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Before you start working, just read up on the basics of civil procedure (would recommend Mulla's Key to Civil Practice) and substantive law such as IBC, Companies Act etc and you will be fine. Remember that you cannot know everything about the law due to which it is alright to have broad strokes knowledge (so long as it is not too broad strokes).
Anyway, you gotta have a solid command of civil procedure even if you go for any "technical laws". It's not like it's an altogether separate branch.
Of course, you could just be in a bubble and just do writ petitions. You'd be away from "age old civil criminal corporate and tax". But that's not "technical".
I also wonder what remains if you take away "age old civil criminal corporate and tax".
It's tough. Plenty is written daily on this website about how the pay is peanuts and working conditions terrible. Any excitement of working for the cause of justice, too, fades when confronted with the ground realities (especially at the trial level).
The only thing that can keep you going in such a scenario, then, is your passion & if you have a strong reason/vision/whatever-you-may-like-to-call-it, which keeps you going for reasons other than pay etc.
Go towards litigation if this is what you GENUINELY want, not half-heartedly as a plan B. We all know people who wasted years in litigation only to quit for something else. Nothing wrong with that either, to be honest - to figure out where your heart lies and pivot accordingly.