‘Corporates are scared to experiment’: Adnan Sami exposes forced reality of Bollywood remixes

Renowned Bollywood music composer and singer Adnan Sami has criticized the industry's tendency to create remixes from popular past songs, arguing that music companies are avoiding risk and failing to serve their audience's demands. Sami told the Game Changers podcast that "corporates are scared to experiment" and the ratio of original songs to remixes has shifted from 80:20 to 20:80.

He pointed out the trend in Hollywood, citing the Batman franchise, which expanded beyond sequels and prequels to include spin-offs like Joker and its sequel Joker: Folie à Deux. Sami also noted that Christopher Nolan's recent film The Odyssey, an adaptation of the ancient Greek poem, is not the first film version of Homer's work, having been previously adapted by Mario Camareno in 1954 and George Lucas in 1999.

The composer argued that remixes are not a result of audience demand, as music labels should bear the responsibility for producing them. He lamented that this generation of listeners will not have any Hindi songs to call their own, as they are only exposed to remixed classics from the past decades. Sami praised Zee Music for supporting his efforts to create original music and criticized the industry's general reluctance to take risks, stating that this atmosphere of fear is unfortunate.