India, July 2 -- It is hard to imagine the songs of Aashiqui 2 without the voice of Arijit Singh. It has been over a decade since Tum Hi Ho and other songs from the soundtrack became chartbusters, but their craze hasn't died. The album gave Arijit his breakthrough in playback singing, turning him into the star he is today. However, it almost did not happen that way. The songs were originally recorded by KK, and Arijit was nowhere in the picture.

Aashiqui 2 was a spiritual successor to the 1991 superhit Aashiqui. Like the predecessor, the Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor-starrer was also heavy on its music. Director Mohit Suri says that he went with KK for the voice of Rahul Jaykar, Aditya's character.

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