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Mumbai, July 29 (IANS) Composer-singer Himesh Reshammiya, accompanied by Alisha Chinai, Abhijeet Sawant, Himani Kapoor, Vineet Singh and Udita Goswami, has left for his first 18-city international tour in the US and Canada.
Though he recently held a rousing concert in Dubai, for all practical purposes this tour titled "Aapka Suroor Live" will be his first world tour.
"We'll be covering 18 cities in approximately 45 days. It's taken my troupe and me six months of preparations. All I can promise at this stage is a spectacular concert in all the US and Canadian cities where we'll perform," Reshammiya told IANS before leaving on July 25 for the concerts.
This latest Bollywood concert-tour is expected to dispel the notion that the best times for Mumbai's entertainers out in the West are over.
According to reports filtering in from the venues, the interest in "Aapka Suroor Live" is far higher than for any of the concerts by Bollywood's big stars.
Reshammiya has quite a line-up of items. The tickets for the concerts for many US cities are already sold out.
"Our tour begins in Atlanta. I'll be singing live for one hour and 15 minutes. Vinit and Himani will sing my songs. We have Alisha, who would of course, be doing her 'Kajra re' number (which isn't mine), and then we have Udita Goswami to do item numbers."
Reshammiya has been working round the clock to take this time off for his first world tour.
"I planned it this way. I cleared my backlog of assignments. There are no major films released in September-October. When I return on Sep 3, I'll immediately resume my composing work. No one will suffer."
Reshammiya left in a flurry of excitement.
"I am feeling on top of the world. Performing live is a different high. The whole concert is planned on a very grand scale. I'll get to react with audiences in the US on a one-to-one basis."
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