Twitterati dislike IPL 2018 anthem; slams Star India

The fever of the upcoming edition of Indian Premier League (IPL) is starting to settle now with the first game only a few days away. The host broadcaster Star India has already been trying to up the ante in his maiden stint of the tournament by scheduling analysis programmes to the build-up of the tournament. Following the trend which previous broadcaster Sony started, they also created the anthem for the T20 extravaganza and released it on Monday evening. However, Twitterati is not at all amused with the new song and has slammed Star over the same.

The new anthem has been released in five languages – Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Telugu. It was also put on all the platforms – TV, radio, and digital. The artists who worked on the anthem this year South African film maker, Dan Mace, music director, Raajeev V Bhalla and vocalist Siddharth Basrur. They’ve named the IPL as the Best v Best which clearly suggests that it is the top T20 League in the World. Over the years the tournament has only grown in stature and will be doing the same this season as well.

Twitter misses Sony

The artists who worked so hard to prepare the anthem have used an old song from the Bollywood movie ‘Naya Daur’. The lyrics of that song were ‘Ye desh hai veer jawano ka’ and the new lyrics read as ‘Ye khel hai sher jawano ka’ which is a decent one. The video of the anthem also sees all the clips of the IPL ever since its inception and includes the famous Helicopter shot from MS Dhoni.

However, Twitterati is not impressed with the anthem and have slammed Star India for mocking the famous old Bollywood song. They expressed their disappointment clearly and missed the old broadcaster Sony and in their opinion, Sony was creating the best anthems for the cricketing festival in India.

Here are some of the tweets:

Fims tak thik tha
But ye ab kuchh jyda ho raha hain ye copy paste system har field me aa gaya hain
Is baar ipl bhi unique nhi huaa starting hi copy paste se kar di
Ye kisne likha hain aise gaane to hum bhi likh sakte hain kisi bhi old film ka leke
Disspointed kar diya star walo

— Sheriff Woody (@imwolverine555) March 13, 2018

Aisi bhi kya majboori thi @IPL aisa anthem kon bna tha bhai. Last 10 years ke anthem ek se bad kr ek the..@SonyPictures @SonyMAX missing u … @StarSportsIndia kuch to lihaaz kro ipl ka..?

— Saurabh Manjhi (@saurabhmanjhi_) March 12, 2018

Worst anthem in ipl history plz cosider that south indians also indian,how can we understand hindi release in english also

— Naveenkrishnan (@navinkrish75) March 12, 2018

Nice Music but not a good video …. am from Pakistan and anthem is too good …..

— Afreen Khan (@afreenkhan_real) March 12, 2018

Take time and come with best … Don't make it worst … ????

— Gopichand Bommineni (@GopiBommineni) March 12, 2018

Bhai ye is baar ka anthem faaltu kaa niklaa
Creativity door door tak nhi dikh rahi
Or kis bachhe se naak me gawa rahe ho
Ipl deserves heavy voice like daler mehandi, arijit singh maja nhi aaya
Kuch naya banao abhi bhi time hain iss copied gane se public or irritate hogi change it

— Sheriff Woody (@imwolverine555) March 13, 2018

Worst song ever in ipl history. We are disappointed.

— VK (@vkcreation) March 13, 2018

Kya fuddu sa anthem bana diye ek kaam dhang se nahi hota bkl tum sab se.

— SAGAR (@shyggar) March 12, 2018

You guys have come up with much better anthems in the past like India Ka Tyohaar and Yeh Dus Saal Aapke Naam etc. this is average at best.

— Nikhil Ram (@Nikhil_Rams) March 12, 2018

Bekar song hy aj tk itna bekar song ni suna m ny

— Ali Khan (@AliKhan01094376) March 12, 2018

Very cheap song.. not able to match previous ipl songs.. disappointed ??

— Syria Ka Basha (@syria_basha) March 12, 2018

Wrost IPL anthem till that , we are expecting something more then this…?!
@SonyMAX is far better then @StarSportsIndia !!#wrostanthem

— Shubhanshu Singh (@Shubhanshuchamp) March 12, 2018

After watching this, I wonder what Steve Wozniak said was correct? @IPL

— Yash Mhatre (@yashmhatree) March 12, 2018

Plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz change the theme!! I can sure that no one would have liked this theme!! Iss theme ke badh I can predict it will decrease the trp of ipl

— Pawan Agarwal (@PawanAg52658381) March 12, 2018