Neha gets her deserved credit

Our Bollywood industry is known for its many different shades. Besides being popular for its routine song-dance routines and glamouraous star lives, it also thrives of plagirism. Movie directors, writers, producers, music composers (sometimes) copy work, previously done by others in the same field. These very people label their lifted work as ‘original’ and ‘loosely inspired’.

Sadly, the victims are left empty pockets and no one to hear their voice for help. Afterall it’s never easy to stand against the big-wiggs of Hindi film industry.

However, thankfully this trend is slowly changing.

Yesterday new-bie singer Neha Bhasin (ex-Viva fame) managed to get a stay order on the release of the film, Aryan -Unbreakable.

Neha claims that she wasn’t given due credit for the current chart-buster, ‘Ek look, ek look’. Instead, the credit was taken by the producer of the film, Poonam Khubani. Not only a stay order, but the Delhi High Court judgement has restrained the producers of Aryan from promoting the film, and its music, without displaying her name as a lead female singer.

Besides not being paid for her work, the singer was stripped off from her ‘lead singer credit’ and was mentioned as ‘back-up vocals’.

This is what Neha told Mumbai Mirror regarding the court case :

She fought, and emerged winner. And how. “I filed the case in the Delhi high court around the last week of February and a legal notice was sent to Anand Raj Anand on February 14,” she says. “I was initially sceptical about the court case but never did I lose faith in the judicial system since I had proof with me.”

“I’m sure this kind of injustice is rampant in the Indian music industry today. But no one goes to court. I just have been lucky,” she adds. “The entire credit for justice given, goes to the judge. My purpose wasn’t to harm anyone. I just wanted acknowledgment for my efforts.”

Hopefully others in similar situation will learn from Neha’s experience and make an effort to fight back such injustice.