Arijit Singh: I struggled a lot to make my place in the industry

The singer, who has sung “Aaj Se Teri” from PadMan, spoke about how he decides on his projects, “There are various reasons as to why I take a song up. Sometimes it’s because of the relationship with the music composer. Sometimes it’s because of the filmmaker. Sometimes the story excites me and sometimes the song is something new for me to tackle as a challenge.” Arijit mentions he would never lose out on an opportunity to work with different composers as it helps him to learn and reinvent what he knows already. He said, “I want to work with all music composers that I have not worked with till now be it in India or Internationally. There is so much of talent around us that there is always something new to learn. For me, it doesn’t make sense to take only one or two names. It is my intent to create great collaborations eventually.”

Today, while he might be in a situation to take the liberty to add his own style to a song, he quips how in the beginning of his career, he used to be scared to lose out on opportunities. When we asked what has been his most difficult song to sing, Arijit said, “Most of my songs that I began my career with were super tough mostly because back then I used to over think a lot. I had struggled a lot to make my place in the industry so I was very apprehensive about giving the songs a personal touch or anything at all. All I wanted to do was exactly what the music director’s brief asked of me.”

The artist performed in Leisure Valley, Gurugram, on February 17. For all those who do not know, Arijit surprises his audience by singing songs sung by other artists. While we wondered if he sings these songs because he likes them or wanted to sing them personally, he says that every artist does justice to their song. He mentions that he sings songs by other artistes only because he admires them, “No, not at all. They are simply my favorite songs that I admire a lot because they have been sung so beautifully by their respective singers. In Kolkata, I had performed some of Hemant Kumar’s songs and other contemporaries as well. There’s nothing such as wishing I had sung them instead because I genuinely believe that each singer does justice to their songs.”

As the conversation came to an end, Arijit, who has sung recreated versions of “Soch”, “Har Kisi Ko” and “Main Tenu Samjhawan” among others, shared his opinion on recreations of classics which seemed to have become a never-ending trend in Bollywood.

Arijit Singh performed in Delhi/NCR.

Arijit Singh performed in Delhi on February 17.

Arijit Singh 2018 Tour will head to Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Indore, Mumbai and Raipur right up till March 2018.

“I have nothing against recreated songs at all. People are loving it. We make music for people to love and as long as that music is making people happy, I see no harm,” he said.

When we asked if he would be fine with his song being recreated in future, Arijit laughed and said, “I don’t know how I will feel about my songs being recreated, guess we’ll eventually find out when it happens.”

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