwhile, he got another offer from Sanjay Jadhav for his movie, Pyaar Vali Love Story, where he sang ‘Shutter Ka Talla’ along with Amitraj. In the end of 2014, he sang a romantic song along with Anandi Joshi for the movie, Candle Mar