Thanks to the late Yash Chopra’s considerate
intervention Adnan Sami is all set to finally get his Indian
citizenship. Not too many people know this. But Yashji was Adnan’s
guarantor for his Indian passport.
Says Adnan emotionally, “Yash Uncle and Pam Aunty were the first
family I had in Mumbai. They made sure I never felt like an outsider.
Thanks to Yash Uncle I began to feel like a part of Bollywood and Mumbai
in no time at all.”
While sharing such close bonds with the Chopra family Adnan
naturally turned to the Chopra patriarch for help to get his Indian
citizenship.
Says Adnan, “Before he passed away Yash Uncle made sure all the
paper work for my Indian passport was done. Thanks to him I am likely to
get an Indian passport.”
Adnan refuses to believe that current tensions between India and
Pakistan would obviate efforts to bring the two countries together on a
cultural level.
“I’ve never felt any hostility .India is as much my country as
anyone else’s. You can’t write off 70 years of a relationship just
because there are some stormy moments in the journey,” says Adnan who
has sung a song for the Punjabi composers Meet Brothers in Sanjay
Gupta’s ‘Shootout At Wadala’.
“It is John Abraham’s introductory song. It’s a very Mumbai song,
robust and typifying the mood of the city. I could feel the vibes of the
city while singing the song. Mumbai is addictive. Once you live here
your heart refuses to wander to any other part of the world in search of
a home,” says Adnan.
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