‘Jai Ho’ reduced to what…..

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And this one due for a longtime..have been discussing with friends and colleagues for ages:

There were numerous kinds of controversies that surrounded the song from the movie ' Slumdog Millionaire'. First, was it rehman's best composition ever? Then a spokesperson of a certain political party claims that its becoz of governance of his party in the country, the movie and the song won oscars and the same party buys the rights of the song to use it for their campaign in the General Election and the Gujarat CM Narendra Modi taking a dig at the claim. All these developments were quite a fun to follow.

However, the recent Pussycat Doll song on the same tune (using the catch phrase 'jai ho') is quite bad in taste. The vocals and the video are giving quite different vibes than the song in movie had intended to.

The song in the movie was an expression of exhilaration, but the one by pussycat dolls is celebration/call of a different nature ( to which the hindi song also moves to; however, it gives prominence to triumphant human will, which has won a battle against circumstances that were trying to take dignity out of human existence) altogether. I can't call the Pussycat Doll song other than cheap. It is another addition to the list of examples, where people try to cash in on somthing that has already created a sensation. Instead of being creative they are being calculative.