In the 90s Abhijeet Bhattacharya lent his voice to Shah Rukh Khan’s songs like ‘Tumne Jo Maine Dekha’ from ‘Main Hoon Na,’ ‘Tauba Tumhare Ishare’ from ‘Chalte Chalte,’ ‘Zara Sa Jhoom Loon Mein’ from ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayege’ and plenty of extra. Though the singer-actor Dou was by no means very shut personally, their skilled partnership gave Indian cinema a few of the finest and ever-inexperienced musical gems. However, since Abjijeet felt he wasn’t given his due credit score for his efforts within the songs he sang for SRK, the 2 fell aside. Now, it has been 17 years because the two final got here collectively. Reflecting on the identical, Abhijeet Bhattacharya has blended emotions. He is just not indignant however upset, he wished Shah Rukh to supply an olive department and up to now seems like patching issues up with him.
“I never abused him, there are so many people who did, some named their dog after him, his contemporaries. Then Farah Khan’s husband (Shirish Kunder) insulted him, they all then hugged him out. My problem is that I was expressing my pain,” Abhijeet stated on a podcast with Shubhankar Mishra.
He added that he by no means anticipated an apology from Shah Rukh however he wished him to take step one. “Being a senior, age-wise, he could come and hug me, I wasn’t expecting an apology, but he could come and say, ‘chal yaar… (come on mate…)’, we’ll play together again. But people chose to (ignore me),” expressed Abhijeet.
As aforementioned he nonetheless desires issues to show higher between the 2 of them. He stated why would not he wish to patch up, their voices are made for one another. He even went forward to explain the connection as that of a ‘husband and spouse.’ “Husband and wife fight, and they’ll have to patch up, isn’t it? It is not out of obligation but it is for the good. We will create something good,” he stated highlighting how his coronary heart is eager for a peace treaty.
In the identical dialog, when requested about his earlier assertion that Shah Rukh was a star solely till he sang songs for him, Abhijeet clarified that his phrases have been taken out of context. However, he very strongly talked about that after him, none of SRK’s songs both with Udit Narayan or Kumar Sanu are at par with ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai,’ ‘Darr’ and extra.
Last however not least, he commented that a number of Shah Rukh’s contemporaries by no means thought of him a star. They typically referred to him as “hakla” (stammerer). “There were a few stars who told me, ‘hakle ke liye gaa raha hai na tu (You are singing for the stammerer)?’ I was like why are they feeling jealous, I got the award for my singing,” Abhijeet recalled.
With his latest statements, Abhijeet has made it fairly clear that he nonetheless holds a particular place in his coronary heart for Shah Rukh Khan. Yes, they’ve their distinction but when an olive department would be prolonged, Abhijeet would not say no to it. He nonetheless feels that he and Shah Rukh can come collectively to create one thing magical for his or her followers.
