Not being a regular on top of the charts does not bother him. It’s not surprising then that Nigam has focussed on living life on his own terms. How successful you want to be has to be decided by you. I realised there is no end to what you can achieve. “I have been earning from the age of four, so I have been in the business for a very long time.
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That was sad,” he tells Forbes India on a balmy October evening at Filmcity in Goregaon, Mumbai, while shooting for a reality TV show. People in their 60s who had achieved a lot in life were criticising other people’s work and back-biting. By that time, I had already seen really frustrated people around me. I decided that I am not going to think that ‘I have to sing for so-and-so film or actor’. “I didn’t want to grow old counting how many songs I have. But Nigam says it was a time when he re-evaluated what success meant to him. Then 33, he was at the peak of his career, having collaborated with the likes of AR Rahman, Anu Malik, Ismail Darbar and Nadeem-Shravan on some of the biggest hits in Indian cinema. Even so, his fans were unprepared for his unexpected decision in 2006 to ‘retire’ from playback signing.
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The confidence in his talent perhaps helps Nigam stay fearless, whether it’s on the issue of music companies giving royalty to singers or posting a series of tweets defending controversial godwoman Radhe Maa in August 2015. “Sonu is a combination of extreme talent, hard work and intelligence,” says Shantanu Moitra, music director of films such as Parineeta (2002) and PK. Though he has consciously cut down on playback over the last few years, the few songs he does, like ‘ Love is a waste of time’ ( PK, 2014) and ‘ Sapna jahan’ ( Brothers, 2015), become chartbusters. Regarded as one of the most versatile and soulful singers since his debut in the early 1990s, Nigam’s voice has enthralled people across age groups and geographies.
When I get off, I am just a bundle of energy… the high is so great that I find it tough to get back to normal,” he says. “When I am on the stage, I feel like there is nobody. The stage and Nigam have been inseparable since. “I sang that song with him,” says Nigam, now 42, every detail fresh in his mind. Seated with him in the audience was his mother who relented eventually. “He was singing ‘Kya hua tera vaada…’ and I was desperate to join him,” recalls the playback singer. Even his four-year-self knew that, which is why he started bawling while watching his father Agam Kumar Nigam perform in the late ’70s. Sonu Nigam was always meant for the stage.
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