differently he cited the example of a song sung by sp balasubramaniam and music given by ar rahman and how cover versions demean their value the cover version companies were merely giving a couple of thousand rupees as royalty and exploit ing the copyright holdersthere have been several rounds of cases between the same companies about other cover versions and mars has not been able to get a favourable verdict from any court the advocate also alleged that immediately after rajkumar died in april 2006 mars started sending notices to encash on the popularity of the actor they got an injunction from the kolkata hc mars approached a local court in bengaluru to get its notices implemented which was rejected mars then approached the hc in 2009 in the closing arguments the advocate for saregama said that involuntary license was never the intention of the legislature and cover versions put huge risk to the value of the originals advocate for mars said there is no copying of the original song cover version is only done on older songs and new instruments are used to this the court said and spoil the effect it is horrible what 6070 musicians do in an orchestra you end up doing in a mad house justice anand byrareddy heard the counsels for both companies on january 2 and reserved the judgment after observing that the arguments were interesting raj the singer the late icon of sandalwood rajkumar was also a popular singer though a trained singer from his professional theatre days he rarely sang in films till the early 1970s when the hit song yaare koogadali from sampattige sawal turned him into a regular singer before that it was pb sreenivas who sung most of the film songs that rajkumar acted in rajkumar won a national award for singing in 1992