We saw a lot of controversies recently between the two bands about having the rights of the song. Last night, PakMediaRevolution decided to publish a story on the situation, without proper verification and said no to Pukaar. It was an unexpected action by a popular trusted media, since no proofs or verifications were mentioned in the article. The action was no doubt immature, personal and badly ruined the image of the band with inclusion of this video against Pukaar, which could only be acceptable if they had mentioned even a single source of information.
On talking to everyone, it was clear that song originally doesn’t belong to both Pukaar or Irtiqa. Mehar Ali was composed by Raza in 1995 who initiated a band called Aatish couple of years ago and recorded the song. Apart from Raza, Aatish consisted of Shahan Ali of Irtiqa and Omer Kabeer of Pukaar. After Aatish ended up, Shahan joined Irtiqa and re-recorded the song in Jonathan Nawaz’s studio. Pukaar also re-recorded the song at Sam’s studio, the only difference was with Raza’s verbal permission. On having conversation with manager of Pukaar, he accepted that song was composed by Raza and band ‘bought’ the rights from him. On having a conversation with Shahan Ali of Irtiqa, he also accepted that the song was composed by Raza (and Shahan himself) but the song is registered under Raza’s name, who is not willingly giving rights to any of them (which clearly means, Irtiqa can’t use the song). On having a telephonic conversation with Raza, he declined the claims of Shahan and said it’s only composed by me long before the band was formed. He also told us that Pukaar had already taken the verbal permission long ago, and the rights have officially been given to the band today on papers.
11 replies on “Pukaar or Irtiqa, Who Owns Mehar Ali?”
Trust me Hammad , this is all “Milli Bhaggat” or what should i call immature acts by these guys. Dont give hype to them . If you will do , another ATIF Vs. Goher & Roxen Vs. Omer Nadeem story will start.
i would like to add something here 🙂
i believe what i wrote was:
“We still have no confirmation of who owns this track. If somebody has the *LEGAL* or legit documents to support this case please come forward and we’ll be happy to promote you :)”
and i just added what we recieved in VERBAL communication!
and what would *koolmuzone* do if i had made a call to Mr. Hammad Dar and had him talk to my lawyer about suppressing some band’s activity and promote myself?
first, i’m a musician myself. second, i would not do such an act(i.e.copying or making a controversy over 1 song). third, that article was just over the issue of how people can manipulate such a thing!
exactly what you *wrote* here, makes my point 🙂
Thanks for your comment Ali, If you weren’t sure about it and didnt have Legal proofs yet, you shouldn’t have included the hate video to ruin band’s image.. I clearly mentioned it happened with the inclusion of video.
i niether made the video, niether did i add it 🙂
i just wrote what my views were on how “WE” were dealt with 🙂 .. and if i could tell you who made that video you’d be laughing 🙂
I dont care who made it, I see it embedded on PMR.. accept it.
LMAO! – ” PakMediaRevolution decided to publish a story on the situation, without proper verification and said no to Pukaar.”
Just ONE questions, from where did KOM verify the information on PMR Article/Situation or whatever ?? Oh lemme guesss.. you plp called ??aah I am not sure oh nahi woh tu shayad koi aur tha ?? or may be i was dreaming …. hmm I think now I must write and article about KOM for not verifying information from PMR about PMR and posting it on their website ??
Nahi yaar Roza lag raha hai tooo tired and very lazy… dont even bother!
ENJOY your mini article 😀
Thanks for your comment Murzie. PMR is a great site, and is growing faster than ever. When you do right, you get traffic, comments, appreciations, loyalty. When you did wrong, try to have enough balls to face the fact.
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Let me tell you how you are making personal attacks. PMR has been enough personal with me already for a long time, I will leave that part because the comment is addressed to you and you are very much aware of that. The band only asked you to wait or it will become a prb for u. The band didn’t mean they will come over and beat you, you took the warning personal. It was a professional statement which means let’s wait til I show u that song is copyrighted to us, or if you leak the other version, you will be making copyright violations.
1. dude you have no idea what u r talking about – you need to grow up 🙂
2. pmr has been personal with you ?? i dont even know who you are ? :S
hahaha.. mister hammad you are not even fully informed about the situation…
point 1. yeh ke murzie bhai was co-ordinating with irtiqa and pukaar on personal level and assured pukaar that he won’t release the track until this matter settles down since he knew both the parties! us ke bawajood if pukaar made the legal advisor call tu is ka kya matlab hai .. ??
Secondly.. pukaar band has already called murzie their manager fahad omar and ali and already cleared out the things and apologised for the call made by legal advisor and admitted that should not have happened that way when murzie was intouch with them on personal level
AND THIRD… we don’t need to start this as a controversy to get cheap publicity and take this out as a personal grudge 🙂
As you’ve said yourself that PMR is a big medium and such things are not even a limiting factor for us.. i wrote that article and i even commented here.. and that article is still there, if we were to be pussies that article shouldn’t be there by now 🙂
@Murtaza, I used the word PMR, not murtaza, you don’t know me doesn’t mean PMR wasn’t personal.. It’s a team, ask the front-men you have got.
@Ali
1) The pukaar band says to me, Murzie apologized for article. PMR n Pukaar needs to clarify who is apologizing.
2) If it wasn’t personal grudge, you wouldn’t have removed Aag by Pukaar as well.
3) I know who is a pussy, you wouldn’t have called Faizan otherwise to save your ass and put the video inclusion on Arsal.
haha look Murzie can not write proper english 😀 well yes pmr is targeting pukaar personally bcos they have removed their song aag