Ananya Birla, who recently made her Hindi singing debut with Let There Be Love remix ft. King and Rahul Sathu, is currently basking the success of her song. The 26-year-old singer, who has impressed her fans with several English tracks, planned to make her Hindi debut and prove how proud she is to be an Indian, despite comments calling her out for not singing in Hindi. 

Ananya, who is the daughter of business tycoon Kumar Mangalam Birla and Neerja Birla, feels money cannot buy success for her. Ask her about dealing with hatred and the singer calls it 'tough but a part of life'. 

Excerpts from the interview: 

What prompted you to make your Hindi singing debut?

I always wanted to sing one Hindi song. I make English songs because I like to sing what I write and I write better in English, I think in English. So when I wanted to make my Hindi singing debut, I wanted someone to understand my vision and then I met Rahul. He understood what I wanted correctly and that's how it happened. 

Why a remix of your song Let There Be Love and not a new one for the Hindi debut?

I am very grateful that I started off my Hindi singing journey with Let There Be Love because of the message that it has. But English singing is my forte so my next one is in English. 

With all the hate on the internet, how do you let there be love? 

It's very tough. Like I would read 9 nice comments and only 1 bad comment but my mind will ignore all those 9 comments and focus on just that 1 bad comment. So, for this video, I haven't read any of the comments. You just have to keep moving on and doing your own thing. We are all human and it is tough but. A comment in the song called you a disgrace to the Indian culture.

Did you actually get comments like these? 

Oh ya, all the time. That's the big one. People used to tell me are you ashamed to be Indian. So I wanted to put that comment in the song to show that I am in fact a proud Indian. The song begins with hate comments on social media. How do you deal with it in real life?

How tough was it to make your name in the music industry? 

The love that I get from all my fans keeps me going. The thought that people want to collaborate with me makes me so happy. But it was very tough. Initially, people weren't even willing to listen to my music because they thought that it was all because of the money I had. It was very tough to break that. Now, with every song people see that I have the talent and I am hardworking. In the end, money does not go to the studio to sing and write for you, it has to come from your heart.