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Sonu Nigam's top holiday hotspots
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2/12/2025
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Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam shares with Gulf News tabloid! his favourite holiday destinations.
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00:00
What was your most memorable holiday as a kid?
00:02
We never took holidays.
00:05
You'll be happy to know.
00:06
Why would that make me happy?
00:12
Sonu, welcome to Dubai.
00:13
It's always nice to have you.
00:15
We have seen you on stage.
00:16
This is the first time I'm seeing you.
00:17
Very relaxed.
00:19
You're on holiday mood, clearly.
00:20
Absolutely, absolutely.
00:21
Completely.
00:22
This is a family kind of reunion with our family over here.
00:27
So, we're just here for two days.
00:29
I have to tell you, this is the biggest mansion that I've ever been to.
00:34
It is massive.
00:34
So, is this how you holiday?
00:36
Always in style?
00:37
He's like my real brother.
00:40
We have been connected for the last 21 years.
00:49
Accidentally, he's also doing well in his life, which is fine.
00:52
What kind of a holiday traveler are you?
00:54
We ask you this because Eid is just around the corner.
00:57
We have four days coming up.
00:59
It's going to be quite cool.
01:02
I am an avid traveler.
01:04
And I make sure that if I'm going to a place for a concert,
01:11
I've now started taking four or five days off.
01:14
So, I had a concert in Azerbaijan last year.
01:18
So, I took my father and my best friend from my childhood.
01:21
So, we went there.
01:22
After the concert, we stayed there for five days.
01:25
We partied and literally saw the place.
01:28
There is a lot to see in Baku.
01:31
Then after that, I had a concert in Shanghai.
01:33
Again, I took my father and my best friend.
01:35
And after Shanghai, we took a flight to Beijing.
01:38
And we stayed in Beijing for six days.
01:40
And the great wall of China and everything.
01:43
So, with your father and your best friend?
01:45
With my childhood best friend, yeah.
01:46
Oh, wow.
01:47
Because Nivaan had schools, so he couldn't come often.
01:51
So, Madhu had to be with him.
01:53
But then again, last year, just me and Madhu, we went to Canada.
01:59
We went to Lake Tahoe in USA.
02:02
Las Vegas.
02:02
For the first time, I did Las Vegas.
02:04
Then we went to New Jersey.
02:08
So, yeah.
02:08
Because I keep traveling anyways to America.
02:11
But sometimes, it is just good to not have any work there.
02:15
And just see around.
02:17
When you say you go to places for concerts,
02:20
I know many people who actually plan the year.
02:22
As per where the artist is performing.
02:24
Be it UK, be it...
02:26
Do you do that as an artist, as a singer yourself?
02:28
Do you look at other singers perhaps and then plan?
02:31
Or is it not something you do at all?
02:34
Like go for, say, Lady Gaga or any other concert at all?
02:38
You don't do that?
02:39
No, no, no.
02:39
We don't do that.
02:40
By chance, if somebody is there somewhere.
02:42
But that also is a rare opportunity.
02:44
We were fans of Michael Jackson.
02:46
If there would have been something that I would have wanted to see,
02:48
it would have been Michael Jackson.
02:50
So, those days are gone.
02:52
What was your most memorable holiday as a kid?
02:56
We never took holidays.
02:57
You will be happy to know.
02:58
Why would that be?
03:02
My parents never took us to any vacation.
03:04
That's very depressing.
03:05
As an adult, I'm changing the question.
03:06
But we couldn't afford it at that point.
03:08
But then, when we grew up, I took lots of vacations with my parents.
03:10
Yeah, tell us about...
03:11
I like the fact that you holiday with your dad.
03:13
What is the most fun thing that you guys do together?
03:16
We sing a lot when we're together.
03:18
And I know my father's music.
03:19
Because older music, I'm grown up on.
03:22
So, he has a good company in me.
03:23
Because I know about S.D. Batesh.
03:26
And I would know about N. Dutta.
03:28
And all the names that people today don't...
03:30
And you know who they are.
03:30
Exactly. So, I know about them.
03:32
So, you're a great company.
03:34
What is your funniest holiday memory?
03:37
Funniest holiday memory?
03:41
I can't remember right now.
03:43
What's a fun thing that you did with your son?
03:45
You can just do it.
03:47
My son...
03:50
Oh, we did skiing last year.
03:52
This year.
03:54
In Switzerland.
03:55
And I did a good job.
03:57
And I felt nice teaching myself something new at this age.
04:00
Oh, that's great.
04:02
Me, my wife and my son, we did it.
04:03
My son was going from the school.
04:05
But I learnt in one day.
04:06
And the next two days, I was flying.
04:08
Really? Oh, fantastic.
04:09
So, what kind of a holiday traveler are you?
04:12
Are you the kind of meat picking?
04:13
How to travel in style?
04:14
Or can you do backpacking?
04:16
I, of course, I can do backpacking.
04:17
I don't have...
04:18
I do not believe in luxury living and all this.
04:22
There are some friends of mine...
04:22
I love it.
04:23
The irony is, we are sitting here in like a very plush house.
04:26
I don't believe in luxury.
04:27
Yeah, because I said, accidentally he's rich.
04:29
If he was not rich, he would still be my brother, you see.
04:32
So...
04:32
Okay, fair enough, fair enough.
04:33
And your favorite destination of all the countries
04:36
and consuls that you've gone to perhaps?
04:39
One of the...
04:39
There can be no one favorite.
04:41
But India has a lot of beautiful places.
04:43
So, a lot of places in India are good.
04:46
Another place I loved a lot was Azerbaijan.
04:49
Baku, as you said.
04:49
Yeah, Baku was great.
04:51
You've been there, no?
04:52
Yeah, yeah.
04:52
I went with my girlfriends.
04:54
Okay.
04:54
Three days.
04:55
Amazing place.
04:56
It's still cheaper than Europe, you see.
04:58
Yeah, and you know what?
04:59
The people are lovely.
05:01
I wish there's a language barrier, but there's a lot of...
05:03
We don't speak our language.
05:04
There's a lot of things to see.
05:05
Yeah, but good fun.
05:06
Yeah, yeah.
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