Mithoon started learning music at the young age of eleven. He comes from a family of celebrated musicians.
In the very beginning of his career stream at the age of 16, he wanted to be a concert pianist but nevertheless later decided to be a music composer for films and started working towards this determined goal.
His first assignment for music production was to recreate Woh Lamhe Woh Baatien, which truly changed the entire phase of Bollywood music in 2005.
In 2006 his first film as an independent music composer came around, Bas Ek Pal was an award winning score; he won his first award for the song Tere Bin from the film Bas Ek Pal.
Atif Aslam got his first hit through Mithoon, the Indian audience accepted him with open arms. Mithoon followed this up with the sound track from the movie Anwar, which was unanimously declared to be an awesome soundtrack and quite impactful music for the decade.
Songs like Maula Mere and Tohse Naina Lage have been universally accepted as gems embedded in the history of Indian film music.
These accomplishments were followed on by some other events; he went further up his career peak and signed his full fledged movie scope Emraan Hashmi starrer The Train-Some line should never be crossed and played the part of the playback singer as well. Records claim that this movie remained at the top of the charts for months, songs like Woh Ajnabee and Zindagi ne Zindagi bhar gam diye played on all radio stations more than FIVE times a day, both these songs were sung by Mithoon.
After which the music of the movie Aggar came about, which was hugely accepted by the listeners and songs like Ke bin Tere and Paas aaya kyu became quite popular.
Right after that Mithoon did a guest composition for Atif Aslam’s first Indi-Pop album Doorie, the song that was composed and produced by Mithoon was Kuch is Tarah and it completely changed Atif’s image as a vocalist. The song established him as an able vocalist and is still considered to be one of his best songs.
Mithoon did the music for the National award winner film director Rahul Dholakia’s much hyped Lamhaa, the film which starred Sanjay Dutt & Bipasha Basu along with all its controversies is still known for its music. The audio soundtrack got a 5 star review and the song Madno has etched its place in everyone’s heart and mind as one of the best love ballads.
Next, he did the music for the super hit film Murder 2 which had two exceptional songs from him, Phir Mohabbat & Aye Khuda. Times of India even declared Phir Mohabbat as the second best love song of the year.
Mithoon furthermore did a guest composition for Pooja Bhatt’s Jism 2 which is also written by him.
Also, sometime in the year 2005 he did a Malaysian movie Diva produced by Astro Shaw. He did five songs for the movie and the background score with Malaysian leading R&B vocalist, Ning Baizure.
In the year 2009 Tu hi mere rab ki tarah– Mithoon’s Music Album came about and yet another album is yearned by his entire fan following.