Biopic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi: their intentions were not good: Javed Akhtar

The lyricist Javed Akhtar criticized the explanation given by the producer of a biographical film about Modi, Sandip Ssingh, who stated that Akhtar had been credited as a lyricist in the poster, one of his old songs being part of the movie. .

After Akhtar expressed his astonishment in finding his name credited as PM song lyricist Narendra Modi did not write a song to that effect, Ssingh tweeted: "We took the Ishwar Allah songs from the 1947 Film: The Earth and the song Suno Gaur Se Duniya Walon from the movie Dus in our movie. We therefore attributed the credits due to the respective lyric authors, Javed Sahab and Sameer Ji. @TSeries is our musical partner. "

This explanation was not very positive for Akhtar, who questioned the intention of the manufacturers to put his name on the poster. Akhtar told Mumbai Mirror Sunday: "First of all, I do not know who Sandip Ssingh is. Second, when you take an old song in your movie, you do not give credit to the original person on your promotional material because I did not write anything for the PM Narendra Modi movie. You can not behave as if you were part of your device, as a composer.

You indicate at most a mention in the credits as well as the name of the original film whose song was extracted. If they wanted to respect me, why did not they give the same to Shankar Ehsaan Loy and AR Rahman? (music directors of the songs mentioned by Sandip). "

Akhtar went on to say that he was shocked that no one contacted him before using his name to promote the film. "If they bought my song from the music company, they should have mentioned the original movie (1947: Earth) while using my name on promotional material, along with AR Rahman's music.

They would have done it if their intentions were correct, which was clearly not the case. Such an incident has never occurred in the history of Indian film. Nowadays, every second movie has a recreated song, but the original lyricist has never been mentioned on the movie posters. "

Akhtar's wife, actor Shabana Azmi interferes in the battle on Twitter and says, "It is clear that this was done with the deliberate intent to deceive the public by making him believe that @Javedakhtarjadu wrote the songs for Mr PM Narendra Modi when the song Ishwar Allah Tere JahaN comes to me from the movie @IamDeepaMehta 1947Earth. "(Sic)

The trailer for the film directed by Omung Kumar, starring Vivek Oberoi was released on March 20 and the film is due out on April 5, six days before the first election phase. 11 April.