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Buzzsouk Bollywood Review 2016: Old melodies are the New Hits

Old songs of Bollywood have its own charm, you just can’t get enough of it. Melodious voices of Jagjit Singh, Suresh Wadkar, Richa Sharma, Asha Bhonsle and much more are still the most magical voices to our ears. 2016 is the year when Bollywood got many of its old melodies back but with a little surprise. Some movies were released in 2016 but some of them are still lined up for 2017 and these movies are in headlines because of these old hits’ comeback. Few movies brought back the famous Punjabi numbers like Kapoor and Sons have ‘kargai Chull’, Ki & Ka added ‘High Heels’ and Baar Baar Dekho chose the hit 00’s Punjabi track ‘Kala Chashma’. Kala Chashma came back with an electrifying touch of rap by Badshah, a Lady voice of Neha Kakkar and the Punjabi flavor of Indeep Bakshi.

Here are some more 2016 Bollywood comeback numbers:

Akshay Kumar’s hit movie Airlift added a much popular Punjabi Track ‘Soch’ which was originally sung by Hardy Sandhu but Arijit gave his voice to the Hindi version song in the movie. It was loved then and now as well.
Tum Bin II was another movie that tried to spread the magic of Jagit Singh’s voice again after his death. The first movie, Tum Bin I got much affection for the story and especially for the song ‘Koi Fariyaad’ which was sung by the magician himself, Jagjit Singh. Even till today, this song is loved by many, so the team tried to recreate the magic again in Part II. Though no male voice can do the justice to this song so movie got a female version of ‘Teri Fariyaad’ and just used the old song between.ous song of Suresh Wadkar voice ‘Ae Zindagi Gale Laga le’. Here this song has two versions one is male sung by Arijit and the female one sung by Alia Bhatt herself. No doubt the old song magic can’t be compared but these versions were appreciated.
Wajah Tum Ho, a movie with newcomers of industry has got few old hits in the track list. Remember Dharmendra and Rakhi’s song ‘Pal Pal Dil ke Pass’ from the movie Blackmail, was sung by the great Kishore Kumar. This song was recreated for the new movie in Arijit and Tulsi Kumar’s voice. Not just this, the top item number of Malaika Arora in 00’s ‘Mahi Ve’ from the movie Kaante was sung by Richa Sharma, is also a part of this movie but this time its Zareen Khan on screen and the gorgeous voice behind is of Neha Kakkar.
AR Rehman, the master of music, started creating his melodious magical world from 90’s and is still going on with the best of the bests. In 2016, Rehman brought back his own creation again with more energy. It is the Humma Song that has already set all dance floors on fire. This song was first composed for the movie ‘Bombay’ and now it is back with a bang in Ok Jaanu. The song was originally sung by Remo Fernadez & Swarnlatha and Sonali Bendre was featured in it. The lucky singers who got a chance to sing AR Rehman’s creation again are Jubin Nautilya, Shashaa Tirupati and Badshah for rap.
Two more 2017 movies launched power pack songs in 2016 as item numbers, which are Kaabil and Raees. Amitabh Bachan’s hit song from 80’s movie Yaarana, ‘Saara Zamana’ has got its way back through Hrithik Roshan’s movie Kaabil. The song is recreated in the female voice of Payal Dev and a rap in Raftaar’s voice. This song features Urvashi Rautela but on the other side, Sunny Leone is showing her moves in the remake of evergreen song ‘Laila main Laila’ in the film Raees. The original song featured Zeenat Aman and Feroz Khan in a Karaoke style.