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Friday, 8th August, 2014, 02:50 PM IST Shemaroo Entertainment has sent a legal notice to the makers of the film ‘Tamanchey’ starring Nikhil Dwivedi and Richa Chadda for lifting a song from an Amitabh Bachchan film.
The trailer of ‘Tamanchey’ features the song “Pyar mein dil pe maar de goli” from Amitabh Bachchan’s 1983 film ‘Mahaan’ and it is being said that the makers don’t have the song’s copyrights to have used it in the first place.
Ketan Maru of Shemaroo said, “We were surprised to see Mahaan’s song being played in the background in Tamanchey’s trailer. We are the IPR holders of the song and the makers of ‘Tamanchey’ have not taken any permission from us. We will soon send a notice to them about the same.”
However, Nikhil Dwivedi defends the usage of the song saying,“We have taken the audio rights of the song from the music company and we are not using video footage from the film, so there is no violation. There have been several cases like this in the past; for instance, “Tayyab Ali pyar ka dushman” is a song from ‘Amar Akbar Anthony’ that was used in ‘Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbaai Dobaara’ and “Apni toh jaise taise” from ‘Laawaris’ was played in ‘Housefull’.” But Maru refutes all arguments saying, “The makers of ‘Tamanchey’ have created a new IPR by getting their hands on the audio rights of the song, this has affected our IPR and we object to that.” |