Hrithik and Honey Singh to feature in a tribute song to Gulshan Kumar

A beautiful gesture by Hrithik Roshan and Yo Yo Honey Singh for the late Gulshan Kumar will warm your hearts today. The two super celebrities will be coming together for a song that pays tribute to the music industry icon. Reportedly, Honey Singh is a huge fan and admirer of Gulshan Kumar and will compose a new track on one of his favourite tracks, that is, Dheere Dheere Se from Aashiqui. And none other than Hrithik will be featuring in it. The best part is that neither of the stars have charged anything for the project.

Bhushan Kumar was overwhelmed by the project and said, “I was just 12 then in 1990, when I was mad about the music of Salman Khan’s Maine Pyar Kiya. In those days, the trend was to release film music months in advance and so, Aashiqui music too was released four months before the release of the film. Since my father Gulshan Kumar had produced the film, we had access to the music much before it was in the market. I remember whenever I went with papa in his car; I would take my favourite cassette and play it. So I started playing Maine Pyar Kiya that was not our music, but of a competitor. Papa gave me the Aashiqui cassette and told me, `Listen to this. This is from our film.’ I started hearing it and till today, that album remains on my playlist. I remember him telling me that his most favourite song ever was `Dheere Dheere Se’. Papa died in 1997. When Yo Yo Honey Singh met me for the first time, he told me how he respected my father so much and he had dreamt of one day working with him. He had read somewhere that`Dheere Dheere Se’ was my father’s favourite song and said that he wanted to recreate it for him and that too for free, even though he otherwise charges a huge amount. He started the work but then fell ill last year. During his illness, I met him three times at his house. I met him first time, then second time during my sister’s wedding, but it was on my third visit only, when Honey was feeling much better and had started composing again, that I asked him if he felt comfortable to finish the song, as I wanted to pay a tribute to my father as Aashiqui completes 25 years. And Honey completed the song. I then went to Hrithik Roshan, who was my first choice to dance on the single. I made him listen to the song without telling him the purpose for which I was making it. He loved it, but didn’t see the reason why he should dance to an old recreated song, given that Hrithik has never ever been part of a single song video. I then told Hrithik my reasons for making it and within a second he said,`I am doing it for Gulshanji. That will be my only reason to dance to it.'”

The song will be shot in Turkey and Bhushan Kumar has said that all the proceeds of the song will go for charity.