Fans of legendary singers Neha Kakkar and Falguni Pathak have been watching their online feud over a recreation of the latter’s original Maine Payal Hai Chhankai, as the two come together to share the stage on the singing reality show Indian Idol Season 13.
Falguni Pathak recently expressed her dismay at Neha’s song ‘O Sajna’ is a recreation of her 90s hit track Maine Payal Hai Chhankai. Sony has shared a new Indian Idol promo that shows the two of them in a special Navratri episode.
Falguni will be a part of Garba night during the theatre round on Indian Idol 13 this weekend. A newspaper article-style promo shows Neha in a pink dress standing among the Indian Idol contestants, holding a dandiya stick. She welcomed the legendary Falguni Ma’am’ to the show as she started the theatre rounds with Garba Night. Falguni continued to sing Garba as judges Neha Kakkar, and Himesh Reshammiya to Aditya Narayan host the dandiya game around her.
Some viewers responded to the campaign by calling their war of words a publicity stunt. One wrote, “Song ko famous karvane ke liye kya kya karte hai yeh log….pehle social media par lad ke attention grab karte hai phir ek sath TV par perform karte hai. Kya dikhava hai yaar (what all these people do to make the song a hit, first they fight on social media to grab attention and then they perform together on TV. What a show off).” An Instagram user wrote, “Ye log bas public standards ke liye karte hai (these people do everything for the public).”
Earlier, Falguni Pathak called off Neha’s new song. She told, “I got to know about the remixed version three-four days back. The first reaction was not good. I was like, mujhe bas ulti aani baaki thi, aisa ho gaya tha. (I was about to puke, it was like that).”