Kolkata, April 30: The Calcutta High Court restrained the use of the 1981 hit song ‘Apne to jayse tayse’ from Amitabh Bachchan starrer ‘Lawaris’ in the Sajid Khan directed ‘Housefull’, which premiered today.
In an interim stay till June 2, Justice Nadira Patherya today restrained producer Sajid Nadiadwala from the cinematic use of the Kalyanji-Anandji number in the new film, where it has been remixed with another song ‘Dhanno’.
Anandji and the heirs of music directors Kalyanji had filed a suit before the High Court claiming that the producers of ‘Housefull’ had used the song ‘Apne to jayse tayse, thodi aise ya oyse’ without the copyright.
Heirs of Prakash Mehra, producer of ‘Lawaris’, also filed a separate suit before the court claiming that the song was written by the late Mehra and the right to the lyrics remained with them.
–PTI