T-Series apologises to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) for uploading Atif Aslam song on official YouTube channel

T-Series uploaded the Pakistani singer, Atif Aslam version of “Kinna Sona” on its YouTube channel on Monday, despite Federation of Western India Cine Employees’ (FWICE) demand of banning Pakistani artistes in India. However, they removed the video from their YouTube channel on Wednesday and apologized to Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray.

As soon as netizens saw the video of Pakistani singer, they raised their voice to take down the song of Atif Aslam and in no time, #TakeDownAtifAslamSong started trending on Twitter.
The uploading of Atif Aslam song on T-Series did not go well for Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS). MNS Cinema Wing president Ameya Khopkar tweeted, “WARNING TO TSERIES Take down Pakistani singer Atif-Aslam song from your TSeries youtube channel immediately else we will take a major action against @TSeries. #TakeDownAtifAslamSong @itsbhushankumar @mnsadhikrut @rajupatilmanase.”

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To this, T-Series issued an apology and issued a letter to them which stated. “It has been brought to our notice that the said song has been sung by Atif Aslam and this song was put up on the YouTube channel of T-Series by one of our employees from the promotion team. He was unaware of his action and erred while putting up the song.”

The music label added, “We condemn our mistake and apologise for the same. We assure you that henceforth we will neither release, nor promote the song on any platform of T-Series. Meanwhile, we are removing the said song from our YouTube channel.”
“We also assure you that henceforth we will not be releasing or promoting work by any Pakistani artistes,” the letter from the record label concluded.

Both the original song, composed by Meet Bros, and Atif Aslam’s version were featured in the film ‘Marjaavan’, starring Sidharth Malhotra and Tara Sutaria.
T-Series has also been involved in a controversy with singer Sonu Nigam, who has accused the music label of treating outsiders unfavorably.