This weekend’s Sunday Brunch with Kamiya Jani was steeped in the flavours of Bombay with misal pav, vada pav, bhel puri, and aloo ki chaat. But amid the crunch and chatter, the episode took a tender turn when singer-songwriter Karan Aujla began to peel back the layers of his past, speaking about a chapter marked by grief and unexpected discovery.
Karan Aujla Reveals Details About The First Song He Wrote
Karan Aujla talked about the hard times he went through in his childhood after losing both parents. He remembered moving in with relatives, their generosity forming a cushion around him. “They used to cook beautiful food for me,” he recalled warmly. Yet even in that care, nights felt heavy. He described slipping away into his own room and sitting in silence. That quiet, instead of swallowing him, began to whisper in the form of words.
When we asked if this was the seed of his songwriting, he laughed at the memory of those first scribbles. Writing wasn’t planned, he explained. He said that his first song had a very heart-wrenching core; it was about how he felt he had nothing to live for.
How Did Songwriting Begin For Him?
But, soon enough, he looked at his writing and realised that, “yeh toh rhyme ho rahi hai.” He grinned at the absurdity of grief stumbling into rhythm. Soon, he had whole notebooks filled. He said, “Phir to maine copyian bharni shuru kardi.”
What makes his recollection striking is the way he tells it, by blending half confession with half joke. He spoke of those early days with a boyish amusement. “Soorajmukhi dekha toh uske baare mein likh diya, darwaza dekha uske baare mein likh diya,” he said, laughing at how anything in sight, from flowers to doors, maybe even the food on the table, could inspire a line.
The conversation never sat too long in sorrow. It moved like the meal itself, light, which was layered and spiced with humour. Creativity, in Karan Aujla’s telling, wasn’t a lofty pursuit; it was something that arrived in the quietest hours and attached itself to the most ordinary objects.
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For viewers, the message lingered long after the plates were cleared: behind every lyric lies a trail of lived moments. Some are sharp with loss, others as small as a flower glimpsed by chance. And in Karan Aujla’s story, both carry equal weight.
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