Exclusive! Golmaal fame Anushka Manchanda aka Kiss Nuka quits Bollywood: Quite far from it

Singer Anushka Manchanda known for some hit songs like the ones in Rohit Shetty’s Golmaal series has decided to quit Bollywood. The singer who is now known as Kiss Nuka talks leaving B’wood and confesses she doesn’t make the money like she used to before.

Anushka Manchanda rechristened herself as Kiss Nuka, a ‘raw’ avatar that the singer donned to focus on songs that align with her. “I decided to give myself a different name because I felt that there was a big difference in the music that I had been doing under my name (Anushka) which is primarily composed by other people while I came to perform, as opposed to the music, art and visuals that I wanted to make myself. I wanted to create that separation,” Kiss Nuka shares.

Kiss Nuka aka Anushka Manchanda (Photo credits : Apurva Jadhav)

So does that mean Manchanda has quit Bollywood? “Yes,” pat comes the reply. The singer known for some hit songs like Golmaal, Dum Maaro Dum, did her last playback job in 2017 with Aate Jaate Hanste Gaate (Golmaal Again) before disappearing slyly.

“I don’t know if I can go back to doing what I was doing (earlier). A lot of time when you are required to come and sing you don’t really have a say in the lyrical content of the track, in the story or how it is going to be projected. I stand for a lot of things. So, it’s difficult to go back in (that) space and give that control. But also never say never. What if there’s a project where everything is aligned, and they feel exactly the way I do. They are as invested in it as I am. Maybe, then I’ll be open to it. (For now) I’m quite far from it (Bollywood),” she elaborates.