Rahman will get shock from Delhi Excessive Court docket
Rahman will get shock from Delhi Excessive Court docket. It’s recognized that Padma Shri awardee Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar and Indian classical lyricist filed a legislation swimsuit in 2023 accusing Oscar winner Rahman of copying the Veera Raja Veera in Mani Ratnam’s Ponniyin Selvan 2 from his Shiva Stuti, composed by his father Nasir Faiyazuddin Dagar and uncle Zahiruddin Dagar, who’re famend as Junior Dagar brothers.
Dagar in his legislation swimsuit requested the courtroom to bar Rahman and the manufacturing home from utilizing the music completely and demanded compensation for a similar. Justice Pratibha Singh, handed an interim order noting that ‘Veera Raja Veera’ is “not merely based mostly on or impressed from” ‘Shiva Stuti’, however actually “equivalent to it with sure adjustments.”
The courtroom directed Rahman and Madras Talkies to deposit Rs 2crs with the Court docket Registry whereas the case is pending. It additionally imposed value of Rs 2 lakh on the defendants.
The courtroom additionally directed the OTT platforms and on-line platforms, the slide depicting the credit in regard to the impugned music, shall get replaced as below “Composition based mostly on Shiva Stuti by Late Ustad N Faiyazuddin Dagar and Late Ustad Zahiruddin Dagar”.
Nevertheless Madras Talkies and Rahman denied all of the allegations stating that ‘Shiva Stuti’ belongs to the Dhrupad custom of Hindustani classical music and types part of the general public area.
