Lata Mangeshkar Unhappy With Chalte Chalte Reprise
Lata Mangeshkar’s Chalte Chalte for the film Pakeezah is the single lyrics that tells about the lost love of an entire generation. The song was picturised on Meena Kumari for the period epic Pakeezah and remains one of the most enduring songs and sequences from that kind of film making.
Now, Atif Aslam has reprised the song for the film Mitron, which stars Jackky Bhagnani and Kritika Kamra. Chalte Chalte is one of the most revered song in India, not just because of the song’s pedigree but also because of the distinct tone and sound design of the song. During a media interaction, Lata Mangeshkar has said that she has not heard the rendition and will not want to hear it too. She questioned the concept of lifting tunes and shuffling the lyrics around in the name of creativity. She also asked on whose authority were these remixes made.
The aspect of song ownership has been a problem since a long time. Few know that the concept of songs for films is that a music director makes a song, pays a particular singer to rendition that song, and then sells the entire IP to a music house. Therefore, while the creative aspect of singing a song is held sacred, any music company that owns the right to a particular song can call for its rendition. Even singers are not very happy with the reprises of songs and have time and again talked about music companies misusing song rights. Hear the song here: