‘Bombay Velvet’ brings ‘Jaata Kahaan Hain’ from ‘CID’ back
Anushka Sharma plays a singer in the Anurag Kashyap film
Anurag Kashyap has brought Geeta Dutt’s iconic song Jaata Kahaan Hain Diwane from Dev Anand’s 1956 movie CID back in his upcoming film Bombay Velvet where Anushka Sharma’s character will lip-sync it.
The makers got the rights to the original song from the legendary Waheeda Rehman. Titled Fifi, the song will feature in the film in which Sharma plays a 1960s superstar singer named Rosie Noronha.
It is by singing Jaata Kahaan Hain Diwane that Rosie gets noticed as a singer in a club and becomes the marquee performer at Johnny Balraj’s (played Ranbir Kapoor) Bombay Velvet.
“I have always loved the song and we used the film CID for the opium bar reference as well. Unfortunately, the original song was never seen in the film as censors had cut it out of the film.
“We decided to use the song for our film, one for the time period, second it fits in perfectly with the opium den atmosphere and the bars visited by Naval officers at the time. RK’s character comes there after the fight to drown his pain in the haze of opium,” Kashyap said.
Produced by Phantom Films and presented by Fox Star Studios, Bombay Velvet releases in the UAE on May 14.
