Diljit Dosanjh performing in a pair of trunks and a vest, travelling economy and selling out stadiums... all this and more in this Koffee With Karan interaction from back in 2018.
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00:00When I said 25,000, my mom gave me a pair of slippers.
00:03What did she say?
00:03She said, dogs don't have so much money, why are you stealing?
00:06I sang two lines and I forgot.
00:10So I just said, sorry, I forgot the song.
00:13Everyone applauded.
00:15I remember that.
00:16Because I was from a village.
00:17If I was from another village, I would have been in trouble.
00:30So I never thought that one day you would be like on posters and with these crowds of
00:54people screaming your name, you pack stadiums and I'll get to you also Badshah because I've
00:58seen this up close and personal with you, like you pack stadiums.
01:00You even said that I read it somewhere and it was very touching that at one point, you
01:04know, 5000 people used to come to the house and you thought that maybe, you know, two
01:07days won't be enough.
01:08You've achieved so much.
01:09Did you ever think that this would happen one day?
01:11I remember going to the Gurudwara as a child and praying that God, I don't know anyone,
01:19but everyone knows me.
01:23So this was my prayer.
01:24I remember when we weren't artists, my brother and I used to pick up the receiver from there
01:32and I used to pick it up from there.
01:34So we were talking at home.
01:35I remember we were sitting in the courtyard.
01:40So my brother called and I picked it up and my brother said, man, we have to book Diljit
01:46Dosanjh.
01:47So I said, okay, which date is it?
01:49Okay, it will cost 25,000.
01:50When I said 25,000, my mother's slippers came like this.
01:54I said, dogs don't have so much money.
01:56Why are you stealing?
01:57Diljit, do you remember your first performance?
01:59When you performed somewhere, do you remember that moment?
02:02Yes, sir.
02:03I was a kid and there was a big singer in our village.
02:05So he didn't come.
02:06Who came?
02:07I'll tell you.
02:08Master Salim came.
02:09Oh, okay.
02:10So he didn't come.
02:11So he made me sing that he sings in the village.
02:12So I got on the stage.
02:13I remember I was wearing a niqab and a vest.
02:16So we went to see.
02:17So I got on the stage and I sang two lines and I forgot.
02:21So I said, sorry, I forgot the song.
02:24So everyone applauded me.
02:26I remember that.
02:27Because I was from the village.
02:28If I was in another village, I would have been in trouble.
02:30Diljit, when you performed for the first time,
02:33in a proper professional way,
02:35you remember that moment?
02:36First, you messed up.
02:38First, you flopped.
02:39Yes, completely.
02:40After that, do you remember when you got into it
02:42and you performed in some kind of a professional way?
02:44Yes, when I went abroad to perform,
02:49I went with a hit artist.
02:52I was just about to start the show.
02:54I have started many shows.
02:58So I just started like that.
03:00So when I reached there, there was a lot of crowd.
03:04I had never seen so much.
03:05It was a Toronto show.
03:07So I didn't go and sing first.
03:10I screamed very loudly.
03:12Because I had sat in the plane for the first time
03:14and I was so suffocated.
03:15So I couldn't open my mouth.
03:17Was that your first time on a plane
03:18when you went to Toronto?
03:19Yes.
03:20First time?
03:21Yes, first time.
03:22And I sat in the plane for the first time.
03:23And the tickets were sold out.
03:29So I had to take it to the first class
03:30without his permission.
03:32In the plane.
03:33And I thought that all the planes are like this.
03:35I didn't know that there is a tight seat in the plane.
03:38I swear, I thought that all the planes
03:39have such big seats.
03:41So I sat in it and went.
03:43I will tell you his story later.
03:46So I went there and sang.
03:47I screamed a lot.
03:48People were very happy.
03:49I had a lot of fun.
03:50When all the shows were over,
03:51when we were coming back,
03:52obviously he had to give us economy tickets.
03:54So I was like,
03:55how did all this change today?
03:58So you got the economy seat.
03:59Yes, so I got the economy seat.
04:00And the plane was the same,
04:03the staff was the same.
04:04And earlier when the staff was asking us
04:06who we were,
04:07the singer next to me was saying,
04:10Michael Jackson?
04:11India, Michael Jackson.
04:14So now that staff is coming in economy too.
04:17And we got to know that this is the real thing
04:20from where we have to start.
04:22So I did the whole journey like this.