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Real question isn’t why songs like Sarke Chunar are made. It’s why we keep playing them

The song was taken off YouTube a day after its release. But where was this energy when songs like Choli Ke Peeche & Fevicol Se came out? Those songs walked so this one could run.

Another day, another “banger”. Bollywood’s idea of commercial music has flatlined. A new song called Sarke Chunar Teri Sarke, featuring Nora Fatehi and Sanjay Dutt from KD: The Devil, isn’t just tone-deaf, it’s aggressively so. If Badshah’s Tateeree made you raise an eyebrow, consider this the full-blown eye-roll moment. My ears are bleeding, and my expectations of the industry have packed their bags and left. This new “item song” is giving tough competition to the sexually explicit churn that the Bhojpuri music industry has produced for years.

The problem with Sarke Chunar Teri Sarke isn’t the bold dance moves. It’s the lyrics. They don’t even attempt subtlety. Written by Raqueeb Alam, a section of the song reads, supposedly about a beer bottle: “Pahle Uthale, Ander Wo Dale, Neeche Ek Boond Na Girae. (First, he should pick it up, then put it in........

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