Rapper Badshah is nutorious for taking classic old songs and remixing them which the music maestro AR Rahman didn’t like. Rahman has always voiced his dissatisfaction with the remix culture and had publicly called out for remixing several of his songs like Humma Humma and more. The rapper has now said that AR Rahman actually called him up and apologized for his remarks he made about the Humma Humma remix.
Badshah told Radio Nasha, “When I did ‘Humma Humma’, I faced a lot of flak. Rahman sir was also very unhappy but then at an event, I remember, he called me and then he said ‘I am sorry. It took me time to realise it’s a good song. I was just unhappy because of…’ there were some things and that was probably the biggest validation that I wasn’t looking for but I got.”
AR Rahman had previously told Hindustan Times, “I wasn’t happy with the idea, initially. I was really hesitant about it at the start… But Shaad (the film’s director) was insistent. He kept on asking if we could use the song. So I asked Tanishk to come up with the first four bars of the song, and I kind of liked the beat. It sounded good and a bit different.”
