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Legendary music composer Ilaiyaraaja has initiated a lawsuit against Mythri Movie Makers over the unauthorised use of his song Karutha Machan in the Tamil blockbuster Dude, directed by Pradeep Ranganathan. The composition, originally created for Bharathiraja’s 1991 film Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naathu, was used without the composer’s permission in the movie’s wedding sequence.

This legal move marks another dispute between Ilaiyaraaja and the studio, following a previous court case concerning the Ajith Kumar film Good Bad Ugly, also produced by Mythri Movie Makers. In that instance, Ilaiyaraaja successfully secured a court order leading to the removal of his songs from Netflix during the film’s streaming run.

Ilaiyaraaja has filed legal proceedings in the United States a

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