In Bollywood, he got into the spotlight as Hrithik Roshan’s voice in Kaho Naa.
Since then, he has released many songs with soothing melodies, which also stood the test of time. So, there are great values that I gained from the very material losses that I might have gone through,” says the 62-year-old.īack in 1996, Ali, son of legendary actor-comedian Mehmood and the nephew of Meena Kumari, took the pop route to enter the industry with the release of album, Sunoh. “The love, the respect and the honour… You can’t buy these things and no amount of royalties or likes can buy that. Instead, the singer, who likes his music to do much of the talking, looks at the brighter side and the “larger picture”, which is the love that he continues to get. Of course, it does hurt you in a sense that you worked on it,” he adds. Because there are (other) things to do than to follow up things on that front, if you understand what I mean. “Fortunately, I would say that in my situation, whatever I went through was like a lesson for me,” says Ali, who has always been vocal about not receiving royalties for his songs, some of which have become classics now. Having seen many ups and downs, Ali has made peace with some bitter chapters of his past. Though his roots trace back to a filmy family, he stays disconnected from the regular mechanism of the showbiz or the number game of music business. Singer Lucky Ali has been navigating the industry for over two decades now and has several successful Bollywood tracks to his credit.