Ramcharan dropped from the item song, now 100 (yes, one hundred!) male dancers will be seen grooving alongside the actress.
The impact of Priyanka Chopra’s first item song in Shootout At Wadala was diluted, thanks to Sunny Leone. Moving on, she’s not taking any risks. She is hell-bent on getting her song in Zanjeer right. We hear the lyrics by Shabbir Ahmed had to go for a second round of refurbishment.
Says an insider from the project, “Initially Priyanka was very sure she wanted non-suggestive lyrics and movements. But then the words came out a little flat. So the lyrics had to be livened-up without losing their innocuousness. We finally zeroed in on these lines Mumbai Na Dilliwallon Ki, Pinky Hai Dilwaalon Ki. Priyanka felt this was saucy but not suggestive. And we went with that. No one is allowed to call it an ‘item song’ because Priyanka wanted the number to be free from implications of commodifying women. It is called a special song.”
We hear the song, which was shot over the last four days in Mumbai last week, has been given an added boost. Keeping it vulgarity-free, Priyanka wanted, in the words of the source, the lyrics and movements to be “free of flab but nonetheless fab”. The brief during the shooting of the song to choreographer Ganesh Acharya was to make it bigger, bouncier, brighter than Katrina’s Chikni Chameli. But without the pelvic thrusts, heaves and aggressive gyrations.
A tall order. The format of Priyanka’s ‘special song’ has been radically revised. While earlier Priyanka was to dance with Ramcharan Teja for the number she has now opted to sizzle solo for the song...well, sort of. Says the source from the sets, “Ram will have his own item song that would be used only in the Telugu version of Zanjeer. For Priyanka’s special song there are 100 male dancers... And keeping in mind the new censor board diktat for item songs specifying “no touching only dancing” all the male dancers had to maintain a hands-off position with Priyanka.”
The Meet brothers who have composed Pinky Hai Dilwaalon Ki were also closely instructed. Says the source, “The beats had to be vivacious but not overly provocative.
And Mamta Sharma, who sang Munni Badnaam for Malaika Arora in Dabangg and Fevicol Se for Kareena Kapoor in Dabangg 2 and has crooned Pinky for Priyanka, was told to go easy on the grunts and the groans.”
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