Pakistani singer Shae Gill on ‘hate’ towards new Pasoori: ‘If you don’t like it then…’

Shae Gill said that people should “look at it as a rendition rather than a remake”. She added, “And if it’s something you don’t like at all then I would say don’t listen to it. Instead of sending hate, don’t listen to it because not liking something and talking about it in your home is still fine but if you are publicly humiliating and insulting someone then it’s not very nice, is it?”

Ever since the new version of Pasoori, sung by Arijit Singh and Tulsi Kumar, dropped online, the audience has been expressing their displeasure towards it. Earlier, in a chat with News 18, composer Rochak Kohli said that Arijit Singh and Ali Sethi had expected such reactions for the new version. “Even before we created the remake, everyone including Ali and Arijit expected such reactions because it is like disrupting something that has been done really well. So the initial reactions were only on the idea that Pasoori was being recreated as many hadn’t even heard the song. We launched the song on Monday morning and we received a lot of hatred. As people are listening to it, their reactions are turning positive and are saying that this isn’t as bad as we expected,” he said.