
Actually, more than making a song, proving your music in today’s times is harder. Music has overshadowed vocals).Īre you interested in composing for Hindi films?Ĭomposing for Bollywood films is very difficult. Music ne awaz ko daba diya hai (Now it feels like a song is being played and not sung. Ab aisa lagta hai ki gaana gaaya nahi ja raha, bajaaya ja raha hai.

The originality of vocals has faded away. But I think change kuch zyada ho gaya (there have been too many changes). I am very fond of Arijit Singh and Ankit Tiwari. Yes, some amazing vocalists have entered the industry. That’s the mantra I followed.ĭo you think Bollywood music has changed over the past five years? If you think positively, positive things happen to you. Everyone commits mistakes, but to accept that and mend it is important. I feared that they would misunderstand me. Staying away from my Indian fans was more painful than the legal case. I really wanted to visit India all this while). Bahut mann kar raha tha India aane ka (I am feeling very nice. It’s actually been five years since I last visited Mumbai, and about four and a half since I travelled to India. You have visited India after a gap of over four years. During his recent visit to the country, the singer spoke about how much he missed being in India, the changes in Bollywood music, and more. As a result, Rahat didn’t visit India for over four years.

However, the Pakistani singer found himself embroiled in a legal battle when he was detained at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport in 2011 for allegedly possessing undeclared foreign currency. In a journey spanning over a decade in India, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan has crooned several Bollywood chartbusters. He sang his first Hindi film song in 2003 for the film, Paap. Agar fankar saccha ho, to uske fans bhi sacche hote hain aur agar fans sacche hon, to woh kisi aur fankar ko accept nahi karte (if an artiste is honest, he or she will have loyal followers, and they don’t follow anyone else easily)." Ask if his uncle’s stardom helped him make a mark as a singer, and Rahat says, "It made things even more difficult for me. The 41-year-old, who has crooned various Bollywood chartbusters, adds that being Khan’s successor was challenging for him. Listen to Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan here Whenever he was angry with someone, he would not talk to the person for weeks and months," he says. He was very strict when it came to music. After he would sing a line, he would ask me to repeat, and I used to get petrified. "Bahut khaufnaaq mahaul banta tha (it used to be scary). The singer says that he would get cold feet whenever he would practise with Khan. This quality is one of my fondest memories of him.Harmonium or gaayaki ko chodke unka aur koi shaukh nahi tha (he didn’t have any other interest besides playing the harmonium and singing)." He was a very quiet person, and he had all his conversations via singing. On Teacher’s Day (September 5), while reminiscing about his youth, and the time spent with his illustrious uncle, Rahat says, "I have tried to inherit his gaayaki (style of singing). He grew up under the tutelage of legendary Sufi and qawwali singer, late Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, who was also his paternal uncle. But Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was one of the lucky ones. Not many artistes get the chance to train under icons.
