AR Rahman opened up recently about the trend of remixing old songs in the film industry and said that it isn’t right to reimagine other people’s work without permission. The music composer also expressed his concerns over the use of AI in creating music and called it an ‘even bigger evil’.

In an interview with The Week, Rahman said, “You can't take a song from a movie and use it in another movie six years later, saying you are reimagining it. You can’t reimagine people’s work without their permission. You could post it on Instagram, but certainly not make it mainstream."

Speaking about AI generated music, the ace composer added, “An even bigger evil is people misusing AI and not paying the composer even if they are borrowing his style. We need to bell this cat because it could lead to major ethical issues. People could lose jobs.”

He recently served as the music composer for the Dhanush directorial Raayan and Imtiaz Ali’s Amar Singh Chamkila.