Pressure to rehash old songs comes only from producers: Amit Trivedi

Ace music composer Amit Trivedi says no Bollywood music 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’ …read more