Music producer Ritviz Srivastava has sued T-Series for copyright infringement of his 2017 song Udd gaye. Ritviz has accused the music label in the lawsuit of allegedly lifting a part of his hit track for a song, titled Hum toh udd gaye, which was featured in Kartik Aaryan-starrer Pati Patni Aur Woh.
The lawsuit alleges that there are strong compositional similarities between Ritviz's Udd gaye and T-Series' Hum toh udd gaye-- but the latter doesn't credit Ritviz. It also claims that the defendant copied the hook (Hum toh udd gaye) for the film track Hum toh udd gaye from Ritviz's 2017 song, which includes the phrase "Hum toh udd gaye."
The case is currently in the Bombay Hight Court, with the plaintiff seeking ad-interim injunction. The next hearing on the case is on July 3, a source confirmed to us.
In March, Ritviz had taken an indirect dig at T-Series and the makers of Pati Patni Aur Woh for allegedly using his song in the movie without his permission.
In a lengthy post on his social media accounts, Ritiviz, without mentioning T-Series directly, had written, "I went to the theatre to watch a movie last month, just a regular night out with my folks. Half way through the movie a track played and that's when it really hit me. I was listening to a song that's ridiculously similar to 'Udd Gaye'. I am pretty sure there are others like me, and in case you are wondering if I was somehow involved in the making of the said song, I would just like to clear the air and say that neither I or my appointed management/ publisher/ distributor had any role to play in this nor was any adaptation license for my song 'Udd Gaye' taken by any music company in any part of the world."
After seeing the young artiste's post, many people had come out in support of him online, with many calling out T-Series for "blatantly copying" Ritviz's song.
This comes after Sonu Nigam called out the alleged dominance of "two big labels" in the music industry in an Instagram video on June 18. On June 22, Sonu again uploaded a video, alleging that even though he didn't take any names, Bhushan Kumar of T-Series sent out "press releases" in the media quoting six singers to counter the former's views that the music industry doesn't run on favouritism.
(News18 reached out to T-Series for a comment. The story will be updated as and when we get the response.)
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