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I have always been targeted just because I am a singer and I like to look sexy: Neha Bhasin
Music, for Neha Bhasin, isn’t restricted to doing playback for films in a studio. She believes in using it to talk about different things, some drawing references from her own life.
The Jag Ghumeya (Sultan; 2016) singer reveals what she means to say by that. “My journey has
been topsy turvy. I started out as a pop singer, then pop died down, and I had to dig my feet into Bollywood which is not something I wanted. I didn’t know how to do it, I wasn’t trained to be a playback singer. Back in the day, you didn’t have auto tune, you had to be a really good singer,” she recalls.
Though she managed to enter and make a place for herself, the artiste adds that she never stopped doing or writing her own music. “In 2010, I came out with my own album, I was 10 years younger, going through breakups, so it was still raw. Now, as a woman who has come into her own, having done folk music, I thought ‘where is my voice as an artiste?’ For years I never had the courage to bring my written songs out. I had so many unreleased English songs. Then I had started singing Punjabi songs, so I started writing in that language, and that’s how Kehnde Rehnde happened,” says the 38-yearold.
Bhasin also mentions some things which happened in the 2020 Covid lockdown, the angst of which she channelled into her song. Even her clothing choices, she reveals, are targeted.
“I started writing it one and a half year back, and during the lockdown, got massively bullied by a certain fandom online. I also feel I have always been targeted just because I am a singer and I like to look sexy. I like to wear a certain clothing, and I get targeted for that a lot. You see 18-19 year olds walking around in shorter clothes, nobody says anything. Just because I am a singer, I am supposed to be a sati Savitri. This whole angst was coming from there and Kehnde Rehnde happened. We shot it during the lockdown,” says the singer, who released one more song, Tu Ki Jaane.