The Bollywood industry, which seems to be very shiny and glamorous from outside, has many dark secrets behind its curtains. Many celebs have come out with their stories in public and talked about what they have to face. Not only the actors but the singers also have faced many things which were recently revealed by Amaal Malik. And now Amaal’s brother Armaan Malik has come out with his struggles.
Armaan Malik, a well known singer of the industry recently appeared on Raj Shamani’s podcast in which he opened up about the politics that he faced in the industry which forced him to step back. He spoke about him on being scared due to replacement and said, “That phase, where I was being replaced, I thought, ‘To hell with this s**t’.”
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Armaan said, “There was a phase where I was replaced in quite a few songs in Bollywood, which scared me, in a way. I was like, ‘Am I not a good singer?’ And I can’t let that happen to me. I’m very sure of how I am as a singer. But it’s the circumstances. If I’m replaced because I’ve not sung the song well, I’ll accept that. But if I’m replaced because of certain factors or politics, that’s unacceptable. That happened so much to me, and still does, I’ll be frank. I moved on from that.”
“Singers don’t get paid to sing in movie songs. Obviously, you do certain things for the love of music, but there’s also a monetary motivation. At the end of the day, think of it as a job. It’s crazy that as singers, we don’t get to see that. We are so used to this (not being paid) that it is not even a conversation. They feel if the song is a hit, the singers will earn through live shows. There’s no conversation. It’s just like, ‘Are you free to come to the studio?’ We come, we sing the song, and the next day you find out someone else has sung the song. Sometimes, even composers don’t get paid. The streaming revenue goes to the labels. This could be a story that we’re uncovering here, but not many people know this, the general public doesn’t know that their favourite artists are not being paid,” he further said.
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