Abhijeet Bhattacharya says Shah Rukh Khan’s fellow stars would name him ‘hakla’ behind his again |

Within the 90s Abhijeet Bhattacharya lent his voice to Shah Rukh Khan’s songs like ‘Tumne Jo Maine Dekha’ from ‘Major Hoon Na,’ ‘Tauba Tumhare Ishare’ from ‘Chalte Chalte,’ ‘Zara Sa Jhoom Loon Mein’ from ‘Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayege’ and lots of extra. Although the singer-actor dou was by no means very shut personally, their skilled partnership gave Indian cinema among the finest and ever-green musical gems. Nonetheless, since Abjijeet felt he wasn’t given his due credit score for his efforts within the songs he sang for SRK, the 2 fell aside. Now, it has been 17 years because the two final got here collectively. Reflecting on the identical, Abhijeet Bhattacharya has combined emotions. He isn’t offended however upset, he needed Shah Rukh to supply an olive department and so far appears like patching issues up with him.
“I by no means abused him, there are such a lot of individuals who did, some named their canine after him, his contemporaries. Then Farah Khan’s husband (Shirish Kunder) insulted him, all of them then hugged it out. My drawback is that I used to be expressing my ache,” Abhijeet mentioned on a podcast with Shubhankar Mishra.
He added that he by no means anticipated an apology from Shah Rukh however he needed him to take step one. “Being a senior, age-wise, he might come and hug me, I wasn’t anticipating an apology, however he might come and say, ‘chal yaar… (come on mate…)’, we’ll play collectively once more. However individuals selected to (ignore me),” expressed Abhijeet.
As aforementioned he nonetheless desires issues to show higher between the 2 of them. He mentioned why wouldn’t he need to patch up, their voices are made for one another. He even went forward to explain the connection as that of a ‘husband and spouse.’ “Husband and spouse combat, and so they’ll need to patch up, isn’t it? It isn’t out of obligation however it’s for the nice. We are going to create one thing good,” he mentioned highlighting how his coronary heart is eager for a peace treaty.
In the identical dialog, when requested about his earlier assertion that Shah Rukh was a star solely till he sang songs for him, Abhijeet clarified that his phrases have been taken out of context. Nonetheless, he very strongly talked about that after him, none of SRK’s songs both with Udit Narayan or Kumar Shanu are at par with ‘Kuch Kuch Hota Hai,’ ‘Darr’ and extra
Final however not least, he commented that plenty of Shah Rukh’s contemporaries by no means thought of him a star. They usually referred to him as “hakla” (stammerer). “There have been a number of stars who informed me, ‘hakle ke liye gaa raha hai na tu (You might be singing for the stammerer)?’ I used to be like why are they feeling jealous, I bought the award for my singing,” Abhijeet recalled.
Along with his latest statements, Abhijeet has made it fairly clear that he nonetheless holds a particular place in his coronary heart for Shah Rukh Khan. Sure, they’ve their distinction but when an olive department can be prolonged, Abhijeet wouldn’t say no to it. He nonetheless feels that he and Shah Rukh can come collectively to create one thing magical for his or her followers.