Playback singer Kalpana alleges plagiarism

Mumbai, Sep 6 (UNI) Playback singer Kalpana has alleged that credits for three songs which she has sung, have been given to item girls Rakhi Sawant and Poonam Jhawar.

The songs are Rakhi Sawant's 'Super Girl', Poonam Jhawar's 'Tauba Tauba' and 'Pooh Kya Jalwa Hai.' Speaking to reporters today, Kalpana said, ''Even though I have no written agreement with anyone, the credits of the songs which I have sung have been given to Rakhi and Poonam. Rakhi has just hummed two lines of the song while the rest of it is mine.'' ''People will see the model on the screen, but I am the voice behind the scene. Please do not take away my identity,'' she pleaded. ''There can be other singers in my place tomorrow and even though I am an established name, I do not want anyone else to go through what I had to.'' Kalpana is a name to reckon with in Bhojpuri films as she has sung over 400 songs in hit films like ''Sasura Bada Paisa Wala'', Ekta Kapoor's ''Gabbar Singh'', Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini starrer ''Ganga'' and ''Gangotri'', Ajay Devgan's ''Dharti Kahe Pukar Ke'', Tinu Verma's ''Dhartiputra'', ''Niruhwa Riksha Wala'' and ''Chalat Musafir Moh Liya Re'' to name a few.

Kalpana has also launched her latest album, ''Maa-e-ri'', she claimed, ''It will be a sufi-rock or sufi-pop album and it does not fall in any particular genre as it has a blend of earthly and heavenly love.'' She made her playback debut in Bollywood with films like Raveena Tandon's ''Stumped'', ''Sandhya'' and ''88 Antop Hill'' among others.

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