Singer and rapper Badshah is being slammed for stealing lyrics from a Bengali folk song for his latest song Genda Phool.

Genda Phool was released last week and features Jacqueline Fernandez in the video. The chorus of the song is in Bengali, which goes, "Boroloker bitilo, lomba lomba chul, Emon mathay bnedhe debo lal genda phool (The rich man's daughter has long hair, I want to tie a marigold on it)."

This line is from the Bengali song Borloker Bitilo, which was written by Ratan Kahar in 1970s. But Badshah did not give any credit to the original creator of the song.

Ratan Kahar, who lives in grim poverty, spoke to a Bengali website and said that he does not even have money to drag the matter to court.

"I wrote the song Boroloker Bitilo. The music, the words, everything is mine. Now, if people are dishonest, what can I do? I am extremely poor. Many people have taken my songs, but have not given me credit. They can't write their own songs. They used my songs as their own. I live in a hut. I write songs of the soil. I don't have the financial strength to drag them to court," he said.

Kahar also revealed that his song (Boroloker Bitilo) was adapted by Swapna Chakraborty in 1976. But he was not given any credit back then either.

Meanwhile, the internet has a lot to say on the matter. Several users have slammed Badshah for stealing the lyrics and many others have come out in full support of Ratan Kahar.

I remember his song from my childhood in Kharagpur, my sisters and I sang it often. Badahah needs to give open credit. Rather slimy, this plagiarism. But not surprising. Calmpanthi (@jomama_india) March 30, 2020

He has mentioned Bengali Folk as the original lyrics, but I don't know how that helps the original creator pic.twitter.com/qNzITAXfgb Nabeel Abdur Rahman (@Nabz464) March 30, 2020

What a shame. Plagiarists have to be dealt with firmly.. Mini Nair (@minicnair) March 31, 2020

Voice for ratan kahar must be raise against these machine adjusted music makers , cause they are destroying real artists . tush (@tushar_JAtt) March 31, 2020

Kindly give due credit and financial support to original sing creater RATAN kahar Bengali artist of the song Genda phool, u stole his catch phrase lines written by him n not given CREDIT that's not fair, u r insulting an artist being an artist.. apologize to him & help him Chandan Gaud (@Godchan7) March 31, 2020

Badshah's song Genda Phool has already been viewed over 65 million times on YouTube.

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