‘I Didn’t Want To Chase That’, Prateek Kuhad Says Bollywood Directors Were Earlier Discouraging

Indian musician Prateek Kuhad has given some of the most successful tracks including Kasoor, cold/mess and Sansein to name a few. He who has just created a few songs in Bollywood has opened up on his early experiences in showbiz. Kuhad recalled people being “mostly quite discouraging”.

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Prateek said that he was told he can’t do everything but will have to choose a part.

“There was this one director. I don’t want to name him obviously but he has made a lot of fairly big mid-budget films that did really really well, quality films actually. And he said that this is Bollywood, you have to decide you can either be a composer, a lyricist or a singer, you can’t do all three and I was like I want to do all three because I can,’ Kuhad told Humans of Bombay.

This was the time Prateek’s apprehensions about working in Bollywood began.

He said, “That’s how they do it in the rest of the world. This is the only place they don’t do it. I don’t understand why and he was like ‘no it’s not going to happen. You pick and you do one of them’. And that made me feel like I don’t want to do that,” he said. “People are mostly quite discouraging. I was told, ‘This is the pattern, this is how you have to do it,’” the singer added.

Prateek in an earlier interview also recalled how he was ready to quit just before musician’s one of the most successful tracks was released.

He told Forbes India, “I was ready to quit many times. But then these little things would happen and it would give me the motivation to keep going. I reminded myself of how making records just felt right, and this felt like it was my purpose in life. In fact, right before ‘cold/mess’ came out, I was planning to quit. I was going through a lot back then, professionally and personally.”

“I had been doing this for five to six years, and I was still struggling, not making enough money. I thought to myself, ‘I am going to shelf this record for now, take a sabbatical for 1-1.5 years and if things change, I'll get back to it’. But then this record deal I was trying to get finally went through and they funded the record. Once ‘cold/mess’ came out, it opened up a lot of opportunities for me.”

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