Bollywood singer Neeraj Sridhar breathed life into the audience with his performance at the last day of inter-school fest, Wheels-2015 organised by GET Club at Sumant Moolgaonkar Stadium on Friday.
From Punjabi song ‘Main Tannu Samjhawan ki’ to ‘Prem ki Naiyya’ (Ajab Prem ki Ghazab Kahani) and ‘Twist’ (love Aaj Kal), he gave some of the best performances. Youthin large numbers enjoyed the music. Known for his remixes Kya Soorat Hai, Woh Chali and Chod Do Anchal made the audience to dance to the tunes. The annual mega event is organised by the GET club, a body of graduate engineers who had begun their careers at Tata Motors, TMl Drivelines, Tata Power, Tata Cummins ltd and Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery.
Prior to the show talking to the media, prior to this talking to the media, he said, “I was born in Jalandhar in Punjab. Both my father and mother were music lovers and they served as a source of inspiration. “Most of my life I’ve lived abroad. Whenever I went for promotions in Kolkata, Hyderabad, I found people waiting to see me. I was a much bigger star then. I decided to return to India and started getting good offers,” said Neeraj.
He said that he has sung more than 90 songs in Hindi films but he wants to focus his career in the field music composing. “ I have sang enough on others’ tunes now I want to make my own tunes and make others sing. Since I love making songs, I want to devote myself in making tunes. I’ve also started getting offers,” revealed Neeraj.
“I know we have a great collection of singers but I love to be different. But my voice has a completely different texture and I have never copied any singer while singing. I think it has helped me to maintain my original voice,” said the singer. Answering queries of the media, he said that the music industry has become like a fast food chain and people love to hear it, enjoy and then forget. He said that there is no harm in it as a lot of budding artists are getting chances to make their career in the field of music today.