that pritam has again been accused of plagiarism doesnt come as a surprise its simply another addition to the long list of alleged lifts that have pritam have been accused of but what could be of importance is that this time around the allegation is about a number from a vipul shah film incidentally shah had been very vocal about original content so much so that he had also fought a case against the makers of poran jai jolia re that was supposed to be a copy of namastey londonassamese singer kumar bhabesh has alleged that pritams zor ka jhatka number has copied from two of his numbers the mukhda of zkj resembles my composition dehati lahi lahi from the album sunpahi the tune of the antara is a copy of my song ruksana from the album roja while sunpahi was released in 2000 roza was released in 2008 since i was busy shooting a music video in the karbi anglong district of assam for the past two months i couldnt voice my opinion the whole of assam has heard my number and is supporting me says bhabesh who also has a hindi and a bengali album to his credit apart from many assamese numbers interestingly enough the audio cd of action replayy does mention a credit for zkj its a different thing that the creditline reads as based on traditional melody and has no reference to kumar bhabesh copyright cases are not entertained when a song is in the domain of folk ask bhabesh if his numbers too are based on traditional melodies and hence the similarity with zkj and he says there could be some traditional notes but the main tune and the lyrics of the songs have been composed by me the songs are extremely popular in assam pritam could have at least told me that he wants to use a similar tune there was absolutely no communication between us i am waiting for pritams reaction if he doesnt respond ill be forced to take legal action though there have been several plagiarism charges against pritam there havent yet been a single instance of a legal case being filed against himwhile bhabesh says he is saddened by pritams act he would want director vipul shah to take up his case i am told that he has fought a plagiarism case in kolkata i want to tell him that injustice has been done to me senior musicians in assam have called me up to say that they too have spotted that the ar number is a copy of two of my numbers says the singer who has already come up with 3000 songswhile it still remains to be seen whether zkj is indeed based on a traditional melody or a borrowed number director vipul shahs comment in the context of plagiarism charges against a song from his film is very relevant says shah i will take action if i get to know that the song is a copy