Lyricist moves court against Pritish Nandy
Posted on: June 20, 2009
The Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Borivli, has issued an order to conduct an inquiry against Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd (PNC). Lyricist Prashant Krishna Gaur Vasl had filed a plea against PNC and six others. Vasl has filed a complaint alleging that PNC and its employees – Bobbie Ghosh (Chief Operating Officer), Ishita Pritish Nandy (Vice President, Creative Services), Yatender Verma (Vice President Finance), music composer Sandesh Shandilya and Sony BMG Music Entertainment Pvt Ltd have committed punishable offences under section 420, 463, 464, 465, 467, 468, 471, r/w 34 of the IPC and the under section 63 of the Copyright Act 1957. According to Vasl, PNC had asked him to write lyrics for their film Meerabai Not Out in January 2007. Sandesh Shandilya, who is also accused, had assured Vasl that his name would appear first in the music credits. Since Vasl was assured ample publicity, he did not demand any monetary compensation. To Vasl’s dismay, his name did not appear anywhere in the credits. Worse still, although Vasl had not given any NOC for using the song, the accused forged the NOC format while finalising the deal with Sony BMG Music Entertainment. Vasl said, “Earlier, I had filed a complaint with the Film Writers’ Association and the Charkop police station, but so far, no action has been taken against the accused. Now the honourable court has issued an order to inquire into the matter.” “After the order was issued, I have received threats on my Facebook account by Rangita Nandy. My car was also damaged by unknown people,” claimed Vasl. The order has been forwarded to the Charkop police station to inquire under section 202 Cr.P.C. and to submit report on or before August 7, 2009. Ram Kamal Mukherjee, Vice President of PNC, said, “I have no idea about the court order. If you are talking about Vasl, his problem is not with PNC but with music director Sandesh Shandilya. Perhaps, Sandesh had signed on the NOC. We have all the required documents to prove that. And we have given Vasl enough publicity.” |
Fenil and Bollywood 
September 1, 2009 at 4:26 PM
No.Its not that simple.Its actually a case of forgery by the PNC..through Ms Ishita P nandy,who created a forged NOC with my forged signatures on it.The NOC was required by them,to transfer my copyrights in their favour..that I never DID..I never signed the NOC,then how come Sony is selling the audio/video of the film worldwide..the film that has my songs..As such,its a Copyright violation case too..besides being a Forgery…My statements were recorded at Charkope police station on the 16th august after,me pursuing them,like any thing.I am awaiting the police to submit its report on or before the mid of sept,when the hearing is fixed,and hope,TRUTH shall prevail.I offer myself for the worst punishment,if I appear to have filed this case with some,ulterior motive…In any case,I shall not allow the culprits to be spared..at all.who so ever they are.