India, April 25 -- The Delhi high court on Friday passed an interim order against music director AR Rahman in a copyright infringement suit filed by Ustad Faiyaz Wasifuddin Dagar, a renowned classical singer, over the song composition "Veera Raja Veera" for Tamil movie Ponniyin Selvan 2 (PS2), concluding that the song was identical to 'Shiva Stuti', composed by Dagar's father and uncle, with certain changes.
A bench of justice Prathiba M Singh directed Rahman and the movie production company Madras Talkies to make corrections in the song credits, specially by acknowledging the junior Dagar brothers - Nasir Zahiruddin and Nasir Faiyazuddin, taking note of the fact that the song was previously credited to the Dagarvani tradition.
The cour...
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