Amaal Mallik weighs into Sonakshi’s Justin Bieber concert debate

There’s been a lot said about Sonakshi Sinha performing at Justin Bieber’s upcoming India concert. Even though the actress released a statement earlier denying the news, the debate continued with musician Amaal Mallik wading in with his own opinion.

Mallik told Mumbai Mirror, “I feel when an international singing icon tours our country, it is important to put forward our own icons, like Arijit Singh, KK, Sonu Nigam, Armaan. India has some incredible talent that should represent us at such big international gigs. Parineeti (Chopra), Alia (Bhatt) and Shraddha (Kapoor) have done a good job with playback singing recently. I got Salman (Khan) sir to sing Main Hoon Hero Tera for me. This is okay for films but for music concerts as big as Justin Bieber’s, I stand with Kailash Kher. Pure musical artistes should get the opportunity to perform instead of actors who are not conventional musicians.”

Mallik also confirmed that he had approached Sinha for a song collaboration, “Yes, I was open to the idea but the song never materialised. But Armaan and I never went to her for a collaboration. The idea was the brainchild of the team of her recently released film and Sonakshi was keen on doing a track. Keeping in mind the genre, situation and the required singing style, the track seemed tough to pull off. I needed true-blooded singers to deliver those melodies and do 100 per cent justice to them.”