Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty is all set to make a comeback in movies after 14 years with Priyadarshan’s Hungama 2. On Tuesday, the actress treated fans with the remake of her hit 90s song Chura Ke Dil Mera in which she can be seen grooving with Meezaan Jaferi. The song originally featured Shilpa Shetty and Akshay Kumar. In the reprised version of the song, Shilpa and Meezaan have even recreated the signature pelvic thrusts from the original song. However, looks like the fans aren’t very impressed with the remake. Netizens have expressed their disappointment in makers ‘ruining’ iconic 90s songs by giving it a completely new twist.
Shilpa Shetty shared the songs saying “Here it is, OLD wine in a NEW Bottle.” While fans preferred to have it to stay old and classic. Reacting to the song, one Twitter user said, “and they ruined chura ke dil mera brilliantly.” Another tweeted, “One more classic song, Chura ke dil mera has been killed by today’s composers. Stop ruining old songs.” Another Twitter user still found the song better than the recreated version of Delhi 6 song Masakali. “Even though not better than the original, Chura ke dil mera 2.0 is atleast better than Masakali 2.0,” the tweet read.
We reach out to Sanu and Yagnik to know their take. The former tells us, “Mujhe naya wala sunke bauhaut achha laga, in the voice of new singers. I didn’t know it was being recreated for this film. It was earlier planned for some other production, but done for another one.”
Yagnik too says she did not know about this new version coming out. “But that is okay. It sounds cute, though very different from the original,” she adds.
People who have been in the music world for long are not too pleased with this trend meanwhile. Lyricist Sameer, who has seen a lot of his songs such as Ankhiyon Se Goli Maare and Dilbar be recreated, says, “The question is not to recreate, it is about not destroying the originality of the song. If you are doing something for the betterment, it is okay. Try not to disturb the basic structure though, Imagine, if there is a song Lata (Mangeshkar) ji has sung, and you take some new singer (for recreation), what are you doing? That way you are ruining the song.”
