The BUZZ

REMIX? AGAIN?

Sure, they were fun when it started. It was nice, nostalgic even, to hear our favourite old songs being remixed into new, foot-tapping numbers with snazzy videos, but now, it’s gotten old. So old. Karan Johar certainly seems to think so.

"Oh God, another remix?" Johar rightfully asks in the reboot version of Aankh Marey in Sara Ali Khan and Ranveer Singh starrer Simmba. It’s as though there’s no originality anymore, he laments. Some of these “new” songs include Tere bin, Chamma chamma, Paisa yeh paisa and the latest Mungda starring Sonakshi Sinha.

Interestingly, some musicians believe they are like tributes to legendary composers. "The 1970s' and 1980s' music was so legendary that our new generation is rediscovering it in their own way and recreating it. The current generation is dancing to those tunes and paying tribute to those legendary composers and singers," says Subhro J Ganguly, who’s sung Paisa yeh paisa and Mungda.

Yeah, right.

Arshad, who also featured in the remixed version of his own song Aankh Marey from the film Tere Mere Sapne, finds the viral trend fun. "I personally feel there is no harm in recreating songs. I did Aankh Mareyin 1996 or 1997. A whole generation did not know about the song, but today everyone knows it because they all went back and Googled it. It's fine, and something that is nice for people to go back and see, and for the new generation to seeing it too," he says.