Leveraging the fame he received on the last season of Bigg Boss, Jaan Kumar Sanu has been on a spree of releasing new music. In this interview with mid-day, he discusses his latest release with DJ Shadow, and being labelled a &ldquo;nepo kid&rdquo;, even though he&rsquo;s never been afforded the perks.&nbsp;
Edited excerpts from the interview.
How did your collaboration with DJ Shadow for Humko sirf tumse, come about? I have been a fan of his work for a while. He is a rage in every party. I have a bucket list of people I want to work with, and he is among them. I sent him a text on Instagram, proposing a collaboration. When he replied, I was shaken up. He told me that he had been working on a song for a while, and wasn&rsquo;t finding a fit. He wanted me to give it a try. When I realised that the song was Humko sirf tumse pyaar hai, I [was dissuaded]. I told him it would be cliche to work on my father&rsquo;s song. He didn&rsquo;t understand what I meant, and that&rsquo;s when I told him I was Kumar Sanu&rsquo;s son. But he was excited to work on it. I didn&rsquo;t want it to sound like dad&rsquo;s version and had to work hard to avoid copying him. Giving it a fresh twist was a challenge I was looking forward to.
We&rsquo;ve seen you work on an assorted bunch of projects. How would you describe your music sensibilities? I think if a singer limits himself to a genre, that&rsquo;s a curse. I would predominantly sing classical music, because that&rsquo;s what I heard since the age of three to 15 &mdash; Sufi, semi-classical, and bandish. It limited me. My mom was instrumental in forcing me to listen to other kinds of music. If you consider musical legends like Kishore da [Kumar], you&rsquo;ll notice that he explored all kinds of music &mdash; from a comedy like Ek chatur anar, to a track like Chingari koi bhadke. Today, I can sing all kinds of songs, and in different languages. I&rsquo;ve put in time, blood, and sweat to hone those skills.&nbsp;
You&rsquo;ve found yourself in the nepotism debate, which criticises the fact that less-skilled children of talented artistes get opportunities that they shouldn&rsquo;t. But in your case, things have worked the other way around. Those who&rsquo;ve heard you sing will vouch for your skills, but have you been able to take advantage of your father&rsquo;s name? The nepotism debate began on Bigg Boss with Rahul [Vaidya, singer and co-contestant]. That was the stupidest thing he did. My parents separated before I was born. I didn&rsquo;t have any support from dad, and didn&rsquo;t know I was his son [for a while]. If I had that card to play, I would have had 50 films behind me, and would be hanging out with the top guns. But, I am earning my daily bread. I have waited in garages, parking lots, and staircases for one opportunity to be heard, and I&rsquo;ve been denied that as well. That&rsquo;s how it was for my father too. He had to work his way up, and looking at his journey, I wouldn&rsquo;t have it any other way. I&rsquo;ve seen people squander their name just because they achieved fame too easily.&nbsp;

As he discusses his latest track with DJ Shadow, Jaan Kumar Sanu on being the famous dad’s son who must still work his way up without support


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