Breathless (Shankar Mahadevan album)

Breathless
Studio album by Shankar Mahadevan
Released	1998
Genre	Pop, Indian fusion
Length	41:01
Label	Saregama
Producer	Shankar Mahadevan

Breathless is the 1998 album that first made Indian singer-composer Shankar Mahadevan famous. The title track, "Breathless," is a steady stream of a song that goes on without a break, stanzas, verse or apparently even a pause for breath. The length of the part of the song which is 'breathless' is about six minutes. Mahadevan made the album in collaboration with Javed Akhtar, a reputed lyricist in the Indian music industry. Renu Desai was a model and appeared in the music video of Shankar Mahadevan's "Breathless".

The music album was a huge success, selling over 300,000 copies and topped all major music charts in India for about 10 straight weeks.

The music video of the title song "Breathless" was directed by Farhan Akhtar and his sister Zoya Akhtar This was the beginning of a long association, as Shankar, along with Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa (as Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy), went on to score music for all of the films directed by Farhan and Zoya Akhtar.

Both Shankar and Javed Akhtar later reunited to come out with "Breathless Reprise," a similar song whose story takes off from where "Breathless" ended.

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