As part of the outrage over the remixed version of cult Sambalpuri folk song Rangabati produced by Coke Studio-MTV, a police complaint was filed against singers Sona Mohapatra and Ruturaj Mohanty in Sambalpur on Wednesday.
The Sambalpur district vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), lodged the written complaint against Sona and Ruturaj at the Town police station accusing them of tampering with the original version of the extremely popular song.
Earlier, the lyricist Mitrabhanu Gauntia and music director Prabhudatta Pradhan of the original version of Rangabati had filed a defamation suit for Rs 1 crore and served legal notices on Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages Pvt ltd, Hindustan Coca Cola Holdings Pvt ltd, Viacom 18 Media Pvt ltd, composer Ram Sampath and singers Sona Mohapatra and Ruturaj Mohanty for copyright violation."Not only have they not taken permission from us, they have made mincemeat of the original song," Gauntia had said.