Following the release of Animal’s trailer and poster, Sameer Anjaan criticizes the filmmakers for failing to credit the song’s composer and writer.
The directors of Ranbir Kapoor’s Animal have come under fire from acclaimed lyricist Sameer Anjaan over the movie’s promotional materials. The removal of the film’s composer and lyricist from the poster and pre-teaser has the veteran actor Shitala Pandey upset with the producers for a reason he considers to be very important. He claimed in a recent conversation that a “huge nexus working” to “ruin the music fraternity’s importance” exists.
For those who missed the pre-teaser, Kapoor’s character is fighting against a horde of masked attackers while a Punjabi song, Dang Khadke, plays throughout the entire clip. Despite this, there is no reference to the perpetrator.
Sameer Anjaan voiced his frustration with the makers of Ranbir Kapoor’s Animal. He said, “I am feeling so bad and shameful, that it has come to this stage. I don’t know who the lyricist of the film’s songs is, but I don’t know why they are not fighting and keeping silent. It has to be done jointly, one person won’t be able to. I remember Nadeem-Shravan (music composers) and me putting it in our agreements when we worked together, that no poster will be released without our name on it. I don’t know why the director and producer don’t think it’s important to mention the composer and lyricist’s name.”
Stating that this is the reason the quality of music “is going down and down,” Sameer Anjaan continued, “Animal is such a huge film, even the sound recordist’s name is there on the poster! How can you do this injustice to the music fraternity? Can you imagine? Aisa nahi hai ki there will be no music in the film, jiski wajah se they didn’t put the names. I think there is a huge nexus working on this. They know we go to the Indian Performing Rights Society. They are knowingly doing all this to ruin the music fraternity’s importance.”
In the same chat, Sameer also mentioned that he intended to organize a gathering of numerous film lyricists to talk about this. He said, “This is really bad. I am going to call a meeting with all leading composers and writers, and going to tell them to please raise their voice otherwise they will not get their due credit.”
