Last year, Aditya Narayan announced that he would quit hosting shows and move on to doing other things after fulfilling all his commitments towards reality shows. Aditya is currently hosting Indian Idol 13 and says that he is certain about his decision to quit hosting for a while. He says, “I am not trying to break free from hosting, that’s not how I look at it. I’ve been hosting shows for 17 years now, have given it my 100 per cent and thoroughly enjoyed it. But God has blessed me with other talents too, and everybody knows that primarily I am a musician. Therefore, the current season of Indian Idol will be my final one for now. It is not a permanent retirement, but I wish to move away from hosting reality shows for some time.”
Aditya started singing when he was a child with his father Udit Narayan in Bollywood films. Ask him if he will focus on playback singing now and he says, “Times are different now. When we were growing up, every film used to be a musical and had six to seven songs — the entire soundtrack used to be sung by two-three singers with music by a composer duo. Now, there are fewer songs in a film and there are hundreds of singers waiting for an opportunity to sing for a film. There is clearly a disparity between the amount of talent versus opportunities available.”
