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The Music Director of the cult romantic Hindi movie ‘Maine Pyar Kiya’; Raam Lakshman, composed the easy on the ear tune of the super hit song Aate Jaate with absolute panache and conviction in 1989. Little did he know that Stevie Wonder would travel back in time to 1984 and bald-facedly copy his original piece of work for his song ‘I Just Called to Say I Love You’; which would eventually go on to become one of the most popular and top grossing songs in history! Yes and he isn’t the first Music Director of the acclaimed Indian Film Industry to have suffered at the hands of such audacious plagiarism by singers and composers who stole their tunes ahead of time even before it was compiled! Pun Intended!
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. – William Ralph Inge
Original-Music for Bollywood is more often than not an oxymoron just as Music Business is too. Music should be a form of veneration and devotion instead of a murky Trade. But sorry to say there is hardly any Music director who hasn’t walked through the hallways of plagiarism. Yes Bollywood plagiarismneeds no introduction. It infact is as popular as the stars themselves; an Open Secret! It is an art exclusively and competently mastered by the directors; story writers and the talented original music directors. Being one of the largest Film Industry in the world; what could be the raison d’être behind Bollywood’s borrowed creativity?
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Yup that is a question indeed.
Indeed..!
Dear Nabanita, I too wondered why such copying but when I asked one, he told me that hardly anyone has heard such great tune in India then by making it popular through Hindi lyrics it goes to one and all. There are directors today who straightaway lift tunes from Korean songs and other places too. But I guess we all do that. Amitabh does it from Dilipsaab and he does it from K L Saigal. I am not justifying anyone or anything here but we all want to emulate Gandhiji, Jesus or Krsna in our behavior and words too. We too want to copy. I think when we copy good stuff it really does not matter, unless and until they are actually having ulterior motives of making loads of money from copyrights. God bless you. Keep on writing.
I agree only a little if not at all. In some cases, like u said about the song in Maine pyaar kiya-that song is one of my favorites and i'm sure a fav of millions of indians worldwide. Now, most indians atleast dnt listen to english/western music, or atleast didnt do it when Maine pyaar kiya released 🙂 so if the music was never copied, we indians would never even have heard of this tune!! Plus, the antras/stanzas of the hindi song were also well written and not taken from the stivie's song. And the singer added his magic too(fabulous Balasubhramanyam). This is just an example. I feel in every such case, copying/getting inspired is fine as long as its done beautifully and brings the niche/exclusive/culturally exclusive music to the masses.
It is not just in music but movies too, ideas stolen from english movies.. a few recent hit films are a rip of english movies , even the dialogues are same ..
I mean if hollywood etc can make original scripts come out with new ideas why not our directors etc, they wait for a movie to come out then quickly make the same in hindi.. quiet sad
Bikram's
You remember the song Itna na mujse tu pyar badha? That super hit was lifted from Mozart's symphony played slowly…
I do not recall Farida ji but will surely listen to it….
Indeed Bikramjit..!!
Yes that could be another way to look at it but the problem with our industry is that they deny they had any idea about it and claim that its original..
Yes Krishna the fact is the motive is not right; sometimes they refuse to accept that their works are actually copied from others!
I remember the song Farida mentions. And I had no idea.
Very well written Naba 🙂
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