Javed Akhtar Shocked To Find His Name On 'PM Narendra Modi' Credits
Veteran lyricist Javed Akhtar on Friday said he has not written any song for Vivek Oberoi-starrer "PM Narendra Modi" and he is shocked to find his name in the credits of the film's trailer.
Javed
Akhtar
gets
angry
on
PM
Modi
Biopic
makers
over
song
credit
controversy;
Here's
why
|FilmiBeat
Veteran
lyricist
Javed
Akhtar
on
Friday
said
he
has
not
written
any
song
for
Vivek
Oberoi-starrer
"PM
Narendra
Modi"
and
he
is
shocked
to
find
his
name
in
the
credits
of
the
film's
trailer.
The
74-year-old
writer
shared
a
photo
of
the
credits,
where
his
name
appears
alongside
other
lyricists
Prasoon
Joshi,
Sameer,
Abhendra
Kumar
Upadhyay,
Sardaraa,Parry
G
and
Lavraj.
"(I)
am
shocked
to
find
my
name
on
the
poster
of
this
film.
Have
not
written
any
songs
for
it!"
Akhtar
wrote
on
the
microblogging
site.
His
post
was
retweeted
by
his
wife,
veteran
actor
Shabana
Azmi.
The
first
trailer
of
the
Omung
Kumar-directed
biopic
of
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi,
featuring
Oberoi
in
the
lead,
released
on
Wednesday.