Lata Mangeshkar saddened by Atif Aslam's 'Chalte chalte'.

MUMBAI: For those who revere Lata
Mangeshkars "Chalte chalte yuhi koi mil
gaya tha", the mellow 'mujra' melody
composed by the great Ghulam
Mohammed for the mythic Meena
Kumaris swan song in Pakeezah, the
new version of the song by Pakistan
singer Atif Aslam for a Bollywood film
titled Mitron, is a shocker.
It takes the delicate notes of the
original tune, wrenches them out of
context and leaves us with a spill-over
version of the original which no one
can identify as the memorabilia from
Pakeezah, except those responsible for
this duplication.
And the composition is credited to
Tanishk Bagchi.
Lata Mangeshkar, the living legend
who sang the song in Pakeezah to
immortality, has luckily not heard Atif's
version.
"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."
Singer and BJP MP Babul Supriyo, no
fan of Ati's singing, said, "Today, even
the 'poetic' term 'artistic liberty' is at
the verge of extinction. With due
respect (and disrespect) to Atif Aslam,
as a singer myself, I will observe a two
minute silence to mourn rather than
offering a comment."
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
superhit if they can, instead of picking
up an already superhit song, distorting
it, and releasing it again... and then
saying, 'See, 'It's become so popular'!
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"Chalo humaare gaanon ke saath ye
zulm kartey hain (They do this with
our songs)... but their audacity is
increasing by the day. Now they have
started doing this to Lata Didi's song
as well."
Pahlaj Nihalani, the former Chairperson
of censor board, wonders why
Bollywood is looking towards Pakistan
for music.
"Every day there is an incident. Our
soldiers are being killed. We 'an't say
artistes are immune to politics. At the
end of the day, they are citizens of
their country first, artistes later."
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