18 September,2025 08:49 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Amaal Mallik and Anu Malik
Amaal Mallik is currently the captain of Bigg Boss 19 house. The singer recently shared how he rejected big-budget offers to participate in the show. Now, the singer indulged in a heartfelt conversation with Baseer Ali ahead of captaincy task. He recalled how Anu malik and his family mistreated his parents. He even shares how they abandoned him when he was stuck during Mumbai floods.
Amaal said, "The Mallik legacy comes from Sardar Mallik, but it was taken upwards like a boss by Anu Malik. The year I did Sooraj Dooba Hai, he did Moh Moh Ke Dhaage, but there is no talent. Where we felt hurt was⦠I saw my dad lying down still, he is profusely sweating, and was taking pills for confidence. After many years of not caring, he called his dad to a studio, saying he wanted him to dub for a song that evening. Cut to when he went to the dubbing studio, the song that he was told about was playing in Uditji's voice. So my father enquired about the song, and learned that it was a song from a film that was released three years ago."
"He just called dad for a mock recording. He removed a three-year-old song demo where he muted Udit Narayan's voice and made Daboo feel that he was giving him a chance." When Baseer asked why he did so, Amaal replied, "Evil hearts." He went on to share, "My father didn't recover only from this betrayal. When they were 14 and 19, their love was insane; later wives came in. Wives are a big issue always. The women in anyone's life can create havoc. That is why my father made sure Armaan and I never became a duo, but had individual identities. But he told me that when I become big, I should also hold my brother's hand and help him."
Amaal Mallik also went to recall an incident from his childhood when he was abandoned on the streets by Anu Malik and his family during the Mumbai floods of 2005. He shared, "We are two swords of the same empire; no one has a bigger heart than my father. Seeing this, I became a warrior. In 2005, when it rained in Mumbai on 26 July, I must have been seven years old. Juhu is a low-lying area, so it was flooded. His (Anu Malik's) family saw me outside the gate struggling and crying, and the water was up to my chest. And I saw they locked their Mercedes, and I was left there. Manholes were open, and another friend of my father's wife saw me, and she picked me up and got me into her car. I was waving. I saw my aunt going to the car, the driver was there. Instead of opening the door, she just locked it. When I came home and said this, hell broke loose."
He further recalled his mother's struggles and said, "People say, I abuse a lot. I have a womb trauma, boss. Meri mom ko bahut kuch sunaya gaya (my mother was taunted a lot) when she was pregnant with me. They used to make her work a lot as she was living in a joint family. One day, she just smashed her hand on a cupboard in anger. She went through all this to make us reach where we are today."
