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He is known for his melodious voice and has given us songs that are close to our hearts. His life has been a big struggle to reach to the place where he is today. We are talking about Shahid Mallya who has made his own sweet place in the music industry today.

Shahid who got his family to Mumbai with the scholarship he won for singing talks about it and says, “I got a scholarship from college so without telling anyone in the family I booked my tickets for Mumbai. We were 6 people, mom dad and 4 brother sisters. I booked advance tickets for one month and in that one month I convinced everyone to go to Mumbai. I wanted to fulfil my father’s dream of becoming a play back singer. So we came from Punjab Mail. It took us three days to reach Mumbai. We got down at Mumbai Central Station and I kissed the platform and said Mumbai I have arrived.”

Talking about his early experience of the city, he says, “I used to enter a photo studio for recording because here it is not mentioned outside the studios if it is photo studio or a recording studio. I used to apologise then and come out. Many years passed away and my struggle never ended. I even worked at a shop for our survival. But my parents motivated me that you should only concentrate on your singing and this gave me back my lost spirit.”

Yamla Pagla Deewana was his first bollywood film where he got a chance to sing Gurbani. Then came the film Mausam which gave him the deserved success with the song ‘O Rabba, Main Toh Marr Gaya Re’.

Talking about the same, he shares, “Pritam Sir knew me for 1 year and after 1 year he gave me this opportunity. For this I give the credit to Kumaar, the famous lyricist. He introduced me to Pritam Sir. Rabba was the best song of the year 2011. It was the most downloading song of the year. I was lucky I sang two songs for the film. Life before the film and after the film was totally different. “

Today Shahid is known to be the singer who gave us ‘Ikk Kudi’. He talks about this hit song and says, “Amit Trivedi is known to be experimenting and that is why he gave me the song ‘Ikk Kudi’ which was written by Shiv Kumar Batalvi. I was so lucky that in the film the song was kept under my voice and Shahid Kapoor’s lip sync was also in my voice. Though many other singers sang a reprised version of it but I am lucky to say ‘Ikk kudi’ is my song. I think Shahid Kapoor is a lucky charm for me and I hope that in near future also I get a chance to sing for him.”

It is said, Straight road is easy but it’s the curves that makes journey interesting. Same goes with our lives. What is life if there are no challenges? Strength comes after you face struggle in life. We know him as the voice of ‘Ek Kudi’ but we don’t know the struggle that went behind that voice to reach masses.

Shahid Mallya opens up on his childhood and struggle that he surpassed to reach to this place in Bollywood today.

Talking about when and where he started his singing, he said, “Singing in my life started from my house only as my father is a singer. He considers Mohammad Rafi as his guru. I listened a lot to Rafi ji’s music during my childhood because of my dad. Till I was five and a half years old, I was in Mumbai only and then one day my parents had to go to attend a wedding in Punjab and Rajasthan. So post attending that marriage, my father met with an accident! Because of that accident, he was stuck for six years in that city”

“Papa was bed ridden for six years, my maternal grandfather was a tehsildar, he helped a lot for the treatment. We all were very small so we used to depend a lot on my maternal side. We used to live with them, play with them in the fields, bathe in rivers. I have worked in fields, sowed and reaped grains, have watered the fields in the night. With all this, I used to go to school also”

Speaking about his training in music, he said, “Post my tenth grade, my dad and I started doing small programs, devotional singing. We used to sing in gurudwaras. I used to play tabla with him. I must have played tabla in around 2000 events with my dad. Because of that I used to get a chance to listen to all the big singers from Punjab and Rajasthan. So I did not take any traditional training in singing but I used to get trained by listening to these singers. I got basic knowledge about music from there.”

Talking about his first experience of getting appreciated for his voice, he opened up and said, “When I came to college, I also started singing. I used to get a lot of appreciation for my singing. I used to take part in competitions and used to secure first position. From there on, I got motivated. In those three years, I took part in almost all the singing competition in Rajasthan and I used to secure 1st, 2nd, 3rd place. This gave strength to my family that he is singing well.”

Today, Shahid Mallya has given his voice to many top actors of the industry like Shahid Kapoor, Abhishek Bachchan, Farhan Akhtar, Vicky Kaushal and people are fan of his melodious voice.

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