On why his Dubai concert is named Tum Hi Ho

no Mithoon. It’s as simple as that. I’ve never been a man of numbers. A lot of people have told me – ‘you keep a very low profile’. This is one of the rarest media interactions I’ve had – in fact, in Dubai I think I’m interacting with the media for the first time!

I’ve always felt an internal connect in my music – it’s not very external. My films have always done well, my music has done well – Main Phir Bhi Tum Ko Chahoonga has just crossed half a billion views on Youtube so that speaks of the massive outreach my music has. I feel if the music is doing the talking, what more do I need to say? After that, it will just be adding to the noise in the world.

“A NEW DECADE HAS begun and there’s a lot that has happened in everybody’s lives in the past ten years. A lot happened in my life – Aashiqui 2 was a very special moment, also for emotional reasons because I dedicated the entire soundtrack and the Filmfare award to my father, who was an arranger on the soundtrack of 1990’s Aashiqui. When I wanted to start something like this (the concert) – I wanted some connect. And while I was searching for that common thread and that emotion I felt Tum Hi Ho is what brought the country together and what brought so many artists together; the world came together. When I won the IIFA award for Tum Hi Ho in Tampa, Florida, there were 60,000 people singing the song when I was on stage. So I don’t think any materalistic motivation can get you to a place like that. Only emotion can do it.”