New Trend in Tinsel Town: Actors cum Singers!

With the growing trend of actors turning singers, BollyCurry is just wondering what our singers are going to do next. Oh right! They might just get into acting? Who knows! We won't comment on that for now, but BollyCurry, in true critic style, is ready to pull apart the nuances of singing and why our actors shouldn't give up. Yes that's right. We said shouldn't. Because even BollyCurry has to agree that these actors are good singers (with a heavy heart), but still because we're in critiquing mood, we're going to pretend we didn't just say that.

A few months ago, actually more like at the start of the year, we were all praise for the Big B for trying something different at a time when most actors left the singing to the singers (which is how it should be), but today we're here to grind down to the nitty gritty details of his voice. Truth be told, even we would have a hard time saying "stop singing" to Shree Amitabh Bachchan. The fact that he is so popular and has sung a number of songs including "Main Yahaan Tu Wahan", "Ekla Chalo Re" and "Bol Bachchan" among others proves that he is a great singer. In addition, Big B is also fond of lending his voice for movies he doesn't star in such as Kahaani (2012) or Bol Bachchan (2012). This ultimately makes us question what our actual singers are doing? Are they too busy to sing that an actor had to be brought in to do the honours?

"Jumme Ki Raat", "Hangover", "Tu Hi Tu", and "Yehi Hai Zindagi" have one thing in common: a Salman Khan version of the song. Yes, surprisingly each of these songs from Kick (2014) has a Salman Khan version. Actually, no, "Hangover" only had one version, which was used in the movie as well. Don't get us wrong, but we have a problem when suddenly, to make a movie a success, an actor sings a version of each song. Not that he doesn't make you swoon and feel special with his sweet voice, but really is the success of a movie album and also the movie, dependent on its lead actor's singing? Sad days is what we think are here.

This actress may be in the wrong line of work as has been said by quite a few film critics (notice how we blame the film critics). But really we have to agree with them. Her melodious voice is like icing on the cake in her movies. She's a good singer and we have to accept that. But we also agree with the film critics that she's a better singer than actress. Shraddha dear, either get some acting lessons or change your career to playback singing. We're being frank and all we have to say is that it's a tough world.

A student turned an actress who then turns into a singer and that too in a span of barely two years. She's a fast moving person, but then we kind of knew that when she was launched in Student of the Year (2012) and quickly rose to fame with that. But little did we know that she would surprise us by becoming a singer as well. We don't know what it is with this new generation of actors, but it seems that after acting, the next thing an actor wants to do is become a singer. Not a problem, but we still feel that actors should stick to acting and leave the singing to the singers, though we might add, Bhatt's "Samjhawan" and "Sooha Sahi" were quite commendable.

Finally, we decided to wind up the list by discussing another student turned actor turned rapper, Varun Dhawan. He can act, he can dance, and now he can rap as well. We beg someone to tell us what it is about singing and acting together! Of course it is different here with it being rap, but it still goes into the field of music. Why do actors need to expand their horizon by becoming singers or rappers? We have no problem with this idea generally, however it's not always everyone's cup of tea.

A special mention goes to Sridevi Kapoor's "O Meri Chandni" from Chandni (1989), Priyanka Chopra's "Chaoro" from Mary Kom (2014), Akshay Kumar's "Maange Maange" from Entertainment (2014) and Madhuri Dixit Nene's "Rang Saare Gulaabi" from Gulaab Gang (2014).

Writer: Alina S. & Shreya S.
Editor(s): Shreya S. and Sonia R.
Graphics: Virina R.