facebook Pintrest Kumar Sanu has been a force to reckon with in the music industry. The ace singer has been around long enough to witness all the changes it has gone through over the years. In an exclusive interview with ETimes, he opened up about favouritism in the music industry, his favourite co-singer, memories with composer-duo Nadeem-Shravan and more. Excerpts… There are talks about music mafias and favouritism in the music industry. Have you experienced any of these in your career? I don’t agree with the word ‘mafia’. But yes, there are music companies that have a monopoly. They interfere a lot. I did not face this problem much; during my time, music directors had some freedom of doing their work according to their will. Today, that freedom is not there. The song gets canned after the music director works hard on it. Producers and labels demand certain types of songs, and they suggest singers too. Power has now slipped from the hands of music directors and has gone into the hands of labels, producers and certain actors. They have to either accept what they say or leave the project. I have not faced this much during my time but I hear about this a lot these days. A lot of my colleagues tell me that they sang a particular song but the producers did not keep their version. I feel this interference should stop and people should be given the freedom to do their work. When it does, the music industry will be a much better place, I feel.