New Delhi, Jan. 28 -- Nobody retires from playback singing at their prime. Nobody. Unless he is Arijit Singh.

Arijit Singh, one of the finest playback singers ever born in India, announced on 27 January that he would stop taking new playback-singing assignments. He thanked listeners for years of love and called his journey as a film singer wonderful.

He said the decision had been on his mind for a long time, and he had finally found the courage to step away. He added that the excitement of change now brings him joy.

"I am calling it off. It was a wonderful journey," he wrote on Twitter (now X).

"Ab aayega maza (Now, the real fun will begin)!!" he wrote later.

But, why did Arijit Singh retire? According to him, there is no single reas...