Another one bites the dust! This rising trend of Indian musicians copying the work of Pakistani artists is not stopping any time soon. There are now countless examples of this happening more and more often.

Most recently we had Abrar ul Haq’s classic Punjabi song Nach Punjaban copied by Bollywood for their film ‘Jug Jugg Jeeyo‘. Where the real issue was the fact that, legally speaking, the song wasn’t plagiarized. Abrar simply did not own the rights to the song, his record label did, and T-Series legally acquired those rights to remake the song.

Omer Nadeem’s Aye Khuda

This time, we have Omer Nadeem whose 14-year-old song Aye Khuda has been plagiarized by T-Series. The song, now titled Sun Zara, has Sonu Nigam lending his vocals.

The credits to Sun Zara don’t mention Omer Nadeem or even his record label anywhere which makes this even more sinister considering that the T-Series version of Nach Punjaban did in fact credit Abrar-ul-Haq and his label.

Omer Nadeem’s Responds

Yesterday, Nadeem took to Instagram and broke his silence on all this with a post.

“I’ve reached a point in my life where I couldn’t care less about these things. But hey, if you’re going to do it, at least toss a little credit to the OG track. If you’re gonna pull this off, could’ve at least done it with some finesse. Huge fan of Sonu Nigam, but let’s be real, this is light years away from the real deal.”

Class response from Omer. He rightfully called out Sonu Nigam for not even bothering to give credits to the original with a cheeky remark at the end comparing the quality of the two music videos.

Armeena Rana Khan also commented under the post and tagged Sonu Nigam.

“@sonunigamofficial why are stealing music?”

The music video was released 3 days ago and has already amassed 1.3 million views, almost three times that of Nadeem’s original song from 2009. It is truly disheartening to see Bollywood so rampantly plagiarize the work of Pakistani artists with no consequences whatsoever. These plagiarized songs are also bound to outperform the originals they are copying from considering the huge audience at their disposal.

Hopefully, Nigam and T-Series do take note of this and credit the artists behind the original song.