Idea Of India Summit 2024: Ila Arun participated in ABP’s Idea of India Summit 2024. During this, he talked about family values and shared his career experience. The actress and folk singer also clarified about the controversial song ‘Choli Ke Peeche’ from the 1993 film ‘Khalnayak’ and said that she had no hand in its creation. When she was asked whether she was nervous while singing ‘Choli Ke Peeche’ in folk music, Ila said that she was absolutely comfortable with it.
Ila said, ‘Whatever I was doing, I was doing my own,’ Tips called me for folk music. ‘Choli Ke Peechee’ is someone else’s creation and I saw that there is a new voice and the cinema people are always looking for a new voice. Is. The song Morni from the film Lamhein had come, it was a composition by Shri Ji and Hari Ji and they knew the culture of Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir, so they gave me a new platform through theatre.
‘It didn’t matter to me because…’
Ila told that she was completely normal about singing it. She said- ‘I was not uncomfortable because I have lived the folk life, there are songs that I have heard which are used in family weddings, there are songs of molestation. Even when I was writing this song, Anand Bakshi was seeing the expression that I am a little hesitant, but it did not matter to me because I am an actress and secondly, we have such songs where there is banter between brother-in-law and sister-in-law. There is a joke between sister-in-law and sister-in-law.
Called folk ‘evergreen’
Ila further said- ‘Whatever songs I sang are not my contribution. Earlier also there were folk, there was a gap in between that Bollywood got influence from outside. But folk never dies. Whatever is happening now, he is walking on crutches but the people do not need anyone.
What was the controversy of the song ‘Choli Ke Peeche’?
Let us tell you that there was a lot of controversy regarding the song ‘Choli Ke Peeche’. There was a lot of protest against the song, calling it ‘obscene’ and it was reportedly even banned by Doordarshan. But despite all the controversies, this song became a hit because of Madhuri Dixit.
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