inspired!!!!

well last weekend I spend some time listening to some music and I found out that there is a new (hey I dont follow it as much I should) music director in hindi movies... Pritam. Well first of all I did hear the song Ya ali from gangster and I had heard the original arabic version too. I thought may be just one out of quite of few of his hits. well it seems that most of his hits song are actually copies all around the world. Apart from the usual middle eastern, Tarkan he did not even spare Korean, Indonesian and far east music.

Here

is a site which lists his hit songs and the original version of the same

The issue here is can we just say it is just inspired from another artist or just plagiarism. Karan Thapar had a segment on this issue and he picked two music directors- Anu Mallik and Pritam (two poster boys for music plagiarism). It is a must watch... Pritam seems to think that getting the tune is just 15% of the job and the difficult part is trying to re-do so to speak. Well if the bollywood movie industry is so much against video piracy.. hmmm should I go further.

Well just in case Pritam does accidentally bump into this blog.. I do agree that sometime people get inspired but there is definitely a clear difference between inspired and copying. Not making sense here is an example.. this is an slightly old song of Ofra Haza (a wonderful Israeli singer)


And this is a Deva's Tamil song which has similar begining



I think although it has a similar beginning the rest of the song is different. May be again may be this is called inspired. (For the record Deva is also known to steal songs completely in many occasions)

Now what about "the not so inspired but rather copied" here is a song from the Korean soap opera




And this is Pritam's Peheli Nazar from the movie Race .. and yeah if you look at the time line when the songs came you can figure who copied whom :)




It is so interesting some years ago there was a similar claim in particle physics. A group from Kumaon University did a direct copy of Renata Kallosh paper word by word and got is published in some journal. Well after people figured it out the axe fell on the graduate student not on his advisor. More info

here