Sonu Nigam on Monday warned T-Series chairman Bhushan Kumar against maligning his name. The singer came down heavily on the music honcho in a new video titled “Laaton ke MAFIA baaton se nahi maante.”
In the new video, he said, “I didn’t take anyone’s name. I just asked very politely that please be kind to newcomers in the industry. But mafia will play their tricks. They asked people to give interviews against me. They sent press releases to organisations, writing against me. Some of these six people who have given interviews against me are close to me. For years, they have been talking about the unfairness of the music industry to me, but now they are speaking a different language.”
The brother of one of these six people, in fact, wrote against the music industry over a year back. Sonu then showed an old tweet shared by singer Armaan Malik, where he had bashed the music industry. Armaan’s tweet read, “If only there was unity in the Indian music industry would there be any kind of change in the scene. Believe it or not every single musician in the industry is unhappy coz they are being curtailed and told what to do rather than being left alone to let their creativity soar. (sic).”
Earlier, in the wake of Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, Sonu Nigam had shared a video on Instagram, saying that people might soon hear about suicides in the music industry as well because a bigger mafia that exists in the industry. He requested the music companies to be kind to newcomers.