Farhan Saeed, the Pakistani Jal Band singer, accused Salim Merchant of copying his song Roiyaan and wrote about Salim Merchant’s plagiarism on his twitter handle.
Farhan wrote that somebody sent him the song Hareya by Salim Merchant and it’s exactly the copy of his song Roiyaan released in 2014.
Farhan added that when they steal somebody’s work, people have the audacity to call them as an artist, and he also said that if you want to do it, you should ask permission for it, and if the other person really wants to do it, the least they can do is to make it good.
Someone just sent me @salim_merchant song HAREYA, which is a total copy of my song ROIYAAN. I wonder they have the audacity to call themselves artists when they steal someone's work. Karna hi hai to pooch ke kuro aur ager poochna nahin hai to at least acha to kuro!#stopstealing
— Farhan Saeed (@farhan_saeed) September 14, 2019
Listen to Roiyaan by Farhan Saeed:
Salim Merchant replied that it was just a matter of coincidence that the chorus of his song Haareya was exactly the same as that of Farhan’s song Roiyaan and added that there were many times when the music’s notes had a natural progression that made it sound exactly the same and that he and Sulaiman had a track record of never plagiarizing and also said that he never had heard of Farhan’s song Roiyaan.
Farhan I just heard your song. It’s a mere coincidence that the chorus of Haareya is like your song. To be honest I’ve never heard it before. It happens many a times when notes have a natural progression from each other. @Sulaiman & I have a track record of never plagiarising.
— salim merchant (@salim_merchant) September 14, 2019
Farhan also replied that if Salim said so, as another coincidence is that they both had the same lyricist.
Why don’t you check with him!
If i had to copy, I would have done that way long back in my career. I really wish I had heard your song before I made mine. Would have surely made changes to our composition to make it sound different from yours. Anyway, Hope you understand..— salim merchant (@salim_merchant) September 14, 2019
Listen to Salim-Sulaiman’s song yourself and decide if they have copied Farhan Saeed’s Roiyaan or not? India has certainly banned Pakistani artists but it looks like their new motive is to “steal” the talent since they can’t approach our artists anymore.
