Singer Chinmayi Sripada says she is happy to see her name in the tracklist credits of 'Ms. Marvel', the Disney+ Hotstar series that featured her song 'Tere Bina'.
A remix version of 'Tere Bina', a song from the 2007 Mani Ratnam film 'Guru', was used by the makers of the Iman Vellani-fronted show in its third episode which premiered on the streamer on Wednesday.
Other Hindi movie songs that are featured in episode three of Ms. Marvel are: 'Joote De Do Paise Le Lo' from 'Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!,' 'Hadippa' from 'Dil Bole Hadipaa', and 'Yeh Mera Dil...' from 'Don'.
Also part of the 12-part soundtrack is singer-songwriter Ritviz’s 'Thandi Hawa' and 'For Aisha', a collaboration of international musical group MEMBA featuring American musician EVAN GIIA and Sufi singing duo Nooran Sisters.
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This is not the first time the makers have floated Bollywood references into the show. The previous two episodes mentioned Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan and his films 'Baazigar' and 'Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge' alongside Pakistani singer-songwriter Hasan Raheem’s song 'Peechay Hutt'.
'Ms. Marvel' introduces Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani), a Muslim American teenager growing up in Jersey City. The official synopsis of the Marvel show reads, “An avid gamer and a voracious fan-fiction scribe, Kamala is a Super Hero mega-fan with an oversized imagination—particularly when it comes to Captain Marvel. Yet Kamala feels invisible both at home and at school—that is, until she gets super powers like the heroes she’s always looked up to. Life gets better with superpowers, right?”
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Apart from Iman Vellani, actor-filmmaker Farhan Akhtar, actor Mohan Kapur and Pakistani stars Fawad Khan and Nimra Bucha also star in the six-part series. Aramis Knight, Saagar Shaikh, Rish Shah, Zenobia Shroff, Matt Lintz, Yasmeen Fletcher, Laith Nakli, Azhar Usman, and Travina Springer also round out the cast of 'Ms. Marvel.'
Directed by Adil El Arbi-Bilall Fallah, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, and Meera Menon, 'Ms. Marvel' started streaming in India on Disney+ Hotstar from June 8.
[With Inputs from PTI]
