These concerts have nothing to do with our culture, rich music and traditions.
The ball was set rolling as early as the 2nd-3rdweek of January 2018 to sabotage the show on the issue of nationality of the lead local promoter Jaweria Khan. A very prominent person, “famous” for organizing big shows, personally made phone calls to investors/lenders for Show Biz not to invest/lend money for this show.
At the last moment Pritam’s team made a big hue & cry on the issue of technical rider that there will be less spot lights, rather glaring lights, on Pritam while he will be performing on stage. If Pritam is an artist and was not concerned about the nationality of the promoter Khan, he would have performed by declaring the tech rider deficiencies to the audience. No one would have stopped him from making that announcement. Rather he chose to rope in the local Overseas BJP officials to defend him on the social media via video interviews and blame everything on the local promoters.
We don’t have artists anymore. What we have is synthetic music & vocals, corrected or improved or altered by high tech computers with glaring lights and very loud sound effects. One can hardly notice how well the singer is singing or the quality of the singer’s voice. Then, they have vulgarly choreographed dances with barely or scantily clad dancers trying to take the audience to their fantasy world. In majority of the concerts after 2-3 songs the singers do lip singing only on pre- recorded songs in studio settings.
I challenge Pritam and all the singers in his group to sing non-stop for 1 hour individually without their battalions of so called musicians with high tech gadgets and high-tech computers. They are free to use all or any of the traditional Indian instruments like Harmonium, Sitar, Beena, Sarangi, Taus, Dilruba, Tabla, Dholki, Dhol etc.
It is a waste of time and money to attend the so-called concerts by the likes of Pritam. These concerts have nothing to do with our culture, rich music and traditions. One can safely call such events cheap Bollywood Entertainment, only beyond the realms of real music and real singing.