Abhijeet Bhattacharya On Favouritism In Bollywood: 'Who Is Salman Khan To Take A Singer's Song?'

After Sushant Singh Rajput's tragic demise on 14th June, it is not just the Hindi film industry that has caught up in a heated debate amongst audiences. While people are talking about the nepotism issue in Bollywood, the music industry is feeling the heat as well. After Sonu Nigam's video, singers are opening up about favoritism. Now, Abhijeet Bhattacharya has also commented on this.

Opening up about how favouritism has become the norm, he said, "It wasn’t like this before in the ‘90s. Back then, it was even unthinkable. It did happen that one song went from one singer to another but it was authentically, not like this. Things were not so dirty. A film director and music composer used to decide which singer they want, not some company or actor. Now, who is Salman Khan to decide who should sing a song? Who is Salman to take a singer’s song and sing it himself? This is a clear case of favouritism.”

Sonu Nigam, in his Instagram video had said, “An actor, the one at whom everybody is pointing fingers these days, has done this with me, saying I should not be made to sing, the same actor has done this with Arijit Singh also. What is this? How can you use your power like that? So many songs sung by me have been dubbed. This is humiliating. Isn’t it? I don’t ask for work. You call me, make me sing and then dub it! This is funny as hell because I have been working since 1989 in the music industry. If you can do this to me, then what do you do with the youngsters!”

Salman Khan had earlier apparently taken away 'Jag Ghumeya' from Arijit Singh because he was miffed with him. The singer had even apologised on social media and requested that his rendition of the song is allowed in 'Sultan', but it was dropped.