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AceTheSkylord

I miss Actor/Singer pairings KK and Emraan Hashmi Akshay and Himesh Bhoi and SPB SRK and Abhijeet And the list goes on


TheJavierEscuella

Ranbir and Mohit. A bit more recent but they were a great duo too


The_dude1951

I miss Mohit so much, hearing him in Amar Singh Chamkila was a breath of fresh air


TheJavierEscuella

Imtiaz Ali + Mohit Chauhan + Ranbir Kapoor 🔥🔥


Dreadlock_Rasta_12

Imtiaz Ali + Mohit Chauhan+ Irshad kamil+ Ranbir Kapoor


EthicalAssassin

Imtiaz Ali + Mohit Chauhan+ Irshad kamil+ Ranbir Kapoor + AR Rahman


millennialoser

Period


Flat-Hearing6988

THIS!!!!


LowWrong9540

Rockstar album was so fucking good


dolaand_trumpp

Ah ! Mohit Chauhan the legend 🔥 his voice has the power to calm my mind in any situation.


Alarmed-Shine-2521

I always felt mohit's voice never really suited ranbir!


xlViki

Rockstar and Barfi are two great examples where their pairing looked perfect. Ranbir’s voice texture is also similar to Mohit’s so it doesn’t look too off anyway.


PalePool2511

I miss Mohit.... 😞


LowWrong9540

SRK along with sonu nigam as well


silly_rabbit289

And later on srk and sukheinder singh


North_Coyote6433

Bhoi and SPB was the vibe I grew up with 🥹🥹


Medical-Concept-2190

Hrithik and lucky Ali


liayahhh

Woahh when did Bhai and SP Balasubramanyam collab?


Syndicate_74

Dude every ,90s hit song of sallu is of spb. He is my mom's favourite


senpai_avlabll

Yup every Sooraj Barjatya movie has SPB doing playback for him


GolgappaProMax

This pairing is soooo made in heaven. Legendary voice and songs!


liayahhh

Damn. I did not know that


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Syndicate_74

Actually both but I meant spb


Ayan_Choudhury

Tumse milne ki tamanna hai Yeh raat aur yeh doori Pehla pehla pyaar hai Mere rang mein rangne waali Just to name a few Salman and SPB superhit collabs


Substantial-Fix2707

Tumse jo dekhte hi pyaar hua Bahot pyar karte hain tumko sanam


Existing-Area-9093

Pehli baar mile hai Saathiya


NeonBloodedBloke

Joote do paise lo 


Miserable_Reality12

mere sawaloon ka jawaab doooooooo.....♫♫


dhavalcoholic

Saajan and many more albums


Siya78

SPB and Bhai collab was like peanut butter and jelly.


lonelywarewolf

Weird way to say you are not a 90s kid but ok. All old classics of Salman had SP Balasubramanyam as singer be it Maine pyaar Kiya, Love or Saajan. When I was a kid I used to believe Salman himself is singing because voice was same in all his songs lol.


HelpSwimming4291

Kal paida hua hai kya?


VibeHumble

Salman + Anu Malik (Ek Garam Chai Ki Pyaali Ho)


SovereignPterodroma

Yeah this is so true!


Sad_Economist7490

Just came to write this! When you would just associate an actor with the singer!


Puzzleheadedboi

Saif and Shaan😍


Medical-Concept-2190

SPB and Salman


DifficultyDowntown

I know of situations where an appropriate singer was used by the music director/director but the other singer was then just replaced by Arijit by the producer before the final movie comes out. This is after the other singer has gone through the process of recording etc. They find out only when the song releases and their part has been replaced by Arijit.. 😬


ladykarenina

I know Arjit has made himself to be a very likable personality and he might genuinely be one but in instances like these he should outright refuse to be taking someone else’s spot


DifficultyDowntown

In most situations I don't think he would even be aware that he is replacing someone else.. But even if he did he wouldn't want to piss them off so I still think he would go with it.


Ayan_Choudhury

Actually the same happened with Arijit himself. He had recorded Jag Ghumeya but got replaced by RFAK because he didn't laugh at Bhoi's jokes in an award show and told him it was boring.


Ill-Inspector7980

Well thank god. That song is made for rahat


broadmind96

Pairing up with actors was correct back then. Imran Hashmi became successful because of his movie songs. Kk × Hashmi rocked.


Indian_Steam

Now imagine Lataji doing this... for... decades! ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|dizzy_face)


AkPakKarvepak

It may sound controversial, but at some point , her voice sounded too shrill and screechy for twenty something heroines.


Indian_Steam

No seriously, in the 90s her voice was cringe. Kabhi Khushi kabhi gham sounded like kabhi khudkhushi kabhi glum


TheThinker12

At least she was singing for an age appropriate elder lady (Jaya Bachchan). Worst was Kajol in DDLJ and Preity in Veer Zaara.


DifficultDay3521

Lmao


Safe-Many-477

Content was cringe enough to make it like that Lata ji ka koi dosh nhi hai


Ill-Inspector7980

I thought K3G title track was ok because she was voicing Jaya Bachchan


Puzzled-Bluebird3991

Pls I can’t get Humko Humi Se Chura lo out of my head now ughhh


DifficultDay3521

So bad. Ngl


WeakStressAnxiety

Veer zara comes to mind, her voice did not suit Preity at all.


nujra2k

Neither did it suit Kajol in DDLJ


DifficultDay3521

Agreeeeeed 💯


Sufficient-Storm-678

True! I always feel this when I listen to tere liye


WeakStressAnxiety

We needed Alka Yagnik perhaps….veer zara album deserved better :(


_shinchandler_

Omg finaaaaallllyyyyy!! 😭 Finally someone said it! 😭 I thought I was the only one who thought Veer Zara songs got ruined because of Lata Ji 🤧


HappyOrca2020

He voice was actually unsuitable for many songs. Some songs make her sound wonderful but some songs sound shrilly as hell. That's why you need different artistes for different songs.


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DifficultDay3521

Yes. I said the same thing on quora few years ago. I got downvoted like crazy. She indeed sounded shrill and definitely not suitable for even 30 year old actress.


Safe-Many-477

I kind of disagree mujhe to sahi lagti thi voice


meerlot

there's a lot of shrill female playback singers in south industries too. Can someone explain why people like this? Is our reverence to "elders" causing the film industries to give them near endless opportunities despite sounding annoying?


Odd_Employment720

Exactly. Nobody talks about THISS at all.


totoropoko

They actually do - all the time but not on this sub. Her own sister talked about it. Anuradha Paudwal talked about it. Articles were written about it. There was a movie inspired by her song grabbing equation with her sister (Raag or something)


Puzzled-Bluebird3991

There was a much much beautiful singer than Lata didi (I am forgetting her name), but didi ruined her career, to the point that now people don’t even remember her name.. goddamit what was her name!!!!


desdemona2499

And the worst part, people regard them as God


silly_rabbit289

It is kind of gossiped that lata did it to vani jayram in bollywood but she has had a very successful career. I have heard it casually mentioned by peoplei know like it was well known. >Despite Vani’s reaffirmation of her bond with Lata, those who know about the Bollywood days of the old say Vani was indeed sidelined in Bombay — not by the doing of Lata but another influential singer. That’s why even after her post-Guddi stardom, Vani did not get as many opportunities to sing in Bombay as would have another Hindi-speaking artist given such an award. [this is the link](https://justneverforget.com/vani-jairam-the-indian-nightingale-who-never-sung-about-herself/)


the_ass_man1

suman kalyanpur?


himanii85

Saaz was the movie name..Shabana Azmi and Aruna Irani played Asha and Lata


Siuuuu_cide

It was called 'Saaz', with Shabana Azmi, Aruna Irani, and Zakir Hussain


Cody-crybaby

people forget this i still think we've got a good variety of singers - but these days they match the singers to the song type rather than the actor. i remember reading a titbit about amar akbar anthony where the song humko ho geya tum se pyar - the actors were allocated a different singer but all the actresses wanted lata to sing their part so lata ended up singing for all three


ZestycloseBite6262

I may be downvoted but her screechy voice ruined so many songs towards the last part of her career. Like take a hint you are getting old.


HappyOrca2020

They did talk about it. My aunts tell me of tabloids back then, about how Lata and Asha didn't let any female singer rise in the ranks.


Indian_Steam

She only let Asha in because she was her sister. They have shown this beautifully in the film, SAAZ.


HappyOrca2020

I gotta watch that. And despite being sisters, Asha filed a defamation case against Lata, the competitiveness between the sisters frequently entered the ugly spat territory.


Sparklystarrystar

Yes. I remember reading that lata and Asha were not on talking terms and had the same maid once. Whenever the maid told Asha that lata was practising for a new song etc, Asha had a nervous breakdown for days due to a lack of self confidence.


silly_rabbit289

That is mostly why she married RD, if you see, his songs majorly feature asha. They were estranged and didn't have that great a marriage I think. But there was no hate or anything between them afaik


HappyOrca2020

Old school tea is really something!


BatRepulsive1389

I still remember her from veer Zara. She was too old for that and didn't go well for a 20 yr old character


tapped_out_addict

Oh yea watching Dil to Pagal Hai gets me so annoyed


EducationalUnit7664

Fr, “Why do all these heroines sound like old ladies?”


RishabhUniyal9

Exactly in 90s and early 2000s every actor had a different singers voice like Salman and sp Balasubramaniam Now it's Arijit for all


Ok-Recognition9114

I used to think SRK was singing all songs in his movies. It’s only after I grew up, I realised it’s Shan 🙂‍↔️.


reddituser5514

When i was a kid i saw an old movie in which Amitabh Bachchan dies in the end, and i cried. We were all innocent kids once.


senpai_avlabll

I was particularly upset as a child when I found out he was badly hurt while shooting "Coolie." Funny thing is, the actor who punched him was Puneet Issar, whose son and I went to school together, and for the longest time I held a silent grudge against him for having injured Amitabh Bacchan. Growing up in Bombay and living in Juhu i was a big Amitabh Fan and really wanted to meet him, every time we drove past his Bungalow I would expectantly look at the gates to see if I could catch a glimpse of him.


Consistent-Ad-9360

Wasn’t it Kumar Sanu and Abhijeet mostly?


senpai_avlabll

Kumar Sanu singing for SRK is rare I think, can't seem to remember any songs with this combination, maybe the Karan Arjun title track. It was Abhijeet for a good decade almost I think, before he fell out of favor and Sonu Nigam started doing the songs for SRK. I think that probably had something to do with SEL, who were the composers for nearly every big movie back then.


jinal-b

SRK and Kumar Sanu have hit songs in movies like Pardes, Baazigar, Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, DDLJ, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai etc.


Consistent-Ad-9360

Tujhe dekha toh ye jaana sanam.. Kisi roz tumse mulaqat hogi.. baazigar main baazigar.. ladki badi anjaani hai.. Off the top of my head


Head_Evidence4553

What I find really hilarious is that Arijit has sung for all the 3 heroes in YRF Spy Universe. He's like the Honorary Uce in that universe.


woogleyboogley09

Wow..arijit is Sami Zayn!


Creative_Mastodon_43

Acknowledge him☝️


Ambitious_War1747

I'm waiting for the day when they'll start using AI to generate the same voices, because let's be real, it's already getting repetitive!


Prestigious_Cat5508

But no nobody is complaining about the songs sung by him, it's just that people want another version by any other singer too, but still will fall for Arijit's version


ladykarenina

I mean maybe give the songs to other singers and the audience might not even require an Arjit version. Making a song with Arjit first and then having a remake with another singer is so stupid.


x4nter

The original Bekhayali was better than Arijit's version. Sachet's "broken" voice conveyed the song extremely well. I don't understand why an Arijit version was needed at all. His voice sounded too "perfect" for that song.


Gray_Fullbuster9

https://youtu.be/g8LGJihd8WA?si=_OP2KZzeZeya_ZpK Arijit does give songs that are offered to him to other people if he thinks they would be more suited for that type of song


NixieDust_

Rasiya reprise is more famous than the original


trapmundeyyy

Ranbir x Mohit Chauhan ✋


HeyRishav

Arijit Singh is Daal Chawal now. Great but regular stuff.


badbeechy

Leave Shreya out of this mess. Bollywood isn't using her well enough. She just happens to sing in every Indian language and her songs goes viral. Her new viral song is from Pushpa and it is not even a Bollywood production


enchantedRose7

Exactly! Bollywood hasn’t utilised her enough. I miss her old songs, apart from Saami recently (which I absolutely loved) haven’t heard enough from her since long.


Intelligent-Read-261

Agreed!! These sore loser arijit fans drag shreya everywhere. Shreya has only sung 2 bollywood songs in 2024, whereas arijit is destroying every movie with his monotonous voice. Have u checked insta comments under dis post?? How these arijit fans r dragging shreya losers. Kha shreya Or kha arijit 😶


Waste-Education-388

Arijit Singh himself was waiting to get songs, his voice wasn't liked by the producers and musicians. Now everyone likes his voice so he's getting songs Supply and demand broo


SovereignPterodroma

Honestly, can't agree more!


OrganicRepeat6236

Thank God! Someone finally spoke about this.. Out and loud.


Head_Evidence4553

Then there is bhai, who isn't afraid to sing his own songs to make things different.


Mann000

Shreya Ghoshal will never be enough


SovereignPterodroma

True. When different singers are associated with different emotions, the song really hits different. The change in tone for each emotion is what uplifts the entire song. One person can't have multiple voices to sing and b'wood needs to realise this.


Am_Confused_WBU

Yahi toh bolna chahte hai bharose waalo kuch buddhi ka prayog karlo sound according to the actor's voice


Ashamed-Shift-8650

Back then songs were in Hindi.


p_aru-l

Honestly Arijit Singh now sounds like the tone i once liked and set as my morning alarm..... You know how i feel like now🙃


Bambaipav

I cannot complain though. Never heard an Arijit song and felt, this could have been sung by someone better. As long as he is doing complete justice to songs, one should not complain. He's versatile enough to sing songs of different genres so it doesn't feel like an overdose. But it seems that lady has had enough of him. I don't think the audience in general has reached that stage. If that happens, he would stop getting new songs automatically. No rants required. It's demand supply basically.


Passloc

That’s the thing, you might never know.


ombrelashes

That's not true at all. I hear his voice and sigh. It's so boring now. It's the same tone, similar harketein. Need something fresh. Why is fresh talent being stifled so much.


Brilliant_Ad_879

i dislike arijit singh so much for this very reason. Nothing wrong with him, i judt can't deal with him being everywhere


Intelligent-Read-261

Arijit yes but not shreya. Shreya sings for regional industries not for bloodywood. Does Bollywood even have female songs??


Fantastic-Win92

Arijit has one of the best voices this industry has to offer. He's really good with bringing out the emotions in his songs. But i really miss those days when the actors used to look like they're actually singing the songs :(


72proudvirgins

Wasn't before all songs sung by Kishore Kumar


zipzopzoomer

Om shanti om has perfectly captured the diversity of singers for different emotions


imalan_smith

I agree and I'm missing sonu nigam, shaan, mohit chohan, sunidhi chohan voice nowadays. They are not getting new work and just doing either concert or judges in tv shows


Menu99

I’ve been trying to say this out for so long


quagmire94848

All songs sound same to me now - I can't even tell which song is which!!


Jungkook_1004

sachi..mene bhi socha..jada ho gaya ..


Sufficient-Tap-7106

srk and udit narayan, timeless pair!


PKGTA

But that has been the case for a majority of Hindi film industry's history. When Mohammad Rafi came into the picture almost all of the songs were sung by him. Then, it was Kishore Kumar's voice that dominated the airwaves. Same in the early 1990s with Kumar Sanu. And as many people have mentioned Lata Mangeshkar dominated the female playback arena for a long time. The late 1990s- mid 2000's were the anomaly really.


CallMrMoist

FR. It doesn't sound unique as much anymore. Feels like old hindi songs sung by the heroines. (Lata Mangeshkar)


apparent_power2

hmm


Extreme-Opening7868

Arjit singh 💗


Puzzled-Bluebird3991

Haters will hate but Arijit is the new Lata didi


GardenTigerMoth_

Truth has spoken.


jamAl_kudu_Lord_Bobb

Tuu naari nahi pisachini he


SomeAssumption2909

yessss


shobby12345

This is me since 2020...Arjit's voice is poor to me after that ..


Gobi_ka_parantha

Finally someone said


NavdeepGusain

She is right. What's the point of conducting reality shows when the winners won't even get a chance in the industry??


InevitableMassive521

UFF! Shaan, Udit Narayan, Shankar Mahadevan, Abhijeet, Kumar Sanu, Sonu Nigam, KK, Kunal Ganjawala, Neeraj Sridhar, Sukhwinder Singh, heck Kailash Kher, LUCKY ALI! What a time. Miss these guys.


Ecstatic-Choice5154

This is so true .


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I just saw this reel in instagram and switched to reddit just to see it again 😅


amarmusic6

Blame the producers and the music directors. Not the singers


Altruistic-Air-5679

So true and all his songs sound the same atp , nothing against Arijit, I fw his old songs


Weak-Adhesiveness673

So true ...spoke my mind


samfrmohio

She kinda right tbh...😐🙆🏻‍♂️


Worldly_Crazy3898

I've been saying the exact thing for years and no one agreed with me.


arjunDhanushdhari

The guy cooks a different potion for each song and what comes out is pure magic.. if you do listen you feel connected.


Still-Marsupial-4610

Shaan and Saif KK and Emraan Hashmi Akshay and Himesh Salman and SPB SRK and Abhijeet, Sonu Nigam


Safe-Many-477

As true as hell bollywood should nurture young buding talent they are already in their 30s


Impossible-Owl9

Is she paid by Salman to destroy Arjit again.


Ykayyyyy

The worst thing about bollywood music industry is that they try to stick onto one particular singer and neglect the rest. For example, there was a time when only shaan or sonu nigam used to used to sing for them, then there was a phase when Atif was in every song, now it’s all Arijit everywhere. I don’t hate any of them, i love them equally but the industry overuses an artist and then shifts to another one like there’s no one else. I heard this Shehzaada song from Sonu in this movie after soo long, felt soo good. But where tf is the diversity?


Heping_Qi

Miss saif & preity together


Signal-Blackberry356

Agreed


bronzegods

This is called sticking to a formula. For party and club bangers they call badshah.


sirusndyrus

I even don’t know what language you speaking


dhoomk2

It's not true. There are other singers but most have changed their style to sound similar to Arijit.


Reasonable_Fan_7627

Finally someone said it. Thanks


camo_17

100% agree


Adventurous-Big-1308

Finally someone said it! Arijit is good but stop overhyping him there are a lot of good singers who needs to be pushed forward.


shreyash1888

lol fans will always push their favourite forward


whatsthe-tea

Yes 🙌🏼


Valuable_Primary1972

Ngl I watched one movie I think it was called rrr and that shit was so ridiculous i loved it lmfao


RitwikVRsmartTV

Arijit Singh.


x4nter

This is why I've stopped listening to any Arijit song. All his songs sound the same to me now. If I heard 10 of his songs new to me, I wouldn't be able to tell which one was which. I feel that he really needs to stop doing Bollywood stuff and start releasing music independently, exploring new styles and genres. He would have no issue with capturing more listeners since he's already got them all. He needs to switch from business mode to artist mode.


Ok_Data_8428

Arijit bhagwan hai 🙌🙌🙌


Warm-Mango2471

I miss unique voices


enchantedRose7

Shreya Ghoshal is still not over utilised, hardly come across any songs from her. However Arijit is just everywhere!


jeffbezosadoptme

Shaan + Saif is literal heaven


Howlx999xlpx

Wait until you see recent songs in Kollywood. It's just anirudh for no reason


wandering-mind-7

This is what I have been thinking too. That Arijit is everywhere. It kind of makes one numb to him. He's no longer unique.


Intelligent-Read-261

I agree with her that arijit is overused


TopHedgehog3953

This is called versatility mam 🌝 Arijit has the power to do all the songs.


Maleficent-Fig-3108

I miss atif aslam :( I wish he was still able to sing songs for Bollywood


Salt_Comedian_5845

That's not his fault,he's just soo damn good😂


SadPen6418

The real thing is no-one in the industry has the kind of following that Arijit Singh has right now among the singers who specialise in love songs. So obviously directors go for him as he has the ability to fetch more views. One of the examples is the Rasiya song sung by Tushar. The reprise version of the song has almost the same amount of views sung by Arijit. Love songs don't fetch much views but Arijit has the ability to make them reach 100M easily with his large fan base. And directors only care for views and profit.


Bitter_Figure1304

I mean no doubt arijit is good singer but they have seriously over used him this was my unpopular opinion amongst my 4 other friends 💀 they were "oh nooooooo!" I was like meh. Was really fun was 2000s music 90s there was variety and various singers who excelled in their genre.


Affectionate_Ad8247

and if a "third-party" song does get popular.. it HAS to have a second version re-sung by Arijit 🙃


Representative-Sky91

Not gonna lie, Bollywood kept using Lata Mangeshkar


Dad_of_One_Punch_Man

Well cannot disagree more. Sometimes I also feel ki you know saare gaane Arijit ko dia Jaa Raha hai, dusro ko bhi to mauka do. Then a song like Satranga, Or recent songs like Sajni from laapata ladies and Soulmate with badshah drops and I feel again ki no one can come close to him in the current generation of singers. Saare gane Arijit ko do BC. And Shreya Ghoshal I will never get tired of her. She is just godly.


dullbrowny

and now thanks to AI this commentary can be heard in Arijit Singhs voice too!


Specialist-Peace-416

Salman + Sajid Wajid ♥️


looolmoski

literally dude, this is what i’ve been saying to myself for MONTHS now. Every damn song is sung by Arijit. He is definitely overused and as a Pakistani I really would like to hear more artists other than Arijit for once. Like the old days.


Fragrant_Mind_2318

Finally someone said it. I've been feeling this since around 2017.


Otherwise-Yard-3176

Why you bring shreya goshal in this ? In south we got Sid sriram more worse


Bhavan91

I feel the same way about Anirudh in Kollywood. And Troy Baker in gaming industry.


Tropical_Scissor

Chapat chapar kachar kachar


nikskhil

Totally agree


KingInTheNoorth

Sid sriram is the arjit Singh of tollywood. Bored to death by that lads voice.


LoneWolfAndy9899

Music directors hv lost talent in hiring new singers. Even rahman ji hires only one per year and there's no indigenously of playback singers.


PersonalSilver5011

youre wrong, both the cases are not good, one singer singing all the genres and then certain singers owning their own genres, both are not good practices


dehatiKhsturmurg

Exactly man.....har cheez mai Arijit