Music maestro Ilaiyaraaja has sent the producers of Rajinikanth starrer Coolie a legal notice for using his song without his permission. The film is being directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj.
The notice states, “Our client is shocked, surprised and concerned to notice that you have, without obtaining the authorisation and permission, exploited the musical work/song of our client’s ‘Disco disco’ portion of the Vaa vaa pakkam vaa song from the Tamil film Thanga Magan and used the portion of the song which would also amount to distorted version of the musical work, in Coolie without obtaining proper consent/permission of or payment of royalty fee to our client for the usage of the original/adapted/modified/altered version.”
