Sonu Nigam.
No need to ask about this personality. He is celebrity in India. for more than 15 years he has been singing for Indian cinema. He is my personal favorite singer.
Today in this blog, I am going to explain you my memories about sonu nigam. No no, that Does not mean that I have met this person, but I have lot many memories when he had entered into bollywood cinema and I was quite young.
I remember, I was in 7th standard. One film had launched at that time named Aaja Meri Jaan.Publicity of film was superb. I used to hear many good songs from that film on my radio. Songs like aaja meri jaan (title song), maria sun le mera haal, novel padha, julie julie etc. I liked those all songs and I decided to purchase a audio cassette. At that time, CD's were not there and my dad had purchased a videocon sterio to play cassettes. I purchased Aaja Meri Jaan Cassetted and I was
enjoying it for the first time. On B-side of that cassette, there was a very nervous and apathy mood song. "O aasaman wale jamin par utar ke dekh" this was that song. While listening to this song, I found that a singer is new and he sung this song from the heart, something happened to my mind and I immediately rushed to cassette cover. I uncovered it and took out printed paper where song list and all details like singer , music director details is generally mentioned. I immediately searched for that song from the list and found out singer "SONU NIGAM". I imagined that
personality in my brain and after that whenever I used to listened to that song, I used to think that how much efforts he had been placed to sing this song.
I still remember the stanza of this song. There was so powerful singing
Tu bhi to dekh duniya me, dardo ka silsila
Gam ki tadap se rab mere, tu bhi to tilmila
ooo pathar ko puj puj kar
ooo pathar ko puj puj kar humne khuda kiya
par tune mere yaar ko, muzse juda kiya
o aasamana wale zamin par utar ke dekh..
hoti hai kya judai, tu bhi utar ke dekhi.
o aasamana wale...
That was very wonderfully sung by sonu. Well done sonu. Since then I started looking for this person in the movie cassettes. Then after some days his song "Achha sila diya tune mera pyar ka" comes. This song also rocked in the market. This song was from the famous album of Mr. Atta Ulla Khan. Sonu had given excellent rendering expressions of Judai and Bewafaii in this song. It feels that he literally crying while singing this song. Truly amazing Sonu. I was so much impressed with this song and I sung it in our Society Ganesh Festival at Nagpur.
Then slowly slowly Sonu started making marks in the film industry. In year 2000, he released album "Deewana". When I had invited my final year engineering batch mates at home. They had gifted me "Deewana". I listened to it and I once again become fan of sonu. His romantic mood has no Comparisons in this world. All the songs in this albums are so good that I still sing all these songs and I remember all the wordings of the songs.
Then Ye dil.. from Pardesh,Is pyar ko ...Muze kuchh kahna hai,Yaad album - mohabbat kabhi to ..Abhi sas lene ki fursat nahi hai...,Hume jab se mohabbat ho gayi hai, sandese aate hai (My Mom's all time favourite song) etc and some of the wonderful songs.
Today also I like to see sonu on TV on reality shows. I enjoyed his Indian Idol. But I think now he has settled in USA and occasionally comes india for the tv shows or movie premiers. Today also I like to read about him, I like to watch his inteviews, his openions about music, life. I like so see the recordings of his song.
Only one WISH I have is to meet him. When will my wish will come true?
Love
Ashwin Shende
