“One fine night, Shah Rukh Khan held us all captive for creating the Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani title track,” reveal iconic musical duo Jatin-Lalit

With the lockdown gradually lifting and people across the country stepping out into the new normal, Zee TV resumed shoots of its shows and reconnected its audiences with the journeys of their beloved characters. The channel’s first-of-its-kind music countdown show - ‘Pro Music Countdown,’ which is hosted by Siddharth Kannan, has also made a mega comeback. The non-fiction show presents superhit songs in a never-seen-before chat show format with the hottest Bollywood celebrities getting up close and personal about their career, romance and everything that’s brewing in B-town!

In the upcoming episode of the show, featuring musical maestros Jatin-Lalit, viewers will get to know some hot and happening secrets of Bollywood. In fact, while sharing their experience about working on Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani, the musical duo made a surprising revelation about Shah Rukh Khan. During the show, they told Siddharth how they hit a creative block during the composition of the title track for the movie. Jatin - Lalit even mentioned how they were jamming to find the right tune when they came across the enthusiastic side of Shah Rukh Khan. They revealed how King Khan held the duo captive in their studio till the whole cast and the musical masterminds came up with a tune for the title track of Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani and we have to say it still amazes the audience.

Lalit Pandit shared, “We faced quite a block while working on Phir Bhi Dil Hai Hindustani and it indeed was quite a task to come up with a tune that was meant to make the audiences swoon and groove to it. The reason I loved working with Shah Rukh Khan is that he’s extremely dedicated to his work and he’ll make sure that creativity flows from other members of the team. I remember while working on the movie, one fine night he held us all captive at the studio and called our homes informing them of our late return. He was quite enthusiastic and stubborn about creating a title track for the movie that night itself.” Adding to this, Jatin Pandit shared, “It was indeed a fun jamming session. While initially we were taken aback and even Javed ji told him that one cannot make a song like that and it requires time, but Shah Rukh and Juhi were not convinced. Finally that night we did end up cracking the catchy ‘mukhda’ of the song, which is literally the most important part of a song. Later on the process of creating the iconic song followed smoothly and when I look back at that day, I feel glad that we jammed that night and created the song.”

To watch Jatin-Lalit make some unheard revelations, tune in to Pro Music Countdown on August 30th at 11 PM, only on Zee TV!