Updated On: 25 March, 2019 08:46 AM IST | | Agencies
PM Narendra Modi biopic producer says he used lyricist's name on poster since he employed his track in movie following discussion with music label

Oberoi as Modi in film
Sandip Ssingh, producer of the upcoming film PM Narendra Modi, which is embroiled in a controversy after lyricist Javed Akhtar expressed shock over the inclusion of his name on the film's poster, clarified yesterday that he was given the approval from T-series's Bhushan Kumar.
Ssingh stated that the veteran's name was used on the poster since the makers have used one of his old songs in the Vivek Oberoi-starrer. "I wanted to keep one of his [Akhtar] songs, Ishwar Allah, from 1947: Earth, in the film. I spoke to Bhushan Kumar ji, and he agreed," Ssingh said, further suggesting that it is the music label that must inform an artiste of such a development. "Our work is to make a film. We have done that."