Bollywood remixed!

Old Hindi chartbusters have always been a favourite and surprisingly, they continue to have the same popularity among the young generation as well.

Film-maker Sajid Khan whose last release Housefull had the remixed version of an old Hindi song, Apni Toh Jaise Taise, couldn’t seem to agree more.

“It was a really popular number and by remixing it and giving it a more contemporary feel we have only made it much more popular. As much as people would like to debate on this, songs are an extremely integral part of a movie. And it was a great club dance number.

The very fact that the song opens up to the new generation revived is the biggest selling point of these chart busters. I’d be game for another remix,” says Sajid.

In a few cases, however, these songs are used to get the old world charm back into the theatres. For instance, film-maker Milan Luthria had earlier said that he had remixed the old version of Piya Tu in Once Upon A Time In Mumbaai because it was apt for the era the film was set in.

“I included that song because that was the era of discos and cabarets.”

Music composer Shekhar Ravijani, of Vishal-Shekhar duo who worked on the remixed version of the very famous song Bachna Ae Haseeno, sees this as a trend on the rise.

“It is working very well for a lot of films. I, as a listener, would prefer to hear an original. But if somebody modified an old tune in an interesting way, I’d like to hear it and would also want to see the name of the original composer. It is like collaboration. If Panchamda (RD Burman) was alive, I would have given my right arm to collaborate with him and make a track. We were really fortunate to work on his title track for Bachna Ae Haseeno. It was our tribute to him.”