Ace filmmaker Hansal Mehta is the latest Bollywood celebrity who has joined the latest online controversy surrounding the remix of ‘Masakali’, originally composed by AR Rahman for Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Delhi-6
The new version featuring Sidharth Malhotra and Tara Sutaria was released online recently only to garner scathing reviews both from critics as well as music lovers.
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The original track was written by Prasoon Joshi and sung by Mohit Chauhan.
In a tweet, Mehta said, ” We are complicit in this bastardisation of old songs. It is seen as a small price to pay for getting your film produced. Truth: it is a travesty. It is an insult to the original creator by an ecosystem that thrives on shit. Stop consuming shit. People will stop producing s**t.”
He also urged the public to reject recreation of old songs, and said, ” This ‘recreation’ of old songs can stop if the public rejects them. The numbers on YouTube for godawful versions of old songs are huge and hence music companies keep producing them. Stop viewing the videos. Stop listening to the songs. Stop playing them at events. They will stop.”
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This ‘recreation’ of old songs can stop if the public rejects them. The numbers on YouTube for godawful versions of old songs are huge and hence music companies keep producing them. Stop viewing the videos. Stop listening to the songs. Stop playing them at events. They will stop.
— Hansal Mehta (@mehtahansal) April 9, 2020