Mumbai: Popular playback singer, Sonu Nigam was nearly hit by a car outside a restaurant in Mumbai on Monday night.
The singer, who was at the restaurant to meet one of his friends, had a narrow escape as he stepped aside when the car accelerated towards him.
Visibly shocked by the incident, Sonu gave a death stare to the car’s driver, while his bodyguard rushed to help him.
When people around asked the singer if he was fine, Sonu said, “I’m good.”
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Sonu recently got embroiled in a legal controversy for refusing to sing a Kannada song at a concert in Bengaluru.
The singer linked the audience’s request for Kannada song to the brutal terror attack in Pahalgam, before declining it.
Following the legal woe, the singer took to his Instagram handle to issue an apology.
“Sorry, Karnataka. My Love for you, is bigger than my Ego. Love you always,” he wrote.
The controversy didn’t end here. Kannada director K Ramnarayan removed two songs sung by the singer from the movie ‘Kuladalli Keelyavudo.’
The filmmaker told PTI, “The national tragedy that happened in Pahalgam is a very grave mistake. He must pay a price for that. In fact, he sang the title track, which is a tribute to possibly the most famous Kannada song, featured in legendary actor Rajkumar’s 1965 film, Satya Harishchandra. The original Kuladalli Keelyavudo is so sacred for the Kannada film industry – our orchestra, while recording songs, ends by playing this song. How can this song be sung by someone like Nigam, who thinks so lowly of us?”
