Anu Malik in pangs with Jaan-E-Mann’s mus

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Anu Malik in pangs with Jaan-E-Mann's music
By MIO Team
Oct 21, 2006, 06:35

Just as Anu Malik was enjoying the new phase of his career with the success of 'Jaan-E-Mann' and 'Umrao Jaan' music, he gets surrounded with allegations. Though he claims that he composes the lovely and soulful music, there are reports that the music has actually been scored by A R Rahman's assistant, G V Prakash. As he is basking in appreciation he has garnered, the big question is, are the allegations true? Inside source say that director Shirish Kunder was completely disappointed by Anu's tunes and so he sat with A R Rahman's assistant G V Prakash Kumar to redo the score. Thus Anu has no moral right to take credit for the tunes, as he has not composed even a single note.

On his part Anu strongly denies the charges against him. "I swear that all the songs in Jaan-e-Mann are done by me. GV is a production guy. Every tune from Sau dard hai to Ajnabee to Sabko maloom hai, is mine. We took GV for the sound production. Those who are spreading this strange rumour should try to create the same tunes with someone else. You think Shirish Kunder would allow me to take credit for the music if I hadn't done it? My style is easily identifiable in Jaan-e-Mann. Actually the music in Jaan-e-Mann and Umrao Jaan are so good they can't believe I've done it. Actually, G V Prakash left Mumbai before the background music for which he's credited could be done. So Shirish and a guy called Rohit did the background. No one in this industry will give me a chance if I wasn't delivering the goods. Ask Gulzarsaab, who's written the lyrics. I've always felt I'm very good provided I've a director like J.P. Dutta or Shirish Kunder to inspire me. I yearn to work with Aditya Chopra and Sanjay Bhansali. These guys know what they want," he says.

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