Shah Rukh Khan Called ‘Hakla’ by Rival Stars, Claims Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya

Rukh Khan Called ‘Hakla’ by Rival Stars: Recently, the focus was on singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya for commenting on a mashup of Dua Lipa's Levitating and Woh Ladki Jo, a lit song from the Bollywood movie Baadshah, which featured none other than Shah Rukh Khan. In his opinion, first, this particular song belongs to a singer and then the actor, so his name comes before Khan's.

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With this, the singer also opened up in an easy podcast conversation on the YouTube channel of Subhankar Mishra to talk about their work association spanning decades and whether there was a patch-up after all.

What Abhijeet said

In fact, during this chat, Abhijeet expressed how he was quite irritated by quite a number of songs back in the '90s and went so far as to take a few of them off his singing list because he didn't think they were well composed. “I had become choosy, and I became a little too mindful on this and decided that I will not sing for anyone else but Shah Rukh. That became a problem, because many of his contemporaries called him ‘hakla’ (stammerer). So what happened was, there was an award ceremony in Dubai where I had won an award for Tumhe Jo Maine Dekha.”

'Hakle ke liye gaa raha hai na tu?'

He added, “When I was getting down from the stage, there was one star who came forward and said, 'Aye! hakle ke liye gaa raha hai na tu (You are singing for that stammerer)?’ Two people said this together. I was shocked! I was like why are they feeling jealous, I got the award for my singing. After that experience, I kept losing interest in the playback singing and started focusing on my shows and concerts. Even today, I am very happy doing that.”

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Abhijeet has sung many hits for Shahrukh films, for example, Tumne Jo Maine Dekha from Main Hoon Na; Tauba Tumhare Ishare from Chalte Chalte; Chaand Taare from Yes Boss; and Zara Sa Jhoom Loon Mein from Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayege.

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