91 साल की मशहूर सिंगर की वजह से पाकिस्तान से भारत आए अदनान सामी, अपने मुल्क में खत्म हो गया था सिंगर का करियर

New Delhi: Originally from Pakistan Adnan Sami took Indian citizenship in 2016. Adnan revealed that he did not decide to make his career in India only for money, but because he felt disappointed in Pakistan. In an interview recently, he told how Asha Bhosle inspired him to come here when he was completely disappointed.

He also told how Asha Bhosle made her feel like a home in Mumbai when she worked together in ‘Kabhi To Nazar Milao’. After that, there is all the other history because he found a lot of love and fame here. In a new interview with India TV, singer Adnan Sami told about his personal conflicts, due to which he had to travel his music from Pakistan to India, a step that finally defined his career.

When Sami shared his grief with Asha Bhosle
Sami recalled the era with disappointment, saying, “When I released some songs in 1998, the people of the Pakistani music industry decided that now my work is over.” He did not even bother to promote the album. There was no marketing, nothing. It was released and no one came to know. It disappeared as if never was there. This really broke me. At that time, Sami was living in Canada, facing the deception from the industry that had ever adopted them. Sami further said, ‘I knew that he had done this intentionally. This feeling shocked me a lot. In search of hope, Sami turned to a great figure, Asha Bhosle, who sang with him the evergreen ‘Kabhi Milao’ for the 1997 album changing season. I told Asha ji, ‘I am disappointed. I think people at home have made up their mind not to work with me, the reason I do not even know. I asked him if we could record something together in London?
His answer changed the direction of my life. Why London? ‘

Sami’s luck changed due to a reply to Asha
Sami told, Ashi ji asked me. I said, ‘I know some people there, maybe I can work with them.’ And he said, ‘Look, if you really want to do something better, then come to Mumbai. It is the capital of Hindi music. If something works here, it becomes global. This is the place where magic occurs. Inspired, Sami took the step. After this, Sami told, ‘I reached Mumbai with a Boria bed.’ Remembering that moment, he laughed and said, when he did not bring anything other than hope and his music in the city. ‘Asha ji and her whole family took care of me like myself.’ He told how Bhosle gave him more than only professional support, he gave him a shelter. He held me in RD Burman’s house. For a musician, the place was like a temple. I was very lucky.

Mumbai proved to be a significant turn for Sami
The songs lost in oblivion in Pakistan got new life and immense success in India. In Mumbai, his ‘Kabhi Nazar Nazar’, ‘Bheegi wet nights’, ‘lift karade’, they were marked here. The rest, as they say, is history. Sami said, ‘I got the love and acceptance that I got… I had never even imagined it.’ He emphasized that great artists like Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mehdi Hasan and Reshma earned love in Pakistan, but their true popularity was touching the sky. ‘You cannot deny this, the audience here is very much. The attitude towards music, respect for musicians, it is unmatched.

Sami also responds to Pakistani artists
But he did not refrain from highlighting the painful truth faced by many Pakistani veterans. He said, ‘The world loved Mehdi Hasan Saheb and Reshma ji, but on their last day, they were sad. No support from the system, no help. Just forgot and there are many more people like them, not only the singer, but also the actor. In 2005, while addressing the notorious letter written by the then Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf to his father, he was accused of betraying Pakistan, Sami strongly responded. He clarified, ‘There was no truth in that letter. In the year 2005, I was still a Pakistani citizen, I had not yet made an Indian. He said, ‘I do not know who gave him wrong information, but clearly, something wrong had reached the chain. And just like that, everyone turned his face to me. With honesty and humility, Adnan Sami’s story is not just about music, it is about getting home, respect and love at a place where he had the lowest expectation.