Depressed by misspelt name,Dev D singer lands in hospital

It was one of Raina’s friends who informed him that his name had been misspelt as Toshi on many music websites,although the singer Toshi has nothing to do with the erroneous listings.

“When my cousin and I saw the websites we were shocked to see that many prominent websites had made the same mistake. While most of them had only misspelt my name,one famous website had displayed my name as Toshi Sabri,” said Raina who added that this was a cruel way of snatching the credit from someone who had got his due after several years of hard work.

“For over two decades I have been researching music and for the past six years I have been struggling in Mumbai. My mother passed away due to cancer last year and I was yet to overcome the trauma when I suffered this blow,” he added.

Raina and his family alleged that owing to the mix-up by the websites,Raina’s career has been badly affected as several shows and live concerts that should have ideally come to him are likely to have gone to Toshi.

Viraaj Jaswal,Raina’s cousin and manager said,“While we have painstakingly gone through all the websites,only one which has mentioned Toshi’s name has a postal address displayed on it. We have sent a notice to the address seeking Rs 2 crore as compensation for the mental and physical trauma that they have caused us. Raina has not been able to sleep ever since he discovered all this. When we realised that symptoms of his depression have dangerously increased we decided to get him hospitalised.”

Dr Ashish Tiwari,spokesperson of Bombay Hospital said that Raina was admitted to the hospital after he complained of restlessness and uneasiness. “He seems to have suffered a shock. We made him take some tests and the results are due on Wednesday ,” he said.