India, Feb. 3 -- Music composer Amaal Mallik recently opened up about the problems plaguing the Hindi film music industry. In an interview with Pinkvilla, the singer revealed how he has been dropped from films for speaking up and drew comparisons between the earnings of Hindi and South Indian music composers.

Amaal spoke about the lack of equal rights in the Hindi film music industry and revealed that he has only been able to buy a car for himself in 16 years. He further explained the disparity in earnings between Hindi and South Indian composers and, citing Sooraj Dooba Hain as an example, said, "It earned Rs.60-70 crore for the label, and I got nothing except publishing rights, which are negligible - not even close to Rs.1 crore. There...