In 1998, playback singer Shankar Mahadevan was catapulted to fame by a one-of-a-kind song. The famous Breathless song was a "steady stream of a song that goes on without a break, stanzas, verse or apparently even a pause for breath".
But the song was not rendered by him without a breath. It was not sung at a stretch without pauses. It was edited and made to look like it was a breathless song.
But does it take away from Shankar Mahadevan's greatness? His fans don't feel so.
The singer's fans argue that songs meant for albums are always edited, no matter what. After the Breathless song became hugely popular, Shankar Mahadevan has sung it on various occasions, and each time, it was real. "The idea is to incorporate a technique where you take multiple short breaths while singing, not sing a whole song in one continuous breath. That is humanly impossible, even for artists as talented as he. That’s how he performs Breathless live, too," a music lover named Tris writes. "It's a singing technique where you take short breaths but fast enough that most can't tell. That's how he sang live. Truly believed, that's how he sang in the studio too," wrote Lilith.
