Yeh Rishta Hain Pyaar Ka writers rebuke Shaheer Sheikh

The writers of Star Plus show Yeh Rishta Hain Pyaar Ka are miffed with the lead actor Shaheer Sheikh.

They wrote on social media, “NO, YOU DIDN'T, MR. SHAHEER SHEIKH. My name is Divy Nidhi Sharma, my wife, Aparajita Sharma and I are a writing duo. We write dialogues for several Televisions shows, currently on air are Kullfi Kumarr Bajewala, Nazar, Aladdin and Yeh rishtey Hain Pyar Ke. 

We have worked on Mr Sheikh's previous two shows as dialogue writers too, Kuch Rang Pyaar ke Aise Bhi and Dastaan-E-Mohabbat Salim Anarkali. Since I am a poet, most of the shows I am involved with the characters reciting my poetry, be it Zoya from Qubool Hai, Sahir from Humsafars, Sahir from Tanhaiyaan, Arnab from IPPK3, Omkara from Ishqbaaaz, Sikander Singh from Kullfi, Shehzade Salim from Daastan-E-Mohabbat and now Abir from Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar Ke.

Although we started writing dialogues for YRHPK from script episode 5, the creatives wanted to have poignant moments underlined through poetry in the initial episodes as well. So I wrote some pieces for initial four episodes, which Mr Sheikh claimed in an interview as his work. 

In the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter at all, neither to the star, nor to his fandom, but it matters to the poet. No one writes poetry for money, we write it because we have something to say, we write it because we enjoy the process and because we hope, maybe, just maybe, out of the millions who watch the show, one will say - "Wow! Who wrote that!"

Writers have always been under appreciated in our industry, all we have is our art and admiration of the tiniest percentage of viewers who can look beyond people on screen. And now, thanks to you, I don't even have that. I have written poetry for so many characters and so many wonderful starts like Surbhi Jyoti, Nakuul Mehta, Barun Sobti, Kunal Jaisingh, Mohit Mallik, Surbhi Chandna, Sisharth Nigam and many more...all of them have been professional and gracious enough to always acknowledge the presence of a writer. You are the only one who has tried to put his name over my work.

Despite working on three shows, I have never met you Mr. Sheikh (yes, these things happen in Television). You are a great actor, a star and you might even be a far better poet than I am, but you are NOT, is the person who wrote the poetry for Dastan-E-Mohabbat Salim Anarkali or Yeh Rishtey Hain Pyaar ke...

I will end this post with a couplet (which you can claim in the next interview as yours) :)

Shaheer huge allegation

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