Vetaran lyricist Sameer Anjaan is very upset with the trend of recreations as the original writers and composers are never duly credited in the recreaction. He feels that this act can only be corrected by in the court.
Sameer ,Son of famous lyrict Anjaan who has been in the bollywood for over three decades has penned for films like Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Raja Hindustani, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham
He said that he even talked to veteran screenwriter-lyricist Javed Akhtar, who is the chairman of Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS), regarding the issue.
“What’s happening is not right. We are totally against it and also planning to take this to court to fight this. Because we give rights to them (music labels) for a particular film only but they’re recreating, utilising the songs in different films and projects without giving due credit to the original creators .
The lyricist was very miffed when his chartbuster song Dilbar Dilbar was recreated by Bhushan Kumar-led T-Series for the John Abraham-starrer Batla House (2019). he said that when he saw the credit plate of the song in an banner ,he was in anger .”They credited Shabbir Ahmed, who has written only two lines of the song in the beginning. Rest all is my original work. In future, how will the coming generation come to know who’s the original writer? The credits are done in a way, they’ll think it’s penned by someone else,” he said.
Recently, T-series launched the remix of the popular song Masakali, which featured in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s Delhi 6. The Masakali 2.0, composed by Tanishq Bagchi and sung by singers Tulsi Kumar and Sachet Tandon.
The recreated track was badly bashed by fans and the original creative team behind the song with composer AR Rahman, lyricist Prasoon Joshi and singer Mohit Chauhan expressing their displeasure.Read music-composer-ar-rahman-has-expressed-his-displeasure-with-the-newly-released-track-masakali
Sameer said it’s “absolutely unethical” that the music label doesn’t even buy the rights from the original creators of a particular song before rehashing it.
“They’re (labels) also not giving a single rupee to them. This is absolutely unethical. It’s our moral right and they can’t take it away. If you want to recreate and the original writer is still alive, why don’t you approach them and ask them to write whatever extra you want? Because they know we won’t be ready to give rights for this. The new writers don’t have any morality, they need money to survive, so they take up the work. We have to fight this,” he added.
For the lyricist, another issue with recreations is that they never retain the essence of the original song .
“Even Javed sahab’s song Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga was recreated by somebody and the writing credit was given to someone else. The worst part is, the person who’s writing, they don’t know what are the original writer’s thoughts and emotions . They write anything without connecting with the thought and sentiment and that’s sad,” he concluded.
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