Mere Angne Mein song featured Amitabh Bachchan and Zeenat Aman.
Amitabh Bachchan was left embarrassed after his song Mere Angne Mein from the film Laawaris was played in Kaun Banega Crorepati season 15.
Kaun Banega Crorepati hosted by the actor Amitabh Bachchan is considered a family entertainment show. KBC is not just a quiz show but also sees the actor indulging in fun banters with the contestants. In one of the recent episodes, he recalled the interesting story behind the iconic track sung by him- Mere Angne Mein.
The actor of the millennium, Amitabh Bachchan was left embarrassed after his song Mere Angne Mein from the film Laawaris was played in Kaun Banega Crorepati season 15. The 1981 film Laawaris, directed by Prakash Mehra, featured him and the actress Zeenat Aman in the lead. Coming back to the song, it was played in the reality show for the Rs 10,000 audio question. First, the question was asked, “Which of these is true for the song in the audio?” followed by playing the track.
Listening to the song, Big B immediately said, “That’s Enough! Please stop playing the song. God knows what options Mr Computer ji will give. Let me present the options. I am disappointed and embarrassed.” Then, the actor read the options for the contestants. The options were the director is the singer, the actor is the singer, the actor is the director and the composer is the director.
The contestants immediately responded with the right answer- the actor is the singer to which Big B replied, “The actor is the singer, and he has sung badly.” The 80-year-old actor then went on to narrate the story behind the song and said, “This song is from the film Laawaris in which I acted. There’s a story behind this song. You see, this is a folk song and it is played in villages. We’ve been listening to it since we were kids. My father used to play the drum and sing this song on Holi. This film was made by director Prakash Mehra. He made Zanjeer and many others.”
“Prakash Mehra came to me one day and said, ‘Hey, Amit, give me this song’. I asked him what he meant. He said, ‘I want to use it in my film’. I said, ‘’Sure. Why not?’. He said, ‘You will sing it!’. I said, ‘I am a very bad singer. I cannot sing the song.’ He said, ‘No. Sing just as it you would have on Holi.’ I sang that song with great difficulty,” added Amitabh Bachchan.
The audience, then, requested him to sing a few lines from the song. However, he didn’t and said, “No singing.”