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There are fan moments and then there are moments that carry an entirely different weight. At a recent promotional event for his upcoming film Toxic, PAN-India superstar Yash was asked about his favourite Telugu songs, the ones he finds himself humming often. And his answer was immediate, warm, and very specific.
“I love that Dekho Dekho Gabbar Singh. I like one more song. Aakaleste Annam Pedta.” And then, without missing a beat, he added the line that has since set the internet alight. “All the DSP songs. He is a dear friend. All his songs I really like.” Yash’s candid admission was enough to say everything about a friendship and a musical bond that spans industries, languages, and careers.
The shoutout is not surprising to anyone who knows the two. Yash and Rockstar DSP share a genuine friendship, and that warmth comes through clearly in the way Yash speaks about his music.
Gabbar Singh and Aakaleste Annam Pedta are not new releases. They are songs from a different chapter of Telugu cinema altogether, and the fact that Yash is still a fan of those tunes, proves what we have always known about DSP’s music, it with you. Not because it tries to. But because it is just that good.
The timing of Yash’s words is not lost on anyone following Rockstar DSP’s current momentum. Fresh off the critical acclaim of Sing Geetham, the release of his debut movie Yellamma’s first look as Parshi on his birthday, and a blockbuster four-city US concert tour, DSP is in the middle of one of the most remarkable stretches of his career.
And with one of Indian cinema’s biggest stars voluntarily name-dropping him as a dear friend whose music he cannot stop humming, that shows the natural pull of a legacy that keeps drawing people in, regardless of which industry they come from.
