As Dhurandhar revives Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s magic, here’s how his ICONIC creation featured in Sunny Deol and Shah Rukh Khan-starrs just 9 months apart : Bollywood News

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is back in sharp focus for Hindi film audiences, thanks to Dhurandhar The Revenge. The recently released film has revived not one but two compositions associated with the legendary singer – ‘How do you survive?’ and ‘Man does not care about the nail’making Nusrat Saab’s timeless sound a talking point all over again. It has once again reminded audiences of the emotional power and spiritual pull that only Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s music could carry.

As Dhurandhar revives Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s magic, here’s how his ICONIC creation featured in Sunny Deol and Shah Rukh Khan-starrs just 9 months apart

Interestingly, this renewed fascination also takes one back to an important chapter in Bollywood’s long relationship with Nusrat Saab’s music. On April 18, 2026, coal completes 29 years, having originally been released on April 18, 1997. The Shah Rukh Khan and Madhuri Dixit starrer featured the unforgettable ‘Saanson’s Garland’a film adaptation that brought Nusrat Saab’s immortal composition into a dramatic mainstream Bollywood setting. Even today, the song remains one of the most haunting and distinctive musical moments in the film’s album.

What makes this even more fascinating is that coal wasn’t the first major Hindi film to tap into the magic of ‘Saanson’s Garland’. 9 months earlier, the same composition had also been used in Jeet (1996), the Sunny Deol-Karisma Kapoor-Salman Khan starrer. In other words, before Shah Rukh Khan’s coal turned it into a widely remembered cinematic moment for an entire generation, the song had already made its way into a major Bollywood film vehicle led by Sunny Deol.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan already had a fan base in India and it became bigger with the song. ‘Afreen Afreen’ from the album Confluence in 1996. He composed songs for two films – And love is gone (1997) and raw clothes (1999), while also singing the cult track ‘The bride’s wedding’ from heartbeat (2000).

As was the trend at that time, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was never credited for the recreations in Jeet or coal. interestingly, ‘Saanson’s Garland’ was recreated for the third time, in Yaariyan 2 (2023). This time, the legendary musician was duly credited.

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