This year has been a great year for Dr Zeus and Kanika Kapoor, but it seems the hit music makers have fallen out over the hit Bollywood track “Baby Doll” featuring Sunny Leone. Recently Dr Zeus was invited to talk about his releases of 2014 on BBC. Whilst discussing the release the host Suzi Mann questioned Dr Zeus about the production of the track and working with Dr Zeus knowing quite well that he was not credited as the producer.
Dr Zeus replied “To be honest, its quite a sad story on my side. To be honest with you it was called ‘Barbie Doll’ originally, but had to be changed due to copyright reasons I was asked to do this ‘Baby Doll’ song, it was originally called ‘Barbie Doll’ but they had to change it due to copyrights at the last minute.”
“I recorded all the vocals in my studio with Kanika, I produced that whole song and it was a case of the Meet Brothers turned around to me & said ‘We’re the producers of this song’. I said ‘What have you done’? Meet bros said to me that ‘We made the composition. It’s a law in India that if you’re a composer you’re credited as the producer, but to be honest its these kinda of things that are frustrating under Indian law, that does not make sense to me under English law of music.”
“I explained the Baby Doll situation to Shahrukh Khan and he promised me I would get credited & he would shoot a remix video with me. It still hasn’t happened, but to be fair he’s a very busy man & I can appricate that. And to be honest I cant complain, when they launched the track ‘Lovely’ Shahrukh called me & Kanika on stage”.
Dr Zeus ended it by saying “I still got appreciate what has happened for me, in this whole Baby Doll & Lovely scenario” Hopefully I feel I’m making a impact in Bollywood, touch wood. I have loads of tracks that are just me & I have some big backers out there”.
All seemed well until the host called Kanika Kapoor and talked about the release to which Kanika replied “I actually don’t know what you’re talking about, no I don’t think so, that’s not the right thing to say. The track was written composed & produced right in front of me in the Meet Brothers studio, in India, in Mumbai. It was written by Kumar and it was done in front of me, if they took some help on music production from Zeus, then that’s between them two. It was certainly not produced by Zeus, no no. You cannot credit somebody for the wrong thing. It was composed, the song, the melody everything, the lyrics and credit firstly goes to Kumar who wrote the song. What made the song was the lyrics that was written by Kumar. Kanika then goes on to sing a line from the song “Yeh Duniya, Yeh Duniya Pittal Di Yeh Duniya Pittal Di. The composition was done by Meet Brothers in front of me in their studios in Mumbai. We do respect Dr Zeus”.
So there you have it, Kanika and Dr Zeus are no longer friends, whilst there is probably more to the story we will probably find out later!