‘Mile Sur Mera Tumhara’ had created stirs 22 years back as it exuded the essence of unity and nationality of India. This year, as India completes 60 years of its Republic, the song has been re-created as ‘Phir Mile Sur’ featuring more than 60 known personalities, including actors Aamir Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor, Salman Khan, Shilpa Shetty and Juhi Chawla. In all, the song features 22 superstars, 18 musicians, 13 artistes and singers and 15 other known personalities. The song has been composed by jazz artists Louis and Geno Banks.
The earlier version of the song featured vocalists Bhimsen Joshi and Balamurali Krishna, sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, tabla maestros Allah Rakha and Zakir Hussain, sportsmen Narendra Hirwani and Prakash Padukone and film personalities like Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Lata Mangeshkar, Mithun Chakraborty, Jeetendra, Hema Malini, Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Kamal Haasan, Sharmila Tagore, Tanuja and Waheeda Rehman.
Amitabh Bachchan, who released this album, expresses his gratitude and says, “I was part of the old Mile Sur… and now yet again I am fortunate to be part of this one. We have integrated many tunes together and that’s precisely the message of this video.” Featuring in the video is well known musician Sivamani, who says, “I wanted to do something unique for this so I started playing drums on water. This has never been done by any artist.
She made her debut with none other than the superstar of the millennium Amitabh Bachchan in ‘Nishabd’. Quite promising though she seemed, Jiah Khan quietly went quiet for sometime but she is yet again in the news, this time, for being on the cover of the popular UK glossy magazine ‘Xeher’, who had carried out an exclusive shoot in Mumbai for their current Winter-Spring edition with the Jiah. Meanwhile the girl is all geared up for her forthcoming film ‘Ghajini’, opposite Aamir Khan.
Jiah stated that this was one of the most beautiful shoots she had ever done. The idea of the shoot was to show that Jiah is not at all a rebel, as she is made out to be!
With Himesh Reshammiya playing Rishi Kapoor in the ‘Karz’ remake, here is a new addition to the list of star cast. Sushmita Sen has been signed to play the greyer shades in the film, that is the role of Simi Garewal.
For those who came in late, T-Series have acquired the remake rights of Subhash Ghai’s classic. The film will be directed by Satish Kaushik. The search is on for the lucky gal who will play Tina Munim’s role.
