American magazine ‘Rolling Stone India’ featured Shan Vincent De Paul and Dhee on its cover for their upcoming independent albums for AR Rahman’s music label, Maajja.
While Dhee has sung Enjoy Enjaami, Shan Vincent de Paul lent his vocals and wrote the English rap portions of Neeye Oli. Arivu wrote and sung Enjoy Enjaami and the Tamil portions of Neeye Oli.
Tamil filmmaker Pa Ranjith took to Twitter on 22 August to question why the ‘Rolling Stone India’ magazine cover had featured singers Dhee and Shan Vincent de Paul, and not Arivu. The magazine’s cover story, titled “Back to the Roots,” only had a small quote of Arivu.
“Arivu, the lyricist of Neeye oli and Singer as well as lyricist of Enjoy Enjaami has once again been invisiblised. Rolling Stone India and Maajja, is it difficult to understand that the lyrics of both the songs challenges this erasure of public acknowledgement?,” read Ranjith’s tweet.
Shan had earlier posted several screenshots of condemnable personal…