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The Supreme Court asked euphony composer A.R. Rahman and the producers of Tamil movie Ponniyin Selvan II connected Friday to see giving “some benignant of an acknowledgement” to Dhrupad singer and Padma Shri awardee Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar for the philharmonic creation “Shiva Stuti” utilized successful the opus “Veera Raja Veera” featured successful the Tamil film.
The opus creation is based connected “Shiva Stuti”, primitively sung by the Dagar brothers, Late Ustad N. Faiyazuddin Dagar and Late Ustad Zahiruddin Dagar, the begetter and uncle, respectively, of Mr. Wasifuddin Dagar.
Mr. Dagar has argued that the movie credits and acknowledges that the opus was based connected “Dagarvani Tradition Dhrupad” - a wide stylistic attack to Hindustani Classical euphony - but it did not springiness immoderate recognition to him.
A Bench headed by Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was proceeding a plea by Mr. Wasifuddin Dagar against the September 2025 Delhi High Court order, which had held determination was nary prima facie grounds of the Junior Dagar Brothers being the authors of a classical rendition of “Shiv Stuti”.
“The archetypal show does not needfully mean authorship. Your lawsuit is much of an inference from the archetypal show that it is authorship. The contented is whether you were the creator oregon got it from the Dagar contented and sang it for the archetypal time,” Justice Bagchi addressed Mr. Dagar’s counsel.
The counsel responded that his lawsuit had the rights to the composition. “My begetter and his member had created it,” the counsel submitted.
The tribunal past underlined that the Dagarwani tradition’s publication needed to beryllium acknowledged.
“The originality of the tune is undisputed. If these gharanas had not contributed to the shastriya sangeet (classical music), bash you deliberation these modern singers would person managed,” the Bench addressed Mr. Rahman’s counsel, elder advocator Abhishek Singhvi.
Mr. Singhvi said that nary objection had been raised during erstwhile renditions. “But during our rendition, helium (Dagar) objected,” the elder advocator said.
“See, determination should beryllium immoderate acknowledgement. They are accepted worshippers of classical music. He is not successful the competitory domain. They privation respect and recognition,” the apex tribunal addressed Mr. Singhvi, scheduling the lawsuit for proceeding connected February 20.
