Pak Actor Mehwish Hayat Calls Alia Bhatt’s song Prada Plagiarized, Slams SRK’s Bard of Blood

Bollywood is facing a stew of both, shiny and sluggish phases. There has been a constant flux when it comes to generating content for the movies. While on one hand we have unconventional scripts coming up and stories that need to be told, on the other hand, the showbiz seems to prevail with remakes and sequels, indicating the lack of original content. And in such a scenario, accusations of plagiarism come as another terror to the filmmakers and actors.

A Pakistani actress Mehwish Hayat has taken to her social media and publicly criticized Bollywood for its alleged hypocrisy.  She claims that Alia Bhatt’s music video, Prada, is stolen from Pakistani songs, and further slams Shah Rukh Khan’s Netflix production Bard of Blood as well.

Hayat called out SRK’s production an “Anti Pakistan Project”, which stars Emraan Hashmi in the lead role along with Kirti Kulhari, Vineet Kumar Singh, Jaideep Ahlawat, Amyra Dastur, and Sobhita Dhulipala. She wrote in her tweet, “This just vindicates what I have been saying. Another week, and yet another anti-Pakistan project. Now can we wake up, smell the coffee and see Bollywood’s agenda for what it is? Shah Rukh Khan, be patriotic, nobody is stopping you - just don’t do it at the expense of vilifying us.”

Besides, she also took a dig at Alia Bhatt. After several Twitter users pointed out the similarity between Pakistani song Gore Rang and Alia’s recent song Prada, Hayat tweeted, “I find this strange. On one hand Bollywood vilifies Pakistan at every opportunity they get. On the other, they continue to steal our songs. Copyright violation and royalty payments obviously mean nothing to them.”

Pakistani song Gore Rang Ka Zamana is written by Shoaib Mansoor and was released as part of Vital Signs Volume 1. However, there has been no reaction from either of the two accused makers of the projects-  Bard of Blood and the song Prada.