Not Arijit Singh, Shah Rukh Khan wanted Atif Aslam to sing Gerua!

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Posted: 9 years ago
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Shah Rukh Khan is known to speak his heart out. Honest and unabashed, SRK has answer to every question that's pointed at him. Promoting his latest film Dilwale, SRK was almost everywhere talking about the film. And in one interview he made an interesting revelation.

Dilwale's love anthem Gerua has certainly become the song of the year, topping all charts ever since it was launched. But did you know that singer Arijit Singh was not the first choice for the song? No!

SRK revealed in the interview, "We had approached Atif Aslam to sign Gerua first." But it didn't work out. Why? SRK joked, "He did not have time for me." When the interviewer further joked that Atif is not singing Pakistani songs either, SRK laughed and made a witty reply. "Then he must be singing for Chinese films now."


But what can be gathered from thsi friendly banter is SRK definitely prefered Atif to sing Gerua. Do you think Atif would have sung it better than Arijit?


http://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-not-arijit-singh-shah-rukh-khan-wanted-atif-aslam-to-sing-gerua-2157302

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Posted: 9 years ago
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Atif and Arijit both have same raw bakra kind of voice which dont suite SRK... SRK is wrong in his own perception ...Make Udit Narayan or Sonu Nigam again ur voice ...with them you have seen the peak
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Posted: 9 years ago
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arijit did an excellent job already
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Atif would have made it more goosebump-ish. It's the kind of song ... Atifs unique voice would have suited. Nice choice, Shah!
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Arijit sung it beautifully, so no thank you Atif and SRK.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Atif would have ruined the song.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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I've been to an Atif Aslam concert and he is total and complete garbage.
He is totally a creation of auto-tune. He cannot sing a note in tune.

To be fair, Atif has a good voice quality, and with auto-tune, is very radio friendly, but Arjit is a completely different league of singer.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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I find Arijit's voice far better than Atif... but he doesn't suit SRK at all.
I don't like Atif's voice, but I think he would have sounded better on Gerua. Not sure if he would suit SRK.
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Posted: 9 years ago
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SRK it's better you don't comment on religious,political AND bollywood related matters either.anything you say will and can be held against you
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Posted: 9 years ago
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Why are actors deciding their own singers? isnt this the job of the music director? I mean .. just it shocked me seeing that actors decide their own singers regarding this is not their area of expertise 😲

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