Mumbai, January 28: Bollywood singer and music director Arijit Singh, who won the hearts of the youth with the song ‘Tum Hi Ho’ from the Hindi film ‘Aashiqui 2’ released in 2013, has shocked his fans by announcing his sudden retirement.
Arijit, who has millions of fans through his soulful voice, has announced that he will no longer continue as a playback singer. He has won the National Award for Best Singer twice and has also lent his voice to a Kannada song. In addition, he has become the leader of many hit songs and has now announced his sudden retirement, which has caused many doubts.
He announced the news of his retirement through social media and did not give a proper reason. He said, ”I will not take up any new project as a playback singer from now on.” He will complete the accepted projects. However, it is said that he will continue in the music world independently. It is said that he may engage in work such as music direction.
Decades of rift with Salman Khan
As Arijit Singh announced his retirement, his decade-long rift with Bollywood actor Salman Khan has come to the fore again. A small incident in 2014 was the cause of the rift between the two. For this reason, Salman had ripped Arijit’s songs from his films and had them sung by other singers. Finally, their rift melted away in 2023 and these Bollywood legends were united.
After this incident, there was a gap and a rift between the two. Salman Khan had ripped the songs that Arijit Singh had sung for his films ‘Kick’, ‘Bajrangi Bhaijaan’ and ‘Sultan’ and had them sung by other singers.
Arijit Singh had said that he had a minor misunderstanding with Salman Khan in 2016. After that, the two stars forgot their differences and reunited in 2023. Arijit had lent his voice to a song for the Salman-Katrina Kaif starrer ‘Tiger 3’. Arijit has also sung for Salman’s next film ‘Battle of Galwan’.
Salman had proposed on the Bigg Boss stage
Salman Khan had recently proposed his misunderstanding with Arijit on the Bigg Boss 19 stage. He had said that the misunderstanding with Arijit was due to his own mistake. He had admitted that ‘the misunderstanding was completely on his side. Arijit’s fault’.
Arijit, who also sang in Kannada
38-year-old Arijit has sung in languages including Hindi, Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 2025. He has lent his voice to 2 Kannada songs. He has sung the song ‘Mauna Thalite’ from the 2014 Puneeth Rajkumar-starrer ‘Ninnindale’ and the song ‘Deva Deva’ from the 2022 film Brahmastra.