The talks are that Nora Fatehi’s Pachtaoge female version a copy of Beyonce’s “Mine” & Zayn Malik’s “Pillow Talk.” The female version of “Pachtaoge” featuring Nora Fatehi was released recently. Soon after it went online, an anonymous Instagram account alleged that the video was a copy of Beyonce’s “Mine” and Zayn Malik’s “Pillow talk”, but director Rajit Dev says that though they took inspiration from the videos by the pop stars, their DOP lighting, framing, and choreography is original.
Reacting to the claims, Rajit, who made his directorial debut with the song, said, “While creating this with Nora we got inspirations from Beyonce, Zayn Malik, Madonna, Billie Eilish and many more. We wanted to emulate their work aesthetics and bring those visuals to life in our music videos too. The idea of creating a white outfit was to depict purity and divinity. We loved what Beyonce did with her dancers in one of her videos; and we brought that together with our idea of the white outfit. It helped us tell the story better. However, our DOP lighting, framing, and choreography are original which is something to be celebrated.”
“Pachtaoge” original track was released last year and featured Vicky Kaushal and Nora. However, the new video was solely dependent on the “Street Dancer 3D” actress’s emotions. And was a new format for the Indian audience. Nora dons two different outfits for the video as well. First, a beautiful white gown, which depicts the innocence and purity with which a girl enters into a relationship, then a sheer black outfit, which portrays anger, hatred, and disappointment after she faces betrayal.
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Rajit, a choreographer by profession, admitted that the kind of work international artists do is something to take inspiration from as it helps in upping the game of the Indian music video space.
Addressing the claims, Rajit lastly said, instead of accusing and blaming someone and trying to pull them down. People should encourage and push each other to do better work. He said, “I want people to encourage other people’s work and not pull them down. Look at the situation in 2020 which is going, there’s a pandemic, people are at home without jobs, there’s so much negativity around. If we don’t support each other, how will an artist take a risk and achieve something in life.”
“We as artist look up to every artist who inspires us in many ways. I want to take risks and explore and make more videos in that genre and will continue to do so. People need to change their attitude and stop spreading hate and negativity. Support and spread love,” he signed off.
Nora Fatehi’s Pachtaoge female version has already received over 10 million views on YouTube. The video is being appreciated by the audience for the new concept. It introduced and many went on to praise the visual effects and background too. Sung by Asees Kaur, the song is produced by T-Series.
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