 "'Saiyaara' music composer Tanishk Bagchi breaks silence on the allegations of the title song being copied: 'The similarities are fine, it can happen, but...'")
A few weeks back, who would have imagined a Bollywood romantic musical drama titled Saiyaara featuring debutants Ahaan Panday & Aneet Padda in the lead would be crossing Rs 400 crore at the global box office.
The Mohit Suri directorial has performed way beyond expectations and is now aiming to surpass the business of movies, which are the highest-grossers of big stars globally.
Saiyaara currently stands with a global collection of around Rs 395 crore and is now set to surpass the business of Simmba (Rs 400.19 crore), 3 Idiots (Rs 400.61 crore), Brahmastra (Rs 418.8 crore), Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 (Rs 423.85 crore) and Chennai Express (Rs 424.54 crore).
But now, music composer of the film Tanishk Bagchi has reacted to the allegations that the title song has been lifted from a song by One Direction and even Jubin Nautiyal’s song Humnava.
Breaking his silence, Bagchi was quoted saying, “Whatever I do, people will have something to say because they don’t have [anything better to do. They keep on looking for opportunities to put me down.”
He added, “But ultimately, the song will go wherever it’s destined to, and that’s what’s happening with Saiyaara too. As for the comparisons — if you look at the melody, the chords are the same. The A minor scale has just about 3–4 chords, but every melody has a different soul.”
Once known as the composer for remixing classic songs of yore, Bagchi also added, “Even if you can do that, it’s really difficult to make it a hit. All said and done, we didn’t steal anything. The similarities are fine, it can happen, but it’s not like we did it on purpose.”
“Idhar se utha ke udhar nahi kiya (We didn’t pick something from there and add it here). We worked on the emotion of the song, and that worked. That’s the magic of Saiyaara,” continued the composer.