Phir Mile sur???

Of all the songs in the world, the TOI group just had to, had to chose the iconic “Mile Sur Mera Tumhara" to mutilate. No I wouldn’t use their version of ‘Phir Mile sur’ (1) (2) coz I don’t see any sur meeting. Shankar Mahadevan said in the making of the video that all of them are using the same raang, but I see Aamir doing something that looks like a cross between an Aati kya khandala tune and a 3 idiot look, and SRK, Gosh! I don’t even want to talk about his act. I wish he would stop raising his arms for everything. He does it when he’s sad, happy, romantic, patriotic. Wtf! (u must have realized by now that I’m not a SRK Fan!)

I have my own doubts on this new version of the song. Is this a song that supposed to be epitomizing national integrity? I just see it jam packed with bollywood celebritites. If the TOI group feels that Bollywood represents India completely, they must be mistaken. I don’t see the others in the video at all.

No cricketers. Sachin easily represents 2 decades of Indian cricket. And isn’t dada supposed to be the most successful captain of the Indian Cricket team? And where’s Kumble? Wasn’t he the captain of the test team that beat Australia after 22 years?

No Great Personalities? Na da! I don’t see them being even remotely mentioned anywhere. No Man Booker Prize winner Arvind Adiga, No APJ anywhere and mentioning Nobel Prize scientist S Chandrashekar in the video would not have even come in their minds!

When cricketers are not featured, I doubt whether they would have thought of other sportsmen! Vishwanatah anand, Leander Paes, Mahesh Bhupati, Rajyavardhan Rathore………..rings a bell, Mr. Surendranath???

And don’t get me started on the wardrobes!!! Deepika’s leg show = Unity? National Integrity? Patriotism? I thought the men would enjoy that bit, but I’ve been receiving mixed reactions about it! Taking into account the nature of the video, the least the people featured in it could have done was to dress appropriately. The old video was really special! The new one is just an attempt, and a really pathetic one I must say.

However the one worth mentioning aspect of the video was the message on women's education, women empowerment and Salman's effort with deaf and dumb. I must say that of the 3 Khans, its Salman’s, that’s worth mentioning.

If the TOI group wanted to capture modern India in their song, they should have featured personalities like NRN, Premji against the back drop of Electronic City. At Least it would have shown progress in the right sense. I don’t see how the new song depicts modern India when it has an overdose of bollywood celebs.

I feel the old one was picturised on such a high note that anything these people would attempt at would fall short of it.

I, honestly wish that they would stop making such pitiable attempts at recreating such wonderful songs.

This is what one user had commented and I absolutely agree with him: A song with its wings fluttering to the higher spirits is chopped down by the "commercial bollywood mafia" and some unaesthetic new generation thoughts". The soldiers gone behind the screens , sportsmen all bowled out, and yes you have " aati kya khandala " with all its vulgarity. A shame to the Director, producer and yes to all of us.