You people remember when Bollywood used to make some amazing original music? Yeah, good times. For the past few years though, the industry seems to have taken the recycling route. Not out of concern for the environment though. More like just cashing in on the success of classics. Pretty lazy if you ask them.
And it’s ever the more unfortunate that this would happen in a culturally rich country like ours where we have no dearth of talented writers and lyricists. But no, let’s just leave them playing the role of the struggling artist and revamp old fan favourites with some bass.
The Shahid Kapoor and Shraddha Kapoor starrer ‘Batti Gul Meter Chalu‘ did the same revamping the Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Sufi track “Sochta Hoon Ke”.
The song titled “Dekhte dekhte” has been sung by Atif Aslam and is quite pleasant to listen to, to be honest. Yes, I’m a hypocrite who feeds every rubbish Bollywood feeds me while grumbling about it.
The internet, however, has found an amusing use of the song. Particularly the lyrics “Sochta hu ke vo kitne masoom the kya se kya ho gaye dekhte dekhte.”
The Twitter meme lords lost no time in making hilarious comparisons using the said lyrics:
1. Anushka’s ‘Sui Dhaga’ meme run continues.
https://twitter.com/Call_me_Anki/status/1036885672236216320
2. Go PC!
Sochta Hu Ki Kya Se Kya
Voh Kitne Kya Hogye
Masum The Dekhte Dekte pic.twitter.com/4NVgX9FbnQ— Tanmay Sinha❤ (@srcastic_writer) September 2, 2018
3. Is it wrong that my mouth is watering?
Sochta hu ki kya se kya
wo Kitne ho gye
Masoom the dekhte dekhte pic.twitter.com/S93UwzcvVR— 🅰️🇲🅰️🇳 (@AMAnZING1109) September 3, 2018
4. Talk about a major glow up.
Sochta hu ki Kya se kya
woh kitne ho gaye
drug addict the dekhte dekhte pic.twitter.com/8iICyu9bVD— Harshhhhhhhhh (@_Msdian_07) September 2, 2018
5. Can’t beat Gaitonde’s glow up though.
Sochta hu ki Kya se kya
Wo kitne Ho gye
Masoom the Dekhte Dekhte pic.twitter.com/sgYvOUb2JI— Aman (@Aman_chan03) August 31, 2018
6. Indian cinema has come a long way.
Sochta Hu Ki Kya Se Kya
Voh Kitne Kya Ho gye
Masum The Dekhte Dekte pic.twitter.com/jA2IRfQSig— Mogli (@__mogli) September 4, 2018
7. As Trump would say: “FAKE NEWS!”
Sochta hu ki woh kitne masum thei kya se kya hogaye dekhte dekhte pic.twitter.com/DanvK9LECk
— Bhavin Pande (@BhavinPande31) September 4, 2018
8. She Longbottomed big time.
https://twitter.com/itx_sheeba/status/1036806946697801728
9. Arre Babuji, aap bhi?!
Sochta Hu Ki Kya Se Kya
Voh Kitne Kya Hogye
Masum The Dekhte Dekte pic.twitter.com/A7NLDz5pPv— singh in the north (@anghadhundal) September 2, 2018
10. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
Sochta Hu Ki Kya Se Kya
Voh Kitne Kya Hogye
Masum The Dekhte Dekte pic.twitter.com/AcgvjGblCi— Gurpreet gill (@iGsgill) September 2, 2018
11. To be honest, he’s always been a badass by the looks of it.
Sochta hu ki Kya se kya
woh kitne ho gaye
masoom the dekhte dekhte pic.twitter.com/bTnWAQ142G— Tanmay Sinha❤ (@srcastic_writer) September 1, 2018
12. Mhari choriyan choron se kam hain ke?
— Avi (@Bakait99) September 1, 2018
Kind of poetic that a revamped song would serve as the base for a transformation meme fest, isn’t it?