{"id":444355,"date":"2026-01-29T04:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444355\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T04:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:13:09","slug":"virat-kohlis-old-tweet-about-arijit-singh-goes-viral-as-he-announces-retirement-from-playback-singing-im-short-of-words-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/444355\/","title":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli’s old tweet about Arijit Singh goes viral as he announces retirement from playback singing: ‘I’m short of words’ | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Virat Arijit Singh<\/a> sent shockwaves through the music fraternity on Tuesday after announcing that he is stepping away from playback singing, a decision that left fans, musicians and filmmakers stunned. As reactions poured in across social media, old posts by cricketer Virat Kohli<\/a> resurfaced, once again highlighting his long-standing admiration for the singer.Soon after Arijit\u2019s announcement, a tweet shared by Kohli in 2016 began circulating online. In the post, dated January 26, 2016, the former Indian captain had written, \u201cI am probably one of the biggest fans of Arijit Singh. Mesmerized by his talent and soulful voice. I am short of words actually.\u201dAnother throwback post featuring a picture of Kohli with Arijit has also gone viral. The ace cricketer shared a photo with the singer and wrote, “Pure fanboy moment for me. What an amazing person he is. No one has captivated me with their voice like this man. God bless you Arijit.” Fans were quick to draw parallels between Arijit Singh\u2019s unexpected announcement and Virat Kohli\u2019s own surprise retirement from Test cricket last year. One user commented, \u201cArijit is the Virat Kohli of music. His retirement has left me in shock,\u201d while another observed, \u201cBoth chose to retire when they were at the top of their game.\u201dSome reactions took a humorous turn as well. One fan joked, \u201cKohli retired from tests. Arijit retired from singing. But \u2018Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai\u2019 is still playing on TV.\u201dIn his social media statement, Arijit clarified that his decision applies only to playback singing and not to music as a whole. He explained that he now wants to focus on Indian classical music and his own compositions. \u201cI will make my own music. Will come up with my music whenever I am ready. I am going back to Indian Classical Music. I wanna go back to making music. I wanna start again,\u201d he wrote.Responding to fans on X, Arijit also revealed that the decision had been in the works for a long time. \u201cThere is not one reason behind this, there are several reasons plus I have been trying to do this since a long time. Finally I have gathered the right courage,\u201d he shared.Speaking about his creative restlessness, the singer added, \u201cOne of the reasons is simple, I get bored pretty quick, that\u2019s why I keep changing arrangements of the same songs and perform them on stage. So here is the thing, I got bored. I need to do some other music to live.\u201dHe also mentioned his eagerness to see fresh voices emerge in the industry. \u201cAnother reason is I am excited to hear some singer come up and give me real motivation,\u201d Arijit wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arijit Singh sent shockwaves through the music fraternity on Tuesday after announcing that he is stepping away from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[18954,45114,230109,64,63,740,85,2131,230667],"class_list":{"0":"post-444355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-anushka-sharma","9":"tag-arijit-singh","10":"tag-arijit-singh-retirement","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-cricket","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-virat-kohli","16":"tag-virat-kohli-tweet"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}