Musician slams Kriti Sanon- Kajol’s Do Patti song ‘Maiyya’ for plagiarism, calls it a ‘blatant’ copy

In her Facebook post Nilanjana wrote, “Kindly report @tseriesfilms, @sachettandonofficial, and @sachetparamparaofficial. They have blatantly used my husband Rajarshi Mitter’s track without permission or legal action in their Bollywood movie song ‘Maiyya’ from ‘Do Patti’.”

She added, “I’m asking all my fellow musicians and artists to shame this music director and the entire T-Series music company. How dare you guys do this? If you can’t make music, then don’t steal it!Sachet Tandon, I’m speaking directly to you – you’re a shameless, filthy thief. How dare you not even ask for the rights from my husband? You’re a thief! Go to hell!”

Here’s the track created by Mitter:

Netizens extended support to the musician and called out T-Series and Sachet- Parampara in this case. One person wrote, “Sachet Tandon Shame on you man,” another person commented, “How Shameful man,” yet another person wrote, “Just heard the two songs and yes they do sound exactly same. Like exactly same, note by note!!!.”

Here’s the song in question from Do Patti:

This is not the first time T-Series has faced allegations of plagiarism. The company has been involved in several copyright infringement controversies in the past. Recently, Pakistani actor Adnan Siddiqui slammed T-Series for allegedly plagiarising the song “Akhiyaan De Kol” from the same movie, Do Patti. Siddiqui claimed that the song bore a resemblance to a Pakistani folk song.

T-Series has previously faced allegations of plagiarism for songs such as “Genda Phool”, which was accused of copying the Bengali folk song “Boroloker Bitilo”, and “O Saathi”, which faced allegations of copying the Pakistani song by Atif Aslam. Additionally, composer Akarsh Sharma accused T-Series of plagiarising his song “Humsafar” in 2017, and Pakistani singer Mustafa Zahid claimed that T-Series’ song “Tum Hi Ho” from Aashiqui 2 was copied from his own song in 2013.

The music community awaits a response from T-Series and Sachet-Parampara regarding the latest allegations.