Stills from Humma Humma, Ae Zindagi Gale Laga Le and Haseeno Ka Deewana (YouTube)
For those who love Bollywood films and their music, this week has been all about old songs packaged in a new way. In three days, the world got three brand new remixes of old classics, starting with Alia Bhatt's version of
Ae Zindagi Gale Laga Le,
Kaabil's
Haseeno Ka Deewana and the just-released
Humma Humma from
OK Jaanu. So are people happy they have three bright new songs to dance to at their New Year parties? The reviews so far are mixed.
Starting with A R Rahman's classic
Humma Humma from Mani Ratnam's Bombay - the new version, also by him, is called
The Humma Song and features a rap by Badshah. And umm... people are not quite happy with what they've heard. The song, released today, has been trending on Twitter but comments hint at it being something of a miss rather than a hit.
You still gotta give credit to Aditya Roy Kapur and Shraddha Kapoor for the sizzling chemistry, though.
The '90s hit may have missed the mark but what about the two '80s classics?
Both
Ae Zindagi and
Haseeno Ka Deewana seem to have fared way better than
The Humma Song, in terms of Twitter's verdict. The original version of Ae Zindagi was composed by Ilaiyaraaja for Kamal Haasan and Sridevi's film
Sadma.
Haseeno Ka Deewana is a reworking of
Saara Zamana from
Yaaraana, which featured Amitabh Bachchan wearing a lit-up jacket.
While people loved Alia in the new
Ae Zindagi (especially her copying Shah Rukh Khan's pose in the video),
Haseeno Ka Deewana has been trending on YouTube and is being touted as the party song of the year. Here's what Twitter has to say about the two songs:
So here's looking at you,
Laila from
Raees. Will Sunny Leone's magic work? And what about these three new tracks? Which is your favourite? Tell us in the comments section below.