While marking the completion of 35 years in the industry as a musician, Kumar Sanu makes a pertinent point. If the music of this day and age had the ability to draw large audiences, he asks, “Why do you think we are so busy then?”

Referencing the decade of the ’90s, he says, “[At the time], when a director gave a composer the task of creating music, the composer would be trusted entirely. There wouldn’t be any interference in his work, and due to that, there would be creativity in music. The songs not only had variation, but were also aligned with the narrative. There is a lot of interference now. Today’s listener also likes the music of the ’90s. It is only the producers who don’t understand this. Why do you think [musicians like me] are so busy today? It is because of the [dearth] of good music, and the lack of good-quality lyrical writing today.”