The music industry in Pakistan like everything else has gone through many ups and downs. The worst thing however has been the copyright laws or lack thereof and how Pakistani music gets stolen frequently by India and India does not even bother to give any credit to the original artists. From legends as NFAK to the younger lot, all Pakistani singers have faced this time and again and it looks like this time we will see a Sonu Nigam song which is apparently not his own. Sonu Nigam just sang a song for T-Series in collaboration with DJ Sheizwood titled Sun Zara.
Apparently Sun Zara is a copy of Pakistani singer Omer Nadeem’s song Aye Khuda. He released that song 14 years ago and it was available on YouTube to get copied.
Here is the original song:
Omer Nadeem has reacted to plagiarism. The singer said that he does not care too much if something like this happens at this point but they can at least mention him in credits when they are copying his song. Here is what he said:
This is how the public has reacted to plagiarism: