Bollywood movies depend on the playback artists who record the songs that are mimed by the actors on screen. It's a role that demands great singers, as shown by the success of the legendary Asha Bhosle, and Sukhwinder Singh is one of the most successful contemporary exponents, best known to western audiences for the song Jai Ho in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire. He has a fine, powerful voice and a stirring repertoire, but if he wants an international career as a concert performer he needs to improve his stagecraft.

Backed by a six-piece band, featuring two keyboard players and three percussionists, he came on sporting a flamboyant yellow blazer with fake tiger-fur lapels and matching tiger turn-ups on his trousers, and began by talking, at length. He told stories in English, then in Hindi and Punjabi, before eventually launching into Chaiyya Chaiyya from the film Dil Se. Once he started singing, he was magnificent, starting slowly but powerfully, then speeding up for the slinky, stomping and percussive chorus, helped by the singer Madhvi Srivastav and four male backing singers.

But Singh couldn't stop talking. He even broke off for a chat halfway through the first song, and continued in the same style all night. When he got around to it, he produced some rousing and classic Bollywood pop, from the exuberant Marjani Marjani, for which he was surrounded by 12 spirited dancers, to the more thoughtful Layi Vi Na Gayi. At one point he mysteriously left the stage, allowing the singer Madhuri Pandey to take over, and when he returned he was still talking at length, but now running out of time. The finale included a lively Chak De! India, and a glorious Jai Ho, sung from out in the delighted crowd. Like any good Bollywood movie, Singh needs a firm producer.