Bollywood relied on remixes, but listeners rejected them

In a year where the Hindi film industry brought many impactful original stories on screen, a lack of novelty in its music was majorly felt as remixes of the hit ‘80s and ‘90s tracks dominated the Bollywood albums.

The tone for remixes, which are nowadays called ‘recreated versions’, was set right from the first month of the year with the release of superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s Raees, actor Hrithik Roshan’s Kaabil and Shraddha Kapoor- starrer Ok Jaanu.

While the album of Raees featured the remix of popular Bollywood number Laila Main Laila (originally from the 1980 Zeenat Aman-starrer Qurbani), by composer Ram Sampath, Kaabil soundtrack had Sara Zamana remixed. The original song belongs to the album of megastar Amitabh Bachchan’s 1981 film Yaarana.