India, April 15 -- Oscar winning musician AR Rahman has reacted to singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya's claims that the music composer is responsible for decline of live instrumentation and overuse of technology.

In a recent interview with ANI, Abhijeet slammed Rahman for disrespecting fellow artists and undermining instrument players with his tech-heavy production while composing music. He also blamed Rahman for the recent shift in music industry where everything is done on laptop while artists who play music are left jobless.

(Also read: AR Rahman made Padma awardees wait on bench for hours, says Abhijeet Bhattacharya: 'Ye ek Padma Bhushan ki izzat hai')

Rahman has now come out in his defense and said that Abhijeet is entitled to his opini...