Amit Trivedi: Pressure To Rehash Old Songs Comes From Producers; Singers Don't Want To Sing Remix
Ace music composer Amit Trivedi says no Bollywoodmusic director or singer he knows likes recreating old songs, but have to compromise owing to the pressure from film producers and big labels.
Amit
Trivedi
says,
Pressure
to
REMIX
old
songs
comes
only
from
Producers:
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Ace
music
composer
Amit
Trivedi
says
no
Bollywoodmusic
director
or
singer
he
knows
likes
recreating
old
songs,
but
have
to
compromise
owing
to
the
pressure
from
film
producers
and
big
labels.
The
trend
of
rehashing
old
film
numbers
has
caught
up
fast
with
Bollywood
music
directors.
Amit,
known
for
giving
music
for
"Dev
D",
"Bombay
Velvet",
"Queen"
and
"Lootera",
calls
the
growing
trend
a
step
down
as
he
does
not
feel
it
is
plausible
to
touch
a
song,
which
was
once
"someone
else's
vision".
"For
creators,
especially
for
me
as
a
composer,
I
am
sure
for
singers
also,
it
is
sad.
It
is
not
exciting
that
we
have
to
create
something
that
someone
else
has
already
done
before.
It
is
someone
else's
baby,
which
we
would
not
like
to
touch,
because
at
that
time
it
was
that
person's
vision.
It
is
difficult
to
do
in
a
film
format,"
Amit
told
reporters.
"The
pressure
is
only
from
the
producers
and
the
labels.
No
composer,
no
singer
would
ever
want
to
sing
a
remix.
I
don't
know
about
others,
but
there
are
definitely
a
lot
of
people,
I
know,
who
don't
want
to
do
someone
else's
songs
in
films."
"It's
the
producers
and
the
labels' pressure
that
we
are
catering
to.
Because
we
are
a
part
of
that
(the
system),
we
have
to
do
that
job.
You
should
all
ask
this
question
to
them
as
to
why
are
they
doing
it,"
he
added.
Amit
was
speaking
at
the
launch
of
Amazon
Prime
Video's
new
original,
"The
Remix".
The
reality
show,
which
has
Amit
as
one
of
the
judges,
will
see
aspiring
singers
and
music
producers
collaborate
to
recreate
old
film
songs.
Amit
said
that
for
a
show
like
"The
Remix",
the
concept
of
recreation
works
well
as
the
musicians
put
in
an
effort
to
add
their
flavour
to
the
original
composition
and
completely
turn
it
around.
"Here,
we
have
a
proper
format.
The
show
is
about
remixes.
So,
it
works
beautifully
and
fantastically
well
here.
But
for
films,
if
you
ask
me,
it
is
sad," he
added.
Besides
Amit,
playback
singer
Sunidhi
Chauhan
and
DJ
Nucleya
are
the
other
two
names
on
the
jury
panel.
Sunidhi
echoed
the
music
composer's
sentiments
and
said
that
a
song
that
has
been
recreated
tastefully
would
always
sound
good.
"Any
song,
which
has
been
done
tastefully,
will
sound
nice.
Even
I
like
a
couple
of
songs,
but
I
don't
like
most
of
them
because
they
are
just
the
repetition
of
what
has
already
been
done.
But
on
this
show,
we
are
not
just
remixing
the
song."
"Remixing
has
become
a
loosely-used
term.
We
are
going
beyond
that.
Contestants
on
this
show
have
actually
made
the
original
compositions
sound
new,
by
adding
new
elements
like
different
sounds,
new
composition,
rap,
etc
to
them..."
she
said.
Television
actor
Karan
Tacker
will
host
the
series
that
begins
streaming
from
March
9
on
Amazon
Prime
Video.