on lata mangeshkars 92nd birthday september 28 her fans will receive a gift from vishal bhardwaj and gulzar a song this unreleased number called theek nahi lagta was sung by lata mangeshkar in the 1990s penned by gulzar and composed by vishal the romantic song was supposed to be for a film that vishalgulzar were working on at the same time as maachis 1996 and was to be filmed on aishwarya rai the film eventually got shelved and the song was never released vishal tells us the story of how the song which was recorded when he was just starting off in the industry was lost and foundi searched for the song 1012 years back but couldnt find it then twothree years back a studio called about a tape they foundin the 90s when vishal was new in the industry he started as a composer and was working with veterans like lata mangeshkar and gulzar along with maachis i was doing this other film which was also written by gulzar saab but the film never got made maachis release ho gayi aur main busy ho gaya he tells us adding that it was for this shelved film that the song was recorded when we point out that the song reminds one of maachis music album vishal laughs and says maybe because i was in that zone at that timesharing the story behind the song he says i always used to think that that song was very good uss zamane mein cassette hua karte thay toh kahan release karte baat hoti rahi ki film banegi and before i knew it eight10 years had passed phir woh gaana kahin kho gaya then around 1012 years back i started looking for that song lata ji ne gaana bhi kam kar diya tha so that was another reason to find that song ki unka gaaya hua hai maine bahut dhundha par woh mila nahicontinuing the story after a pause vishal adds then twothree years back i got a call it was from a studio that was about to be closed and they said aap ke naam ka ek tape mila hai agar aap ko lena ho toh le lijiye nahi toh humlog fenk denge there were many songs in that tape and this song was among them i retrieved lata jis voice from that song and usko contemporarise kar liyaabout his plans for the song he says we will be releasing this song on lata jis birthday later i will use it in a film some of the musicians who have worked on this version were not even born when it was originally recordedwhen lata mangeshkar agreed to sing the songthere is so much to learn from lata ji gulzar saab vishalvishal shares that in the 90s composers like him and ar rahman were bringing contemporary music to the table and it had a different feel to it so how was it working with veterans like gulzar and lata mangeshkar back then vishal