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Devi Sri Prasad blacklisted?
By Moviebuzz
Friday, 29 April , 2005, 13:03


Devi Sri Prasad, the Telugu music director is having a nightmare in Tamil films. He has done music for two films- Mayaavi and Sachein and it has been found that all his numbers (especially in Sachein) are rehashes of his Telugu hits!

Thanu, the producer of Sachein was hauled to court a day before the release of the film by Gemini Film Circuits claiming that a song in the film was lifted from their Shankar Dada MBBS. The poor producer had to drop this particular song shot on Bipasha Basu and Vijay, which was the highlight of the film.

The fans of Vijay were furious that they could not see the song and now after 12 days of release, when the ‘sexy item number’ was added with a new tune, the film has bombed badly. Now comes another thunder bolt from the blue as a Telugu producer Subba Reddy has filed case claiming that the rustic ‘gana’ number : “Gundu Maanga Thoppukkulle…” in Sachein is lifted from his Telugu film Your’s Abhi!

Reddy has approached the Madras High Court with a petition and demanded Rs 30 lakhs compensation from Thanu. So Devi Sri Prasad has to take the blame and he is now being blacklisted by producers. As a leading Tamil music director pointed out- “What he has done is unethical and he cannot getaway with it as copyright laws are becoming more strict these days”. And to rub it in, Vijay has sacked him from providing music for his latest film Sivakasi and instead signed Srikanth Deva.