The makers of “KD: The Devil” have officially removed the song “Sarke Chunar Teri Sarke” and its Kannada version, “Sarse Ninna Seraga Sarse” from YouTube and other streaming platforms following intense legal pressure and a massive public outcry over its “obscene” content.
According to reports, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has issued a notice to the film’s makers regarding the matter. The Kannada film “KD: The Devil”, which will be dubbed in four languages, is set to release on April 30.
The video of the Hindi song, featuring Sanjay Dutt and Nora Fatehi, was released on YouTube two days ago and quickly went viral for its shock value over its sexually explicit lyrics and received severe backlash on social media.
The Hindi version of the song has been sung by Mangli while Raqeeb Alam has penned the lyrics. Arjun Janya has composed the music for the film.
While the Hindi and Kannada versions of the song have been taken down, the Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam versions continue to be available online.
As soon as the song was released on YouTube, users were quick to slam the makers over its vulgar lyrics and visuals. YouTube is now displaying the message, “Video unavailable. This video is private,” for the song.
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The song is set against a dance bar backdrop with Nora, clad in a ghagra choli, dancing around men. The song’s hook step involving her pallu went viral online.
Musician Armaan Malik and filmmaker Onir were amongst the many expressing their ire. “Wish I could unhear it,” said Malik.
“This showed up on my timeline and I had to replay it just to make sure I heard it right. Sad to see commercial songwriting hit a new low. I am genuinely at a loss of words,” he wrote on X.
Filmmaker Onir questioned why the song was not banned. “And the Censor board is busy with The naming of a film #GhooskhorPandat . Strange country we are becoming… opposing Valentines day celebration, interfaith marriage/ celebration while ok with this rubbish,” he wrote on X.
Many others on social media also called out the makers for lowering the standard of music.
“Sad to see how normalised cheap and vulgar lyrics have become in mainstream songs. Shock value isn’t creativity. Bollywood music once had poetry, emotion and depth – we deserve that standard again,” one user wrote on X.
“Today’s level of music is so cheap and disgusting,” wrote another.
One user on X said the song should be “banned with immediate effect”.
“This is so shameful, just for some money people write such songs, compose music for this nonsense and singers perform them. Even actors dance and perform on such disgusting content,” wrote a social media user.