<p>Bengaluru: Veteran singer Sonu Nigam is receiving flak after linking a fan's request for Kannada songs to the Pahalgam attack during a recent concert in Bengaluru. </p><p>The video, shared on Instagram, purportedly shows him say: "I have sung in all the languages but the best songs that I have sung in my life are Kannada songs. Whenever I come to perform among you, we often do shows, but there is a show in Karnataka, we come with a lot of regard because you people have considered us like family..." </p><p>The singer then mentioned a boy, who he says may not have been born when he began singing in Kannada. He suggested that the boy had "rudely" asked him to sing in Kannada.</p><p>“Yahi kaaran hai, Pahalgam mein jo hua hai na? Yahi kaaran hai jo kar rahe ho, jo kiya tha na abhi?” (This is the reason for what happened in Pahalgam. What you are doing now, what you did just now, this is the reason)," remarked the singer, who has delivered many hits in the language. </p>.'Vape thrown': Sonu Nigam clarifies after reports of 'stone pelting' at Delhi show.<p>However, he quickly added that he loves Kannadigas and sings at least one Kannada song wherever he performs.</p><p>The incident reportedly occurred when the 51-year-old playback singer was performing at East Point Group of Institutions in Virgonagar, East Bengaluru. <em>DH</em> could not verify this.</p><p>Pro-Kannada activists joined the issue after the video went viral. </p><p>TA Narayana Gowda, the state president of the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike, shared a clip of the incident on X (formerly Twitter) and urged the Karnataka police to immediately file a suo moto case against Nigam and arrest him. </p><p>"How can asking him to sing in Kannada be linked in any way to a terrorist attack? Let’s see how he continues to do shows here," Gowda wrote in Kannada.</p><p>"No producer in Karnataka should make him sing. No organisation should host his shows. If anyone dares to do so, they will have to pay the price. Sonu Nigam’s statement insults Kannadigas and portrays them as traitors..." he said.</p>
<p>Bengaluru: Veteran singer Sonu Nigam is receiving flak after linking a fan's request for Kannada songs to the Pahalgam attack during a recent concert in Bengaluru. </p><p>The video, shared on Instagram, purportedly shows him say: "I have sung in all the languages but the best songs that I have sung in my life are Kannada songs. Whenever I come to perform among you, we often do shows, but there is a show in Karnataka, we come with a lot of regard because you people have considered us like family..." </p><p>The singer then mentioned a boy, who he says may not have been born when he began singing in Kannada. He suggested that the boy had "rudely" asked him to sing in Kannada.</p><p>“Yahi kaaran hai, Pahalgam mein jo hua hai na? Yahi kaaran hai jo kar rahe ho, jo kiya tha na abhi?” (This is the reason for what happened in Pahalgam. What you are doing now, what you did just now, this is the reason)," remarked the singer, who has delivered many hits in the language. </p>.'Vape thrown': Sonu Nigam clarifies after reports of 'stone pelting' at Delhi show.<p>However, he quickly added that he loves Kannadigas and sings at least one Kannada song wherever he performs.</p><p>The incident reportedly occurred when the 51-year-old playback singer was performing at East Point Group of Institutions in Virgonagar, East Bengaluru. <em>DH</em> could not verify this.</p><p>Pro-Kannada activists joined the issue after the video went viral. </p><p>TA Narayana Gowda, the state president of the Karnataka Rakshana Vedike, shared a clip of the incident on X (formerly Twitter) and urged the Karnataka police to immediately file a suo moto case against Nigam and arrest him. </p><p>"How can asking him to sing in Kannada be linked in any way to a terrorist attack? Let’s see how he continues to do shows here," Gowda wrote in Kannada.</p><p>"No producer in Karnataka should make him sing. No organisation should host his shows. If anyone dares to do so, they will have to pay the price. Sonu Nigam’s statement insults Kannadigas and portrays them as traitors..." he said.</p>
