Lyricist Sameer lashes out at makers of Ranbir Kapoor's Animal for not giving due credit to composer

Veteran lyricist Sameer Anjaan has expressed his displeasure with Ranbir Kapoor-starrer Animal movie's poster. The pre-teaser of the film was released on June 11 and features a Punjabi song in the background. Neither the pre-teaser nor the poster features the names of the lyricist or composer, which Sameer Anjaan has pointed out.

The composition of Dang Khadke is credited to Manan Bhardwaj, with lyrics penned by Bhupinder Babbal. Although Sameer admits to not knowing them, but he wants them to fight against this ‘injustice’. During a chat with Hindustan Times, Sameer said, “Animal is such a huge film, even the sound recordist’s name is there on the poster. How can you do this injustice to the music fraternity? Can you imagine? Aisa nahi hai ki there will be no music in the film, jiski wajah se they didn’t put the names. I think there is a huge nexus working on this."

Sameer said that the director and producer are purposely trying to undermine the importance of the music industry. He also mentioned that the decline in the quality of Hindi music is due to the lack of proper credit given to music composers and lyricists. He revealed that he and the music composer duo Nadeem-Shravan used to make it a condition in their contracts to have their names on the film’s poster and that he now intends to organise a meeting to ensure accountability for those who fail to give proper credit to writers and composers.Ranbir Kapoor is all set to take over the big screen in a rugged, never-before-seen avatar with Animal. Directed by Sandeep Reddy Vanga, the film also stars Rashmika Mandanna, Anil Kapoor and Bobby Deol.