Hariharan has also acted in a Tamil film with Khushboo, titled Power of Women & also played cameo roles in the Tamil film Boys & the Malayalam film Millennium Stars. It won a string of awards including the MTV Indian Viewers' Choice award. This was the first Indian act to be featured on MTV Unplugged. The year 1996 was a career milestone he released the fusion album Colonial Cousins with Bombay-based composer/singer Leslie Lewis.

In 1998, Hariharan won the national award for the best playback singer for the soulful rendition of the song 'mere dushman mere bhai' from the Hindi movie Border, composed by Anu Malik. 'Uyire Uyire' is better known as 'Tu Hi Re' in its Hindi version. He was judged best male playback singer in the 1995 Tamil Nadu State Government Film Awards for his soulful rendition of the song 'Uyire Uyire' also by music director A.R Rahman in Maniratnam's Bombay (Hariharan sang the song with K.S. Hariharan entered the world of Tamil films in 1992 introduced by debutant music director A.R Rahman with the patriotic song 'Thamizha Thamizha' in Maniratnam's film Roja. Another outstanding ghazal album was 'Gulfam', which not only hit double platinum in sales but also fetched Hariharan the Diva Award for the Best Album of the Year in 1994. One of Hariharan's first ghazal albums was 'Abshaar-e-Ghazal' with Asha Bhonsle, which went gold in sales. In addition, he cut several successful ghazal albums, writing most of the scores himself. He sang for a number of TV serials (e.g., Junoon). At the start of his career, Hariharan did the concert circuit and also performed on TV. Hariharan : Hariharan, born 3 April 1955 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala) is an Indian playback singer in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu movies, an established ghazal singer, and one of the pioneers of Indian fusion music. Music for the film was given by Shiv-Hari. 'Yeh Lamhe' is the title song of the film sung by Hariharan. It is one of the few films that picked up The Best Film award at Filmfare despite its lacklustre business. Unfortunately, it was not a box-office success in India. The film was critically acclaimed, had exceptional music and did brilliant business in UK. 'Lamhe ' is a Bollywood film released in 1991, directed by Yash Chopra.

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