Music directors not respected enough these days, says Pritam

Pritam believes music composers today are neither given moral rights of their work nor the respect they deserve.

The music director said the quality of the music scene in the Hindi film industry is taking a hit as the artistes do not enjoy the kind of power they used to earlier.

"You need to protect music directors. The quality is going down because you're not glamorising the respect we should get.

"Earlier a composer and a lyricist had power. Today you'll become a slave under music companies if you don't create a brand," Pritam told PTI.

The composer said many music directors are not taking composing seriously as singing is "a more lucrative option".

"If you sing, you can do shows which has a lot of money. Due to this, creativity is suffering. You don't have your performing rights or royalty.

"For a hit song you'll get a buy-out and a newcomer would get very less money and on top of that you don't even get moral rights - your name doesn't even appear anywhere."