The song from upcoming film Notebook, to which Pakistani singer Atif Aslam had provided vocals, has been re-recorded in the voice of the composer of the track Vishal Mishra. Director Nitin Kakkar had confirmed at an event in Mumbai on Thursday that the Atif Aslam song in Notebook will be redone by a “new voice”.
PeepingMoon has learnt that Vishal Mishra is the “new voice” Nitin was talking about – Vishal has composed the song in question as well. Vishal is a Mumbai-based musician and has composed and provided vocals to songs in the films Munna Michael, Friendship Unlimited, Tutak Tutak Tutiya and Qarib Qarib Single.
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Vishal Mishra and Salman Khan[/caption]
Atif’s song was dropped from the Notebook album after Pakistani artistes were banned from working in India following the terror attack in Pulwama on February 14. Nitin, at the event, had confirmed reports of the aforementioned fact.
“We have got a new voice. There’s only one song of Atif in the film and we will have to re-do it. We all are Indians and it is unfortunate whatever has happened. But the show must go on as they say,” Nitin had said at the event as per the report in the website.
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File photo of Atif Aslam[/caption]
Notebook, in fact, will not even release in Pakistan, as announced by co-producer Murad Khetani. The film, produced by Salman Khan under his banner, will mark the debut of Pranutan Bahl and Zaheer Iqbal. Notebook will release on March 29.
After the brutal terror attack in Pulwama, several film bodies, including the the All Indian Cine Workers Association issued a statement announcing a “total ban” on Pakistani actors and artistes working in the Hindi film industry. Action will be taken against organisations that insist upon working with Pakistani actors and artistes despite the ban.
The terror attack in Pulwama was the worst ever in Jammu and Kashmir since militancy erupted in 1989, as a Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) suicide bomber rammed his vehicle packed with explosives into a CRPF bus on the Jammu-Srinagar highway in Pulwama district. The attack, much like the one in Uri in 2016, has impacted cultural ties between the two nations.
