‘Anu Malik would beg, borrow, and steal for work’: Brother Daboo Malik denies career being sabotaged, admits Anu could ‘go to war’ over work

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Just a few weeks back, Daboo’s son Amaal Mallik had told Siddharth Kannan that Anu had sabotaged his father’s career.  He said, “They have had issues with each other on the professional front. Anu Malik was overly competitive with my father. He wanted to prove that he is the best composer from his family and often tried to sabotage my dad’s career.” Responding to his son’s comments, Daboo said, “Over the years, I think I said a lot of things during family dinner, which the kids heard and interpreted in a way which isn’t exactly right. It wasn’t right for me to say those things because of the frustration that I felt. I would never target my brother. I still call him, and we talk about a lot of things. He called me when he read Amaal’s comments and said, ‘I keep hearing a lot of things from a lot of people, but when kids of one’s own family say this stuff, it hurts more.’ He told me that he doesn’t want to be targeted unnecessarily, which is fair.”

He clearly stated that his brother doesn’t have that kind of sway in the industry, where he can just swoop in and take someone’s work for them. “He isn’t capable of sabotaging my career, or anyone else’s for that matter. Both my kids have made over 120 songs in the past few years, and it’s not as if the people in the industry have changed; it’s the same Salman Khan, the same Bhushan Kumar, and the same actors and producers who have been working for the past few decades. It’s not possible to sabotage someone’s career, and once Amaal makes the song, the director would never choose anyone else. Anu loves me, and he is obsessed as a big brother, but whenever it came to work, family or friends didn’t matter. He would go to war to get work,” said Daboo.