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Taaren hain baraati [Film: Virasat (1997)]
<TC> |
| Inspired from Simon and Garfunkel's classic 'El condor
pasa'. |
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Listen to Taaren hain |
El condor pasa |
One of the most creative inspirations by
Anu Malik, the hard work he has put in really shows!
El
condor pasa is an 18th century Peruvian folk melody. Around 1916, Peruvian composer Daniel Alomias Robles notated this popular traditional melody and used it as the basis for an instrumental suite.
The 'If I could' words are by Paul Simon!
Also listen to
One of the traditional Peruvian version of
El
condor pasa (by Los Calchakis). And listen to another version of
this original by Anu Malik, in Jaanam (Refer listing no. 39 in this
page) |
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Mera piya ghar aaya [Film: Yaarana]
<TC> |
| Ripped off from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's
'Mera piya ghar'.
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| Plagiarism at its worst!
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Loye loye [Film: Yaaraana]
<TC> |
| Ditto from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's song
'loye loye' |
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| Again, plagiarism at its worst! |
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Jawani Diwani [Film:
Chamatkar] <TC> |
| Lifted straight off Boney M's 1979 number
'Bahama Mama' from their
album 'Oceans of Fantasy'.
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| Listen to
Jawani
Diwani | Bahama
Mama
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| 'Bahama Mama' is a catchy disco track about Bahama Mama who has six daughters whom she can't get
married. It was released as the second single back-to-back with 'I'm Born Again' and also released in an extended version on the 12" single.
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O Meri Neend Churane Wale [Film: Chamatkar]
<TC> |
| From Dr Hook's 'When you're in love with a beautiful Woman'
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O mere
neend churane waale | When
you are in love... |
| Lifted. Also listen to Bappi Lahiri's version
of the same original - Bappi Lahiri page, 4th listing.
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Dole Dil Dole [Film: Baazi]
<TC> |
| Ditto from the Come September tune! |
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| Pathetic! |
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Jaane mujhe kya hua [Film:
Baazi]
<TC> |
| From Beethoven's Fur Elise! Again!!!!
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| Even more
pathetic! |
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Dheere dheera aap mere [Film: Baazi]
<TC> |
| From Mehdi Hassan's ghazal Rafta
rafta! |
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Listen to
Dheere
dheere | Rafta
rafta |
| Hmmm...that's the
third lift in this movie! |
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Aisa zakhm diya hai [Film: Akele hum akele
tum]
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| The opening lifted from Deep purple's Sweet child in time |
| Listen to
Aisa zakhm diya hai |
Child in time |
| Ditto! Rest of the tune is
original and is a very good tune, at that! The Deep Purple song came out
in 1970 and was part of the album 'Deep Purple in Rock' |
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Dil mera churaya kyon [Film: Akele hum akele tum]
<TC> |
| From Wham's Last Christmas!
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Listen to Dil
mera | Last
Christhmas
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| Bah, why did he have to copy such a
popular number?
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Raja ko Rani se Pyar ho gaya [Film: Akele Hum Akele Tum]
<TC> |
| From the Love theme - Godfather by Nino
Rota! |
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Listen to Raja
ko | Godfather
theme |
Ditto! Good inspiration, though! Also
listen to Sanjeev Darshan's version of the same original - Hindi-Others
page, 26th item! An interesting trivia rejoinder: One of
this site's visitors, CB, wrote in asking if I thought the Godfather
love theme sounds similar to Dimitri Tiomkin's Academy Award winning
score for 'High Noon' (the song was also called 'Do not forsake me...').
When I heard Dimitri's number, I felt it sure did have traces of Nino's
score....or the other way round, since Nino's Godfather score came in
1972 while High Noon came in 1951!. Incidentally CB remembered such a
similarity after listening to the Aashiq number! Try listening to the
High Noon number and compare it with Akele hum akele tum's 'Raja ko rani
se pyaar ho gaya'....the opening is very much there but with subtle
differences and even the part which goes 'dil jigar dono ghayal...'!
Surprising! Interestingly, both Dimitri Tiomkin and Nino Rota have won
Academy awards for their respective works in High Noon and The
Godfather. Its a different story that the Academy realized that some of the music for
The Godfather was recycled from an Italian movie ('Fortunella') that
Nino had scored some time back and declared it ineligible in its category and withdrew the nomination. However, two years later, Rota was nominated in the same category for his work on "The Godfather: Part II," and this time he won the
Oscar (but had to be content by sharing it co-composer, Carmine Coppola,
father of director Francis Ford Coppola - and grand dad of actor
Nicholas Cage!!)
Listen to
Do
not forsake me (High Noon) |
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Tu waaqif nahi [Film: Khiladiyon ka
khiladi]
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| From Fernando by Abba.
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Tu waaqif
nahi | Fernando |
| There are definite shades of Fernando in
the Hindi version but good improvisation on Anu's part.
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13 |
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In the night [Film: Khiladiyon ka
khiladi]
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| From Laura Branighan's 'Self Control'
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| Yup, copied!
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Sun sun sun barsat ki dhun [Film: Sir]
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| Lifted from Jose Feliciano's 'Listen to the falling rain' (1972)!
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| Listen to
Sun
sun sun |
Listen
to the falling rain |
| Direct lift! Also listen to R D Burman's
interpretation of the same original - R D Burman page, item 24.
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Ladna Jhagadna [Film: Duplicate]
<TC> |
| From Ella Fitzgerald's
'A-tisket A-tasket'!
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Listen to Ladna jhagadna |
A
tisket A tasket
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| Its really a nursery
rhyme, 'A-Tisket, A-Tasket' made popular by
Ella Fitzerald, in 1938. The source is supposedly a 19th
century nursery rhyme. Anu Malik adds a layer of 60s Hindi
film sound in the humming, but stays largely faithful to the
main tune of the rhyme. Also refer to Salil Chaudhry's
version of the same original - No. 7 in the page for
Salil Chaudhry.
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Pehla Pehla pyar layi hoon [Film:
Maalamaal]
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| From Beethoven's Fur Elise!
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| Yet to
hear the Maalamaal song!
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Tu woh tu hai [Film: Beqaabu]
<TC> |
| Ditto from the theme of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.
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| Ugh! |
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Sandese Aate Hain [Film: Border]
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| Opening portion inspired from 'With A little help From my friends'
by Beatles.
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| Found this mention in a
Top 50 copied songs list in Mid Day magazine. It does sound similar, but
since the rest of the song is completely different, we could
set this aside as a coincidence!
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20 |
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O Main Tera Tum Mere [Film: Ram
Shastra]
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| Lifted off 'More than I can
say' by The Crickets, made popular by Leo Sayer!
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| Listen to
O main tera
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More than I can say
(Leo
Sayer's version) |
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Trivia: 'More than I can say' was released first as part of the 1960
Crickets album, 'In style with Crickets'. The Crickets were formed in
1957 and have influenced nearly every major rock performer in the US.
The Beatles too. Even the name 'The Beatles' is inspired by 'The
Crickets'! |
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Neela Duppata [Film:
Hamesha]
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| Beats copied from Michael Jackson's 'They Don't really care about us'
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| Yup, lifted! Tune is a bit original,
though!
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Arre Baba [Film: Auzaar]
<TC> |
| From Los del rio's Macarena! |
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| Downright silly copying! |
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Dil De De Dena [Film: Dhaal]
<TC> |
| From Los del rio's Macarena!
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| :-)))) |
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Yeh kaali kaali aankhen [Film: Baazigar]
<TC> |
| Inspired by Dean Martin's 'The man who plays the
mandolino'!
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| Listen to
Yeh kaali
kaali | The
man who plays the mandolino |
Surely inspired! The Chabili number
'Lehron
pe lehar' also is inspired from the same Dean Martin number! Check out
the Hindi Others section - 1st entry!
Also, given how big a success the
song was, here's a question - do you remember the 'entire'
song? When I say entire, specifically, I mean, the prelude
to the main song - the way it opens. If you do remember so
much of the song - the way it starts with the female chorus
going 'Oh Oh O O Oh...', then this update is bound to take
you by complete surprise! Listen to the track titled
'Because of you' by a famous 80 girl band called
Cover Girls. This is a
1988 number from their album titled, Show Me. Its immaterial
how the actual song goes, but the opening, which includes
the female humming and the gradual musical build-up that
follows, is all entirely lifted note-to-note! In fact, for
the first 52 seconds you'd swear that you're listening to
the Baazigar track!
Listen to
Because of you |
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What is love? [Film: Gentleman]
<TC>
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From Haddaway's 'What is love'! |
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| Really? |
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Hai mera dil [Film: Josh]
<TC>
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| A combination of Gypsy Kings' number
'Djobi Djoba' and Brian
Hyland's 'Sealed with a kiss'!!
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Listen to Hai mera dil |
Djobi
djuba | Sealed
with a kiss
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| The beginning of the tune of surely
inspired by the Gypsy Kings' number! The inside portions are ripped from
Brian Hyland's Sealed with a kiss!
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Is tarah aashiqui ka [Film:
Imtihaan]
<TC>
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| Inspired by the oldie classic 'Autumn Leaves'!
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Listen to
Is
tarah aashiqui ka | Autumn
leaves |
| I've heard Nat King Cole's version of
Autumn Leaves, however I could only manage Andy Williams' version, which
is equally good! Anu has of course worked pretty well on the hindi
version of the tune!
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Trivia: This
now-considered-as-a-jazz-standard was first sung under the
title, Les feuilles mortes (Dead Leaves) by French
singer/actor Yves Montand in 1945, with lyrics by Jacques
Prévert, in Marcel Carné's film Les Portes de la Nuit. The
song was composed by the Hungarian composer Joseph Cosma
(1905-69) and the lyrics were by the French poet Jacques
Prévert (1900-77). The English lyrics, (Autumn Leaves) were
written in 1947 by the American songwriter Johnny Mercer and
the first official English version was sung by....nay, not
Cole, by one of France's greatest singers, Édith Piaf!
Cole's version, incidentally, was in 1956, over the title
sequence of the Joan Crawford starrer, Autumn Leaves!
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Ek shararat hone ko hai [Film: Duplicate]
<TC>
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| Inspired by Laura Allen's 'Slip and Slide'
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| Listen to
Ek
shararat | Slip
and slide |
| Anu bhai owes quite a lot to Laura for his hindi
number!
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Neend churayi meri kisne o sanam [Film:
Ishq (1997)]
<TC>
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| Lifted from 'Sending all my love',
by the band 'Linear' in 1990. |
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Neend
churayi meri | Sending
all my love |
| Blatant lift!
Listen to Rajesh Roshan's 1992 adaptation of the same
original - Rajesh Roshan page, No. 39! |
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I was made for loving you [Film: Jaanam
Samjha Karo]
<TC>
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| Inspired by KISS's 'I was made for loving you'!
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| Listen to
I
was made for loving you (JSK) |
I
was made for loving you (KISS) |
| The tune and words 'I was made for loving you'
has been lifted directly. But the rest of the song has been done pretty
well by Anu Malik.
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32 |
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Love hua [Film: Jaanam Samjha
Karo]
<TC>
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| Inspired by the 70s hit, 'Angelo' by Brotherhood of Man!
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| Listen to
Love hua |
Angelo
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| Inspired, but pretty good work by Anu
Malik! |
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34 |
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Kaise kahoon kaise ho tum [Film:
Ishq]
<TC>
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| Prelude lifted from 'Right beside you' by Sophie B Hawkins.
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| Listen to
Kaise kahoon |
Right
beside you
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| The Ishq number is sort of based on the tune of
the prelude and that prelude is lifted!
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35 |
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Aisa milan [Film: Hamesha (1996) ]
<TC>
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| Lifted from the tune by Andrew Lloyd Webber, 'The Phantom of the
Opera' from the musical of the same name! |
| Listen to
Aisa milan
| The
phantom of the opera |
| Lifted straight!
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Hum to dil se [Film: Josh]
<TC>
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| Lifted from
Vangelis' 'Conquest of paradise'!
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| Listen to
Hum to dil se
| Conquest
of paradise
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| Also lifted by Rajesh Roshan as an interlude in
Koyla's 'Badan juda' (Rajesh Roshan page, No. 26) |
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Teri Chahat Ke siva [Film: Jaanam (1993)]
<TC>
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| Lifted from Simon and Garfunkel's 'El condor
pasa'!
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Listen to
Teri
chahat ke siva | If
I could (El condor pasa)
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Also refer to another lift of the same original by Anu Malik (First
listing in this page!)
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38 |
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Hamesha Title Song - Hum aur tum [Film:
Hamesha (1996)]
<TC>
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| Lifted from Josef Ivanovici's 'Anniversary Waltz'.
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Listen to
Hamesha Title Song (Hum aur
tum) | Anniversary Waltz (Instrumental) |
Anniversary Waltz - With vocals by Al Jolson |
| Anu Malik has lifted enough for the Saif Ali
Khan-Kajol starrer Hamesha (1996) - The
rhythm of 'neela duppatta' lifted off Michael Jackson's 'They don't really care about us' and
'Aisa milan kal ho na ho' lifted off Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera! Now here's the third...the title song. Its a waltz scene in the movie and Anu Malik has appropriately lifted a classic waltz. The original is called 'Anniversary Song' (1845-1902) - also called 'Anniversary Waltz' or 'Blue Danube Waltz', composed by Romanian composer Josef
Ivanovici, a contemporary of Austrian composer/conductor Johann Strauss Jr. It was the first and second part of Ivanovici's 'Waves of the Danube' waltz suite. In 1946, singer Al Jolson recorded a vocal version of this track and it was subsequently covered by a lot of people including Guy Lombardo, Dean Martin and so on.
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Oh I love you daddy (title song) [Film: Akele hum akele
tum]
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| Partly inspired by the Jim Reeves number 'But you love me daddy'
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| Listen to
Akele hum akele tum (Oh I love you daddy) |
But you love me daddy (Jim Reeves)
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| The Jim Reeves number was released in
1959, with words and music by Kathryn Twitty.
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Tumko sirf tumko [Film: Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi (2001)] <TC> |
| Inspired by the Beatles track, 'Norwegian Wood'
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| Listen to
Tumo sirf tumko |
Norwegian Wood
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| The Beatles track was part of their 1965
album Rubber Soul. Also check out RDB's use of the same track in the RDB
Page, entry no. 30. Talking about Anu Malik's version, a more knowledgeable person like George Thomas (he of the
georgethomas blog fame!) says, "...different metre (like 'love
story'/'jeevan ke din')...the distinctive chord change (if in the key of D, it would be the shift to C and through a passing G back to D) is a dead giveaway...".
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Bichoo bichoo [Film: Chamatkar (1992)] <TC> |
| Lifted from the 60s hit 'I will follow him' by Little Peggy March.
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| Listen to
Bichoo bichoo |
I
will follow him (Little Peggy March) |
'I will follow him' is originally by
Petula Clark, who first sang it in French under the name 'Chariot' in
the early 50s/ 60s. She later did an English version with the title, 'I
will follow him' in 1962. So where does Little Peggy March come into the
picture? RCA producers Hugo Peretti and Luigi Creatore ("Hugo and Luigi"), best known today for their work with Sam Cooke, found
Clark's song and got March to record the number in a new version with simpler lyrics, now known as "I Will Follow
Him". Clark's original recording was a slow, moody, soulful piece, with the singer seeking the depths of the song's meaning, all without the doo wop-style
"did-ip, da did-ip, da did-ip" chorus. It sounded like the work of a woman. March's recording, by contrast, picked up the tempo, added a doo wop-style male chorus and a pulsing arrangement, with prominent drums and chorus, and her breathy, breathless reading of the lyrics. It sounded like the work of a passionate girl, and it defined
a certain girl-group sound. March is still known by this song, despite
many other successive albums!
Listen to
Chariot
(Petula Clark) |
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Trivia note on Little Peggy March:
Little Peggy March, at 15, only ever had one big hit during her decade with RCA Records, but that song, "I Will Follow Him," spent three weeks at the number one spot on the charts and even topped the R&B charts for a week as well. It pretty well helped define the early girl-group
sound. Her subsequent hits, "I Wish I Were a Princess" (which was featured prominently in John Waters' period romp Hairspray) and "Hello Heartache, Goodbye Love," scored much lower in the Top 40. RCA continued to record March for ten years, right into the early '70s, but she never scored an American hit of any consequence after early 1964. By contrast, in Europe, she was a popular recording artist for many years and scored several major hits, especially in Germany, where she moved in 1969.
Margaret Battavio, aka Little Peggy March, had dreamt of a singing career for most of her young life, and had been winning talent contests as a young girl. She was signed to RCA in 1962 at age 14, and made her debut that year with a cover of the song "Little Me," taken from a Sid Caesar Broadway hit, which vanished without a trace. Her second single was to ensure her place in the pop music reference books,
however!
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Tere dar par sanam [Film: Phir teri kahani yaad aayi (1993)]
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| Prelude lifted from the theme track of the 1971 movie 'Summer of
42', composed by Michel Legrand.
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| Listen to
Tere
Dar Par Sanam | Theme
from Summer of 42
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| No comments!!!
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43 |
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Kaho
na kaho [Film: Murder (2004)]
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This song is not composed by Anu
Malik, even though he's been credited as the composer. Its a
different thing that, that happens to be the case with most
other songs listed above :-))). Anyway, check the original of
this song in 'Trivia' page - No. 12!
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Jaane
Jaana [Film: Murder (2004)]
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The original is actually a Bengali pop song by the popular Bangaldeshi band,
'Miles', called 'Firiye Dao'.
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Listen to
Jaane Jaana |
Firiye Dao
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The original was part of Miles' 1993 album,
'Prottasha'. Needless to say, the Hindi version is a note-to-note copy of the original - even the orchestration is lifted blatantly.
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Trivia Note on
Miles:
Miles
initially became popular for replaying English songs. Their
popularity continued after the release of their own Bangla songs. Hamen and Shafen (the main musicians), are sons of Feroza Begum, the Nazrul geeti singer. Miles started their music career by releasing the first self titled album in 1982, where all the numbers were in English. The second album called "A step further" was also in English.
They released their first Bangla album in 1991, called "Protusruty". The second Bangla Album was released in
1993, called "Prottasha". This was a hit and still remains the only best selling pop album in Bangladesh. The third Bangla album called "Prottoy" came out in in 1996.
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Bheegey
Hont Tere [Film: Murder (2004)]
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Blatant lift from the Pakistani
track 'Menu tere naal', by Najam Sheraz.
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Listen to
Bheegey
hont tere | Menu
tere naal [Listen
to the full song here]
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The original was part of Najam
Sheraz's 2000 album called 'Pyar Karanu Dil Karda'. In fact, Najam
was so peeved when he saw the Indian lifted version on the TVs recently and
decided to get back at them by adding his song to the song's footage
from Murder and aired it as a new music video for his track in Pakistani
channels!
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Jab Bhi...Koi [Film: Hera
Pheri (2000)]
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Inspired by Mark Morrison's 1996
track 'Return of the mack' |
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Listen to
Jab bhi...koi |
Return of the mack |
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Partly inspired. But it sure looks
like Anu has worked extra hard to add his own stamp to the
song. |
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About Mark Morrison:
Morrison, who was born in Germany but grew up in Highfields
(Leicester), split with Warner in 2000 because of his
controversial off stage antics. He was jailed for sending a
look-alike to complete a community service order while he
was on tour. His 1996 dance floor anthem Return Of The Mack,
has sold three million copies worldwide.
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Chale Jaise Hawaayein [Film:
Main Hoon Na (2004)]
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Inspired by Nusrat Fateh Ali
Khan's 'Yeh jo halka halka suroor hai' |
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Listen to
Chale jaise hawaayein
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Yeh jo halka halka |
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Though Anu Malik has considerably worked on his version, the
opening is a sure-shot giveaway! |
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48 |
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Mohobbat Zindagi Hai [Film:
Nazar (2005)]
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Blatant lift from Mehdi Hassan's
classic ghazal with the same lyrics. |
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Listen to Mohobbat Zindagi Hai -
Nazar
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Mehdi
Hassan |
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Mahesh Bhatt and his Pakistani
influences/ lifts are already very famous. The strange thing
is, while he keeps lifting tracks from Pakistan for his
films made under the Vishesh Films banner, he also goes
across to Islamabad trying to promote his movies. Won't our
neighbors feel annoyed looking at this man, who, in one hand
lifts their tracks with no credit to the original composer
and on the other, talks of cross-border friendship and
exchange of movies? What kind of flawed logic is this? If
this doesn't expose this man's hypocrisy and
money-mindedness, what else will? |
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50 |
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Woh lamhe and Agar tum mil
jao [Film:
Zeher (2005)]
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Even though the audio company
credits Anu Malik for 're-creating' the songs in this movie
(Roop Kumar Rathod credited as the 'composer'), I refuse to
buy this crap from the Bhatt camp. Going by Anu Malik's
dubious past, this could be a ploy to get away with
plagiarism. |
Listen to
Agar tum mil jao
(Zeher)
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Agar tum mil jao
(Tasavvur
Khanum)
Listen to
Woh lamhey
(Zeher)
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Woh lamhey (Jal) |
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The composing credits in Zeher seems maha-murky.
While Roop Kumar Rathod has been credited for 'composing' the tracks,
others including Anu Malik have been credited for 're-creating' some
tracks. So we've Anu Malik re-creating 'Agar tum mil jao' while it is
originally a Pakistani ghazal by Tasavvur Khanum and Mithun and Naresh
Sharma re-creating 'Woh lamhey' while it is originally a Pakistani pop
track of the same name by the band Jal. Interestingly one of Jal's
ex-lead singers Atif Aslam has rendered the Hindi version. The band Jal
broke off in a spectacular fashion recently and last heard there's a
litigation going on for the use of the band's name Jal by both the
members! Zeher has an interesting problem - there's no single composer
you can pin the blame on...is this Mr Bhatt's novel ploy to avoid the
issues he had in the lifted tracks in Murder? But he sure could be sued
by the makers of the 2003 Denzel Washinton starrer 'Out of time' since
Zeher is a scene-by-scene lift of that movie! Finally, does Roop Kumar
Rathod know of these lifts? What does he has to say since he's the
official 'composer'? |
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51 |
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Yeh khushi ki mehfil/ Churalo
dil [Film:
Hum to mohobbat karega (2000)]
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Both inspired by French singer Edith
Piaf's 'La vie en rose'. |
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Listen to
Yeh Khushi ki mehfil
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Churalo
dil | La vie en rose |
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You might recall Pancham's
fabulous interpretation of the same original in Bade Dilwala
(Kahin na jaa - RDB Page, No. 34). Anu Malik's version too
has some improvisations that would force me put it under
inspirations and not call it a lift! |
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Deewana dil [Film: Inteha (2003)]
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Lifted off Maurice Jarre's Theme
from Lawrence of Arabia! Again! |
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Listen to
Deewana dil |
Theme from Lawrence of Arabia |
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So Macarena is perhaps not the
only song that Mr Malik chose to lift twice! |
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Chakle chakle [Film: Deewane
Huye Paagal (2005)]
<TC> |
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Lifted from Kevin Lyttle's 2003
chartbuster 'Turn me on' |
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Listen to
Chakle chakle
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Turn me on |
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Shame on you, Anu dude! |
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Dil dil dil [Film: Aaghaaz (2000)]
& Day by day [Film: Pyare Mohan (2006)]
<TC> |
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Lifted from The Chantay's Pipeline
(1962) |
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Listen to
Day by day |
Dil dil dil |
Pipeline |
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Seems like Anu likes this track so
much that he reused it! That takes the count of Anu's dual
lifts to 3! Pipeline was made famous by The Ventures in
their 1963 cover. |
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Rabba de di [Film: Pyare
Mohan (2006)]
<TC> |
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Lifted from Tunisian singer Saber
El Rubai's Sidi Mansour (2000) |
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Listen to
Rabba de di |
Sidi mansour |
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Direct lift! |
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Love you my angel [Film:
Pyare Mohan (2006)]
<TC> |
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Part of The Ventures cult classic
'Walk Don't Run'! |
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Listen to I love you my angel [Exact
bit] [Longer clip]
| Walk don't run [Exact
bit] [Longer clip] |
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Anu seems to have used the
Ventures' track as the starting point to
create his version...which is rather unique since its not even a
prominent oft-repeated refrain! |
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Trivia: Did
you know that Walk Don't Run is actually a Jazz composition originally
by Jazz guitarist Johnny Smith? And that Chet Atkins first covered it
before The Ventures turned into a surf-guitar'ish monster hit?
More here! |
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Dil ko hazaar baar [Film:
Murder (2004)]
<TC> |
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Inspired by a traditional Jewish
track, 'Mazel tov'! |
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Listen to
Dil ko hazaar baar
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Mazel Tov |
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For a composer who lifts 'Happy
birthday to you' (Try 'Tera gussa', from Kareeb!), this is
nothing at all! |
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Aaghaaz Title Song [Film:
Murder (2004)]
<TC> |
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Completely lifted off Vangelis'
L'enfant from his 1979 album, 'Open Sauvage'! |
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Listen to
Aaghaaz Title Song
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L'enfant |
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Anu Malik almost plays the original as-is
and asks Sonu to add sing the same tune in words! Pretty
funny stuff, this! |
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Trivia: Open Sauvage
was originally a soundtrack for the nature documentary by
the same name by the French filmmaker Frédéric Rossif.
More,
here! |
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Salaam [Film:
Umrao Jaan (2006)]
<TC> |
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Bears an uncanny similarity to Nadeem Shravan's forgotten
song, 'Dhoom
machi hai', from the 2002 film, 'Ansh'. |
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Listen to
Salaam
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Dhoom machi hai |
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In a recent
Mumbai Mirror write-up Anu Malik attributed the popularity of some
of his recent soundtracks (including Umrao Jaan!) to a divine figure
that entrusted responsibility to score for some films!! Looks like that
figure is either Nadeem or Shravan Bhai! Its very likely that both
composers may have sought inspiration (as usual!) from some Pakistani
track or perhaps another older Hindi track...just a matter of time
before someone brings it to our notice! |
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Mera mulk mera desh [Film:
Diljale (1996)]
<TC> |
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Inspired by Israel's national anthem,
'Hatikvah'. |
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Listen to
Mera mulk |
Hatikvah |
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And
all along we thought they were singing about our Bharathiya motherland...now we know! The interesting fact is that the
original is supposedly based on an 17th century Italian song called La
Mantovana and has been in use in other forms across Spain, Poland and
even Ukraine! Much more of this track's fascinating past...here! |
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Rootho na humse [Album:
Jadoo (1985)]
<TC> |
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Lifted off Charlie Chaplin's Nonsense
song from the film, Modern Times. |
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Listen to
Rootho na humse
| Nonsense
Song | Je cherche
après Titine |
Alisha Chinai made her
filmi debut back in the 80s with a song composed by Bappida
for the film Tarzan, if I recall right. One of her earliest
pop albums, Jadoo, incidentally had music by a largely
out-of-work Anu Malik. Many online sites quote 1985 as the
year this album came out. And, one of the songs in the
album, 'Rootho na humse dilbar' bears an uncanny resemblance
to the very famous 'Nonsense Song' by Charlie Chaplin, in
the 1936 film, 'Modern Times'. This song with gibberish
lyrics is performed by Chaplin’s nameless character as he
improvises when forced to perform as a singing waiter. This
song is a landmark since this is the first ever time Chaplin
ever spoke on screen! The tune of this song, however, is
uncredited in Modern Times. The original is called 'Je
cherche après Titine' (I'm looking for Titine) by a French
composer named Léo Daniderff back in 1917. The one added
above is a 1925 version by The Promenaders.
Two more tracks where Anu Malik 'uses'
Chaplin's Nonsense song - an interlude in Duplicate's 'Ladna
jhagadna' and a line in Haseena Maan Jaayegi's 'What is
mobile number'! These are not very direct, but quite subtle
and shows how this piece has taken a permanent place in
Anu's sound bank!
Listen to
Ladna jhagadna
interlude |
What is
mobile number piece
Trivia:
Watch Chaplin
in the Nonsense Song - Simply brilliant! And, here's
more on Daniderff. |
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Yaar mere dildaara [Album:
Mission Istaanbul (2008)]
<TC> |
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The original is 'Ek baat kahoon
dildaara' from the 1978 Pakistani film 'Khuda
aur mohobbat', with music by Tafoo and sung by A Nayyar. |
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Listen to
Yaar
mere dildaara |
Ek baat
kahoon |
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I heard both the tracks and had even concluded
that besides the alarming similarity in lyrics, the tunes were different
- Anu's song is pathos-laden while the Pakistani song is on a happy,
love lorn note. And there were ways in which both the songs were sung -
the Pakistani track had an extended 'Dil daaaaaraa' + 'maaaaraa'
combination. I was ready to give Anu Malik the benefit of doubt - until
I finished listening to the Mission Istaanbul track. Sunidhi goes
exactly the same way as the Pakistani original towards the end of the
song - just once! But, that's a dead giveaway along with the lyrical
similarity to conclude Anu's intentions! |
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Yaariaan [Beqabu (1996)]
<TC> |
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Lifted off Pakistani band Vital Signs'
Yaarian! |
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Listen to
Yaarian (Beqabu) |
Yarian (Vital Signs) |
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This song was lifted from Pakistan's most loved
pop band, Vital Signs' hit number of the same title, from their 3rd
studio album, 'Aitebar' that
came out in 1993. This is a bland lift - the mild tune turn
that Vital Signs add in line two has been ironed out by Anu
to create a flat, listless lift with an extended prelude
that was the man's trademark back then. |
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Nahin
jeena pyaar bina [Chaahat (1996)]
<TC> |
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Lifted off Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's
song of the same title. |
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Listen to
Naen jeena pyar
bina |
Nahin jeena pyaar bina (Chaahat) |
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Note Anu's garish, if not memorable (mere
nostalgia!) tune changes in the 'Sukh aave, dukh aave' part
and the reshuffle of the 3 main parts of the original,
besides the snazzy backgrounds! Now, there's no question on
who lifted from whom - we're discussing Anu Malik and Nusrat
here - but considering the fact that the compilation and
Chaahat's soundtrack came out in the same here, does anyone
know if Nusrat's track is from an earlier period? Or, was
Anu-Bhatt combo just watching the Pakistani music scene that
closely that they lifted a track fresh off the release? |
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Yeh
dil main [Jawab (1995)]
<TC> |
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Lifted from a similarly titled song
from the Pakistani film, Badltey
Rishtey. |
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Listen to
(Tune lifted) Yeh dil
main (Prem Yog) - Yeh Dil main (Badltey Rishtey) -
Male
| Female;
(Lyrics lifted) Yeh dil
main (Jawab) |
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Much as I complain about getting
bored of Indian songs lifted from Pakistani originals, some
of the interesting ones have a story much beyond mere tune
lifts - like this update. The 1983 Pakistani film, Badltey
Rishtey (spelt like this in the
DVD cover!) was one of those family dramas by director
Shamas Chodhary, starring Babra Sharif, Waseem Abbas and
Mohammad Ali. Music was composed by Nazir Ali. One of the songs in the film, sung for
Mohammad Ali, by Mehdi Hasan, was the famous, 'Yeh dil main
rehnewaale'. The song also has a female version. The
interesting bit is that this film's plot was freemade in
India as 'Jawab' (1995), by director Ajay Kashyap, starring
Raaj Kumar, Mukesh Khanna, Karishma Kapoor and Harish. Music
was composed by Anu Malik and he, for some unknown reason,
retained the same lyrics for the Yeh dil mein song (perhaps
same situation), but with an altered tune - it was sung by
the ruling playback singer of 90s music - Kumar Sanu. But,
this website is about lifted tunes and not lifted plots, right? So,
the fascinating part is that Bappi Lahiri had already lifted
the tune for a 1994 film, Prem Yog, starring Rishi Kapoor
and Madhoo, with the same lyrics and the same singer, Kumar
Sanu. This song was a milder, slightly tweaked version - the
pronounced 'Yeh' that begins the Pakistani song got added as
one word, 'Yehdil' in Bappi's version. The funny bit here is
that both Hindi versions had different lyricists (with the
same lyrics)! |
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Ek
din fursat mein [Zindaggi Rocks (2006)]
<TC> |
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Lifted from Secret Garden's track
'Adagio' from their debut album, 'Songs
from a Secret Garden' (1996) |
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Listen to
Ek din fursat mein
| Adagio |
After all that Pritam-talk, lets get
back to Anu Malik for a change. Mandar wrote to me with the
possible source of Anu Malik's drop dead gorgeous track, Ek
din fursat mein' from Tanuja Chandra's Zindagi Rocks - could
it be Mono's Life in Mono? Twitter to the rescue - I put it
out as a question and got the response from Ravindran aka @Musicalmice!
The original is Secret Garden's track 'Adagio' from their
debut album, 'Songs
from a Secret Garden' (1996). The Hindi version is a
carbon copy, with minimal embellishments that a lyric-based
song demands, but Sunidhi has done a phenomenal job here
with her vocals. Anu Malik, of course, does not credit
Secret Garden anywhere.
Thanks for Mandar's mail that
prompted this search and Ravindran's tweet that exposed the
original.
Update:
Apologies for not crediting Ravi_kesh2002 for this find -
his thread was posted way back on Sept.22, 2009 and there
was
quite a bit of conversation around it too. Including a
possible similarity between the Zindaggi Rocks track and Anu
Malik's international project, Eyes...the song, 'When I look
at you'. Though that song seems similar, I don't think it
has anything directly to do with Secret Garden's Adagio. |
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