What was the Biggest Chartbuster of the 90's? - Page 4

The song was featured in the opening of the second act of the musical Bombay Dreams, in which the train sequence from Dil Se.. is recreated on stage.

Remixes of the song were used in the opening and closing credits of the 2006 film, Inside Man. The opening credits, set over shots of the robbery crew driving into Manhattan, feature an abridged version of the original with additional trumpet accompaniment, and the closing credits feature a hip-hop-inflected remix featuring Panjabi MC ("Chaiyya Chaiyya Bollywood Joint").

The song was featured in the pilot episode of Smith. A cover of this song was performed in episode 5 of season 5 of CSI: Miami.

The original track and a live version of "Chaiyya Chaiyya" are featured in AR Rahman's compilation album, A.R. Rahman - A World of Music.

The song was used during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Commonwealth Games held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi on 3 October 2010.

"Chaiyya Chaiyya" became famous in Indonesia in 2011, after Norman Kamaru, a policeman from Gorontalo, Indonesia recorded himself lipsync-ing it and uploaded the video toYouTube. The name of the video is "Polisi Gorontalo Menggila" (Crazy Gorontalo Police).^[6]

On 17 May 2015 , Recording artist Kurt Hugo Schneider with Sam Tsui ,Vidya and Shankar Tucker uploaded a Mashup video on YouTube. It got 300,000 views in 3 days. Shah Rukh Khan tweeted it appreciating their work.