Generally, I find Indian playback singers over-rated. If you consider the plethora of young and old singing talents, from small towns and big cities alike, that show up each night on music reality shows — able to hit you so hard, with their rendition of popular songs.

And yet, if you look back at history, particularly of Hindi film music, you'll find it dominated entirely by such a small pantheon (six to seven singers, max). It'd seem as if no one else in India could sing. While it appears that practically everybody can — on a scale of bathroom to Broadway/Bollywood, of course.