Actor-lyricist-singer Piyush Mishra’s musical band Ballimaaraan kicked off this yr’s live performance tour, Aarambh 2023, with an electrical efficiency at Nexus Elante in Chandigarh on Saturday.

The viewers had a novel expertise of stay interactions in between songs the place Mishra shared nuggets of knowledge and talked concerning the ‘dichotomy of Mumbai’, fame, the golden interval of the ’70s, concern of India turning into Hamlet’s Denmark, his struggles with alcohol, and way more.

On success, the Gangs of Wasseypur The actor-singer stated, “You get success only if you work for it. I started getting work quite late in life, so people often ask, ‘Why didn’t you quit?’ Par main karmheenta ki zindagi nahin jeena chahta tha (I didn’t want to lead a life of inactivity). Because I believe if you’re inactive, you’re as good as dead. I just wanted to work, no matter the result.”

“And, by the time I got stardom, if we can even call it that, I was married and my kids were all grown up so I didn’t know how to enjoy it. Mujhe aiyaashi ka waqt hi nahin mila,” he added.

To the viewers’s chants of ‘Love you, Piyush ji’, his tongue-in-cheek response was ‘Arre! There is not any spouse at my home, man.

The band carried out their hit songs, together with Aarambh Hai Prachand, Ghar, Ik Bagal Mein Chand Hoga, Husna and Uth Ja Bhau on the live performance, leaving the viewers asking for extra.

“This was our first time performing in Chandigarh and we couldn’t have asked for a better audience,” stated Mishra, whose band included metropolis lad Nishant Agarwal on guitar, Jayant Patnaik on percussion, Shovon Mukherjee because the bass guitarist and Rahul Gandhi as backing vocals.

Towards the top of the present, Nishant revealed that it was in Chandigarh that the concept of ​​forming the band was conceived. “We met at a literary festival and I told him that I’m a fan. We got to talking music, self-doubt, and more; and eventually came up with the idea of ​​Ballimaaraan — a musical homage to the doyen of Urdu poetry, Mirza Ghalib,” he shared.