Vishal Mishra says he prefers to be known as a music composer rather than a singer. "I sing because I compose, and I compose so that apart from me, others can render the songs too. When you compose, you create [something]. Singing comes at the execution stage," he says.

A self-taught musician, Race 3 composer Mishra, who rendered the chartbuster, Rafta Rafta for the recently released, Yamla Pagala Deewana Phir Se, says this is his first attempt at recreating a classic.