A new song from Ali Abbas Zafar’s upcoming film Bharat has hit the charts. The song, Ban Ja Meri Mithi Mithi Chashni, has been sung by Abhijeet Srivastava, and is picturised on Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif who are seen romancing each other in sun kissed backgrounds. The Chashni song is a retro and old school mix.
Katrina in a pink saree playing with jalebis and Khan with Diwali lights, the metaphor of the song is literally personified in their romantic exchange. The romantic-songs-old-school-Bollywood-genre returns with this song that has been shot in desert locations like all old Shah Rukh Khan-Kajol romance numbers, or even Katrina and Akshay Kumar songs.
However, Chashni has gone on to experiment with the lead pair walking on water, and a classic opening with Khan’s dialogue that says while the cinema got its first superstar, i.e. Rajesh Khanna, Khan was old-school for he loved Dilip Kumar and in Katrina he found his Saira Bano.
Kaif looks completely different in the film. From her Sabyasachi lehenga to saris in the song, to her work attire at an oil rig in a Gulf country, her look has been experimented with a lot. On the other hand, Salman sports a white kurta and later a black kurta-set complementing Kaif’s look.
The song also has contributions from the hit-duo, Vishal and Shkaher, and is the definite sequence to become the biggest romance number of this year.
Listen to the complete song here.