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While films running for 150 weeks to Golden Jubilees and more adorned the smash-hit films of our legendary composers and lyricists, they all worked before the era of the 100-plus crore grossers. The 100-Crore club is likely to see a new benchmark with Dhurandhar—The Revenge, is likely to near, touch or cross 1000 crore.
However, many of the legends have made backdoor entries here, some even thrice or more times, thanks to the re-creations of their songs.
And most of their creations have hit the roof in popularity in an era dominated by Pritam, Amit Trivedi, Sachin-Jigar, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Vishal-Shekhar and many others.
The single high benchmark for re-creations comes in the two films of the Dhurandhar franchise itself, that also has re-created non-film numbers. Let us look at the film fraternity among these songs. Shashwat Sachdev is the composer who has scored the complete soundtrack.
Dhurandhar and Dhurandhar The Revenge:
And it is very likely that such eclectic soundtracks will soon become a trend in the big movies to come.
The lyrics of Roshan’s Na to karvaan ki talash hain is blended seamlessly into Sachdev’s original track, Ishq jalaakar, by lyricist Irshad Kamil, and of the classic, Yeh ishq ishq hai in Move (Reble). Both songs were originally penned by Sahir Ludhianvi for Barsaat Ki Raat (1960).
Anand-Milind’s Hum pyar karne wale (penned by Sameer for Dil in 1990) is blended with English Rap by Qveen Herby. Kalyanji-Anandji & Viju Shah’s Oye oye (written by Anand Bakshi for 1989’s Tridev) is blended into Rang de Lal, penned by Jasmine Sandlas and Reble, while R.D. Burman’s Majrooh Sultanpuri-written Piya tu ab to aaja(Caravan / 1971) is a part of Run down the city (with lyrics by Reble again).
Bappi Lahiri’s original Rambha ho (Armaan / 1981) is classically re-created in upbeat fashion by re-arranging the original lyrics by Indeevar. And the prelude music of Laxmikant-Pyarelal-Anand Bakshi’s Om shanti on from the 1980s Karz is effectively employed as a background piece in the first film.
The four reworks of Border 2:
This year, another film, Border 2, which was a success and is coincidentally also a patriotic film like Dhurandhar, has employed four original Anu Malik creations from the 1997 Border, which were all written by Javed Akhtar. These were Ae jaate hue lamhon, Sandesen aate hain, Hamein tumse mohabbat and Hindustan meri jaan. With the exception of the first, the remaining three songs also had additional lyrics by Manoj Muntashir and these re-creations were all done by Mithoon. Crows Malik, “A good melody remains a good melody! These are the only four songs that have worked from the new film!”
Anu Malik in full steam:
In the 100-plus crore era, Anu Malik has never had any of his few films reach that level. But in Golmaal Again (2017), Malik’s nephew, Amaal Mallik, was entrusted the assignment of redoing Neend churayi from Anu Malik-Javed Akhtar’s Ishq. Kumaar wrote the lyrics into which this 1997 song was blended. (In the same film, Abhishek Arora re-created the Raamlaxman-Dev Kohli classic Aate jaate hanste jaate from the 1989 Maine Pyar Kiya).
Anu Malik even sang a re-creation of his own song, Oonchi hai building, for Judwaa 2, the reboot version of his Judwaa (1997) under Sandeep Shirodkar. Shirodkar also re-created another creation of Malik here, the cult Chalti hai kya 9 se 12. Both originals had also been penned by Dev Kohli.
And how interesting it is to ponder on the fact that all the 100-crore films that incorporated Malik’s work were 1997 releases—Border, Ishq and Judwaa!
