SunstarTV Bureau: After Israeli gymnast, Artem Dolgopyat bagged Israel’s second gold medal in the Olympics, netizens started flooding Twitter with tweets on singer, music composer Anu Malik. Why? You might ask. After Dolgopyat won the gold medal, Israel’s national anthem, ‘Hatikvah,’ was played in Tokyo and the Israeli flag was raised in honour of the gymnast.
After Dolgopyat’s win, as is customary at the Olympics, the Israeli flag was raised high and the national anthem, called Hatikvah, was blared from the speakers inside the arena. Indian Twitter was quick to notice that Malik plagiarized the Israeli national anthem’s music for his song Mera Mulk Mera Desh from Ajay Devgn’s 1996 film Diljale.
Malik has a reputation for copying songs from international artistes and musicians for his Bollywood films. Indian social media users soon flooded the internet with memes and jokes aimed at Malik.
“So, Anu Malik didn’t spare even Israeli national anthem while copying tune for Diljale’s Mera Mulk Mera Desh in 1996. Thanks to the internet we now know this,” tweeted one person. “Anu Malik copying the national anthem of a country to make a Bollywood song is so Anu Malik!,” tweeted another.
