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Some SERIOUS questions as this app looks like it is a commercial app created to earn money by playing tracks of the legendary musicians WITHOUT TAKING THEIR PERMISSION violating the legal, moral and ethical values.

1. Idea for this app is stolen from 8 prahar concert

2. Why we have to pay money when the SAME classical music is available freely on YouTube and other platforms? Just bcuz is playing under the app.

3. Is legal permission taken from the musicians or their heirs to play their tracks as many musicians are no more.

4. Are they honestly giving any money back to musicians by playing tracks as a profit share. Pls make the info abt "no. of paid users and % money paid to musicians" public.

5. India being a country of 1300 million people, only 5000+ has downloaded the app means Indians have totally rejected this app.

6. Why non of musicians is promoting this app? something is drastically wrong with this app.

7. Due to corona, music industry & musicians all over the world are promoting their music thr their own channels hence apps like this are not required.

I don't know about the stolen idea but they have taken artists' permission. From The Hindu's article:

> The app features artistes such as Bhimsen Joshi, Satyasheel Deshpande, Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Anuradha Kuber and Anupama Bhagwat. “We reached out to artistes who provided us with exclusive songs, some from private baithaks,” he says. Apart from that, he has also reached out to lesser-known artistes. “Most existing platforms chase established artistes, but there is no other platform apart from Youtube and Facebook for these yet new talents to be discovered.”

You don't have to necessarily pay money. It's a subscription app and there's a free version that you can enjoy with limited songs.

>India being a country of 1300 million people, only 5000+ has downloaded the app means Indians have totally rejected this app.

This is quite an absurd conclusion.

>Why non of musicians is promoting this app? something is drastically wrong with this app.

There's nothing wrong or shady about this product. Marico boss Harsh Mariwala had recommended this app to someone on Twitter. Apart from that, in my opinion, Indian classical music is nothing like your mainstream pop music where you'd expect the singer to jump and promote their app on instagram or tiktok. Classical music is much more than money or fame.

Please do visit National Cultural Audiovisual Archives's website " http://ncaa.gov.in/repository " for 10000+ hrs of unpublished, non-commercial Indian Classical Music recordings rather than paying for this commercial PAID app.

Twitter handle for daily videos - @NCAA_PMU

oh wow thanks for this link.

8. Please do visit National Cultural Audiovisual Archives's website " http://ncaa.gov.in/repository " for 10000+ hrs of unpublished, non-commercial Indian Classical Music recordings rather than paying for this commercial PAID app.

Twitter handle for daily videos - @NCAA_PMU

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