Amitabh Bachchan on Bappi Lahiri: “His songs for my films shall remain eternal”

 Megastar Amitabh Bachchan on Thursday mourned the demise of Bappi Lahiri and said the songs the singer-composer gave for his movies are remembered with joy even after decades. The 69-year-old musician, who died at a city hospital on Tuesday night, had composed many chartbusters for Bachchan for movies like ‘Namak Halaal’ (1982) and ‘Sharaabi’ (1984).

The 79-year-old megastar remembered the composer on his blog, saying that he was “shocked and surprised” by Lahiri’s death.
“Bappi Lahiri .. music director extraordinaire passes away .. shocked and surprised and in the misery of these tragic events of ‘passing’ in the rapid succession of times ..
“His songs of films with me are and shall I believe remain eternal .. they are played hummed sung along in these modern generation times with alacrity and rejoice,” he wrote.

He added, ”Your this film is going to be very successful and the song I just gave, shall be remembered for ages’. He was right… and learning the graphs of some, at his modest home, in rehearsal, an even greater experience. Slowly they all leave us.”