Uttam Singh composed the music for Sunny Deol and Anil Sharma Gadar (2001), and the music album was a superhit. "Main Nikla Gaddi Leke" and "Udd Ja Kale Kawa" have been chartbusters and continue to get the same love even today. That's the reason why director Anil Shamra kept the revised versions of those two songs on Gadar 2 (2023).
Anil Sharma brought music director Mithoon to compose the numbers this time. Apparently, he forgot to have a word with Uttam Singh and didn't even inform him before remixing his old superhit numbers. Singh is extremely disheartened by Anil Sharma's gesture. He spoke to Amar Ujala to express his unhappiness.
Uttam Singh shared, "They didn’t call me for Gadar 2, and I don’t have the habit of calling and asking for work. They have used two of my songs in the film, and I have also heard that they have used the background music that I composed. They should at least have the etiquette to ask me once and talk to me before using my songs in the film."