Baba Sehgal is an Indian rapper, film composer, actor and playback singer, known for his works in Indipop, Telugu cinema, Bollywood and Tamil cinema. Brought up in Lucknow, he began his career in the mid-1990s. Baba Sehgal is a chemical engineering graduate from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani. He is credited as the first Indian rapper to jump on the Indipop bandwagon, and released an album which got frequent airplay on MTV India. Since then he has dominated the Indian rap scene with hits such as Thanda Thanda Paani (a remake of Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice),Manjula and Dil Dhadke