Ekta Kapoor signed Gauhar Khan to perform Helen ‘s popular cabaret number “Piya tu ab to aaja” in her upcoming venture “Once Upon A Time in Mumbai” which will be most expensive cabaret ever shot in Bollywood.
Gauhar danced to the beats of “Piya tu ab to aaja” so hard last week that a shard of shattered glass wounded her leg.
Pritam Chakraborty, who has given music to the song, says he refused to do a straight remix of “Piya tu…”
“I really see no point in doing a straight-off remix specially when it’s an R.D. Burman track. That means the original is still fresh in the listeners’ mind. Why should I tamper with an evergreen? So what I’ve done for Milan’s cabaret is to incorporate just a bit of RD’s ‘Piya to ab to aaja’ from ‘Caravan’ and ‘Duniya mein logon ko’ from ‘Apna Desh’. The rest of the song is my original composition,” Pritam speaks.
Apparently when Gauhar heard the song, she flipped out.
“Yes, they all loved the song. But I won’t do a re-mix of an R.D. Burman or any other composition,” said Pritam.
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