Sonu Nigam under disguise sings on the streets of Mumbai

Legendary singer Sonu Nigam recently released a 6-minute video titled ‘The Roadside Ustaad’, which has gone viral on the internet.

The singer dressed as an old man in shabby clothes, sings with a harmonium on the streets of Mumbai. He sang almost 25 songs, for about an hour each at different locations.

In a statement, he said “They didn’t recognise my voice. They liked my voice, that was the good part that I could actually, out of nowhere, attract them through my voice. I was dreading the fact that these people shouldn’t recognise me; that would be an embarrassment for me. There was no one around me, no bodyguards, no team, no managers.”

“What you guys saw, was a very short clip. At every spot, I sang for one hour each. One hour behind Chandan (Mumbai theatre), then one hour in front of Chandan, one hour at Four Bungalows. So, it wasn’t easy, sitting in the sun, in the dust, and I sang a varied range of songs; you just heard two. I might have sung at least 25 songs. I worked that hard, that’s why so many people joined in”

“We had no idea that people would like it so much and make it so huge. From where all I’ve received calls, they gave me good vibrations, they told me that they were crying, they couldn’t believe that I did this”

“What learning can we give others; we, ourselves, learned a lot. For me, it was my own learning. It’s the same me, it’s the same voice, the only difference is of the clothes, where I’m singing, and how I’m looking. A man sitting alone and without inviting anyone, we wanted to know how would that experience be.”

The video is a marketing feature for Sonu’s upcoming single ‘Crazy Dil’, which will be launched on Tuesday.

Video and picture below, do check it out.

Sonu Nigam goes unrecognised as old street musician