Aadesh accuses Anu, Sameer of plagiarism

Mumbai, April 12 (IANS) This could be another abominable instance of plagiarism if the accusation is correct - Aadesh Shrivastav has accused director Raj Kanwar, composer Anu Malik and lyricist Sameer of ripping off his composition and using it illegally as the title song in "Humko Deewana Kar Gaye".

The film, starring Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif and Bipasha Basu, is releasing Friday.

"I couldn't sleep the whole night when I heard the song. My wife (Vijayta Pandit) requested me to calm down because my blood pressure shot up. But these are such shameless people," a livid Aadesh told IANS.

"Raj Kanwar, Anu and Sameer haven't only outraged me by lifting my tune. They have also lifted the late and great Anand Bakshi's poetry wholesale! How could Sameer, who is so popular and so successful, do this to Bakshi saab? Isn't there a fear of god in these people?" asked the angry composer.

Aadesh claims the title song of "Humko Deewana Kar Gaye" credited to Anu Malik, was actually composed by Aadesh for Vashu Bhagnani's "Deewanapan".

"You can check the records. It's registered on May 30, 2002, with the Film Writers' Association. I had composed it for Vashu-ji's film, which Ashu Trikha directed.

"But Vashu-ji found it too dreamy and romantic. So I had kept it aside for a big banner. It's a 'pahaadi' tune. Anand Bakshi uncle wrote the words 'Tum nahin aate to achcha tha, aake nahin jaate to achcha tha'. Sameer is now trying to pass Bakshi uncle's words as his own. Where's his conscience?"

The angry composer claims he had played the tune to Kanwar during one of their music sessions.

But Kanwar has a different story to tell.

"The only time I have been associated with Aadesh is when he did the background music for my film 'Baadal'. How can he talk like this? Why is he saying all these things? Can't creative minds think alike?

"If he thinks his song and the one in my film are similar, it's just a coincidence. There are so many love stories being made. Does it mean all of them are copied for one another? The same applies to love songs."

But Aadesh, who's currently being praised for his superb score in Kalpana Lajmi's "Chingari", is adamant.

"They can say what they like. They have blatantly and brazenly lifted my song. And I intend to take legal action. I still remember how Anand Bakshi uncle had congratulated me after hearing the tune. He said, 'Beta, all songs based on the 'raag pahaadi' are hits. Yours will be a success.'

"Now look what they have done. What they have done to me is bad enough. But what they have done to the dead poet Anand Bakshi is unforgivable."

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