Overview

• An AI-generated rendition of the song Saiyaara that mimicked Kishore Kumar’s voice went viral online.
• Shaan called the practice of cloning late singers' voices "cruel" and "wrong," saying it distorts their legacies.
• He argued that artists like Kishore Kumar and Mohammed Rafi were dynamic across eras, which algorithms cannot authentically reflect.
• The singer urged audiences to skip AI recreations and return to Kishore Kumar’s original recordings.
• Republic World reported that the original Saiyaara, sung by Faheem Abdullah with music by Tanishk Bagchi, Faheem Abdullah and Arslan Nizami and lyrics by Irshad Kamil, became the first Bollywood track to enter Spotify’s Global Top 50.