/> It looks like Himesh has decided to forge his individual identity completely separate from all the other singers, actors and singing actors who have come and gone.

A decision has been taken to do away with the entire music score of Subhash Ghai's Karz and substitute it with a swanky new score in Himesh's Karzzz.

Apparently the decision to do away with the L-P factor in Himesh's aspirations as an actor comes from the veteran composer Pyarelal's unhappiness over the way his contribution to the music of Om Shanti Om was treated.

Says a hurt and angry Pyarelal, "Though I was initially reluctant Vishal-Shekhar and Farah Khan were insistent. So I relented. Finally after all my hard work there was no mention of my contribution in any of the film's promotion and publicity.

Not even in any of the credits for the songs in the album's CDs when in fact I had been asked to compose three songs including the theme music for Om Shanti Om."

This experience has definitely soured Pyarelal towards the film industry. "It's an industry I don't undersand any more," says Pyarelal sadly.

The decision to keep the chartbusting songs from Subhash Ghai's Karz completely out of Himesh's version of the story decidedly has its echoes in the way one-half of the legendary Laxmikant-Pyarelal has been treated during his comeback.

Though Himesh maintains his tightlipped diplomatic stance the neo-Karzzzz director Satish Kaushik is more forthcoming. "We did plan to include some some songs from Subhash Ghai's Karz by Laxmikant-Pyarelalji.

But then things started changing once we started shooting. The original Karz doesn't have a title song. But Himesh has sung and composed a fabulous title song Ishq mere tere karz.

Himesh loves Rafi Saab's Dard-e-dil and had the situation for our film. But then Himesh created an entirely new track in place of Dard-e-dil."

Could the fact that the Karz song Dard-e-dil has already been parodied as Dard-e-disco in Om Shanti Om have something to do with the decision to do away with the original song situation in the new millennium Karz?