Big B s song dropped from Baabul

The title song of director Ravi Chopra's Baabul is supposedly Amitabh Bachchan's most poignant number ever and reduced even his pragmatic wife Jaya to tears.

But what is possibly Amitabh's career's best song is missing from the album. Instead, it is rendered by Jagjit Singh.

A strange state of affairs since Amitabh has composed the song and took time off to record it. Curiously, Bhushan Kumar of T Series, who has released the Baabul album, has no knowledge of the Amitabh's contribution to the theme song.

Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini at the music launch of the film Baabul.

Aadesh admits the whole rush release has created an awkward situation."Jagjit Singh did ask me what was the arrangement. I explained to him that there're two distinct versions of the theme song. Each time Amitji comes on screen we'll be playing his version."

Will Amitabh be credited for his song? "He doesn't want any credit. He just loves creating music with me. In fact, we'll soon be doing a whole album of UP folk songs together. Amitji told me, 'Aadesh, let's get together and freak out'."