The song ‘Chalte Chalte Yuhi Koi Mil Gaya Tha’ for the film Pakeezah has been recreated and remixed for a Bollywood film titled Mitron.
The living legend Lata Mangeshkar, who sang the original composition, hasn’t heard the Atif Aslam version and the singer says that she does not even want to.
Further, she slammed the trend of remaking old songs and said “And I don’t want to hear it. This trend of remixing old songs saddens me. Where is the creativity in simply lifting acknowledged, beloved classics and shuffling the notes around? I’ve even heard that the lyrics are changed in the remixes. By whose consent? The original poets and composers wrote what they had to. Nobody has the right to tamper with the creativity of these great composers and lyricists.”
Meanwhile, singer Alka Yagnik, whose song “Dilbar Dilbar” was recently remixed for Satyameva Jayate, said, “Why don’t they make a new song and make it a super hit if they can, instead of picking up an already super hit song, distorting it, and releasing it again… and then saying, See, it’s become so popular!”
“Chalo humaare gaanon ke saath ye zulm kartey hain… but their audacity is increasing by the day. Now they’ve started doing this to Lata Didi’s song as well,” Yagnik added.