Music label wanted to fire Arijit Singh for rejecting binding contract: ‘He wasn’t even famous, not a single song had come out’

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Mohit said that he doesn’t know if Arijit knows the story, but he should thank Mithoon, who was the one who really stood up for him in the pressure situation. “I was only fighting for my music director,” Mohit said. Asked if he knew even then if Arijit would become one of the greats, Mohit said, “Yes, we’ve never made music like that.”

Aashiqui 2, starring Shraddha Kapoor and Aditya Roy Kapur, was a breakout hit at the box office, much like the original Aashiqui in the early 1990s. Both films were greatly supported by their music albums. Arijit, of course, has gone on to sing dozens of chartbusters. In a recent interview, composer-singer Amaal Mallik said that Arijit is now in a position where he has to turn down offers of Rs 1 crore because he is so occupied. “He’s not here to prove a point,” said Amaal in an interview with Mirchi Plus, adding, “What the both of us relate on is that we can’t be bought. If you give him Rs 1 crore and ask him to sing a song, he’d return it and say, ‘Bring me a good song.’ A lot of composers get offended by him that they’re offering their best songs to him, but he doesn’t want to sing those. Because he’s probably sung so many songs of that genre that he’s exhausted