He didn't take my call: Amaal Malik comes clean on the Anu Malik and Neend Churayi remix controversy

Anu Malik’s hit song Neend Churayi Meri Kissne O Sanam from the 1997 film Ishq has found its way in Golmaal Again. The composer for the same is original composer Anu’s nephew Amaal Malik. However, Anu is miffed that they didn’t take his permission before using his tune.

Interjects Amaal, “We didn’t need to take his permission, actually.  We took the rights from them. We had taken the rights of the original song (Sending All My Love by Linear) on which the Neend Churayi tune is  based. However, I’d have liked to take my uncle’s permission. That seemed like the right thing to do. We even wanted him to sing the remix. It would have been nice nostalgic touch. But he wouldn’t entertain my calls. So I gave up.”

 Amaal is in principle opposed to adapting and re-mixing old songs, but this time, he just couldn’t turn away the request, “It came from Rohit Shetty and Ajay Devgn. They were really keen, and I just couldn’t say no. In fact, we had a completely different, original, composition ready for the situation. But we were asked to use this (Neend Churayi Meri) instead.”