Pritam facing baseless allegation!

Pritam clears the air in a visibly upset tone, "Not just is the report baseless, it also comes at a wrong time, especially when the film is a hit and the music has proved to be a blockbuster ever since it released. Imagine you are required to even answer to such stupid quotes when you had rather move on and work on creating an even better soundtrack. This is some piece of irresponsible writing. If someone else would have composed a song, why it would have come under my name? What I had told the journalist was that the piano riff of 'O Meri Jaan' which is similar to the beginning guitar riff of silent lucidity is played by my programmer. That's about it; the song has nothing to do with it. I don't know if I should actually be reacting like this to each and every allegation that comes my way but this time around let me take this up. Let me play for you the first ever recorded version of 'O Meri Jaan' in the sound clip. At that time it was called 'Tu Muskura'. This version is sung by Kunal Ganjawala while the lyrics were written by Mayur Puri. The song was recorded at Yashraj recording studios way back in August 2006. At that time we were not happy with this version. Hence we reworked on the orchestration and lyrics from scratch. Since Kunal Ganjawala was not in the country during that time, the revised version now titled 'O Meri Jaan' had KK coming in. On close hearing you would realize that except for the unintentional piano riff, the song has nothing to do with silent lucidity."

But there are alleged similarities between another track, 'In Dino Dil Mera', with a Wakar Ali track! "Untrue yet again. For the song 'In Dinon Dil Mera', there is just a two line similarity with Wakar Ali's song. And by the way, even that is unintentional. I asked Anurag about it later and even he was taken by surprise. He heard the song in a party as an old 'ghazal' and somehow the line containing 'Izazat - Mohabbat' stuck in his head for days," Pritam quips.

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