The Dewarists in legal tangle

The popular TV series on musicians, The Dewarists, has been dragged to court by writer-musician Manish Kumar for alleged copyright violation. Kumar has filed a petition with the Delhi High Court against host channel Star India alleging that he had conceptualised a similar TV programme.

The popular TV series on musicians, The Dewarists, has been dragged to court by writer-musician Manish Kumar for alleged copyright violation. Kumar has filed a petition with the Delhi High Court against host channel Star India alleging that he had conceptualised a similar TV programme. “The matter is subjudice,” says a spokesperson for the channel.

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The television series which aims at encouraging individuals to do what they believe in, became popular after the video by Vishal Dadlani, Shekhar Ravjiani and Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Imogen Heap.

"The trio worked on a composition based on Rabindranath Tagore's Where The Mind is Without Fear, in which Heap introduced the audience to a variety of instruments, (some of which were played and recorded in a shop for musical instruments in Samode), and a group of schoolchildren sung the chorus. There were also distinct influences of a village band and local nagara players," reports Zaira Arslan of Indian Express.

They shot this video in the luxurious Samode Palace in Rajasthan.