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Anand Milind [Hindi]
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Anand Milind must be
one of the most hated composers down South due to the number of songs
they've copied from Tamil and Telugu films...mostly the Southern Maestro
Ilayaraja's songs and occasionally a few of A R Rahman's. This page will bloat to an unmentionable size if I start including even
half of those lifts.
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O Jaane jaaana [Film:
Insaaf]
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Ditto from Kenny G's Breathless!
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| Ditto!
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Title song [Film: Khullam khulla pyar
karenge]
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Ditto from Enrique Iglasius' Bailamos! |
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Baaraana de [Film: Insaaf (1993)]
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Lifted lock stock and barrel from 'paranue' by Serapis Bey.
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Baraana de
| Paranue |
| The original was part of the soundtrack
of the 1993 movie 'Only the strong''.
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Gazab ka hai din [Film: Qayamat se qayamat
tak]
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Inspired by Neil Diamond's 'Play me'. But amazingly improvised that its
almost hard to detect that its inspired!
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Gazab ka hai
din | Play
me |
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its really hard to say that its inspired! Very unAnand-Milindlike! There
is such a huge difference between the two but there are a few give-aways
too. To start with, the original is Neil Diamond's 'Play me'. In the Hindi
song there is a slight twist which the singer gives in the second line (gazab
ka hai din is sung normally, while the second line 'yeah deewanapan' has
a mild twist in the word deewanapan!). Play me has a similar twist in
line 2 - 'I one day woke up to find', the twist at the word 'to find'
(listen to this part from 00:24:0). Also, the 'tum ho akele, hum bhi
akele, maza aa raha hai, kasam se' is almost exactly there in the English
number - listen from point 01:10:0 onwards!
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Dil mein kuch [Film: Army]
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Heavily inspired by the Roxette number 'The Look'
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Dil mein kuch
| The Look |
| Sure! |
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Choti si duniya [Film: Ek ladka ek ladki (1992)]
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Lifted ditto from Pakistani singer Akhlaq Ahmed's 'Sona na chaandi'
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Choti
si duniya | Sona
na chaandi |
| Blatant rip! 'Sona na
chaandi' was part
of the soundtrack of the Pakistani movie Bandish (1980) with music by
Robin Ghosh.
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Khambe jaise [Film: Dil (1990)] <TC>
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Partly inspired by the rock n roll track, Blue Suede Shoes by Carl
Perkins.
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Khambe jaise
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Suede Shoes (Elvis Presley)
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| Elvis Presley did a cover version of
Perkins' song in 1956 and it attained a cult status thereafter!
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Akele Hain [Film: Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988)] <TC>
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A note-to-note copy of the 1977 Shadows' track, 'Return To The Alamo'.
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Akele Hain |
Return
to the alamo
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heart-breaking lifts I've encountered so far! And its so damn blatant
that you almost think that the instrumental piece I've added here is
simply an instrumental version of the QSQT track. The first thing that
came to my mind after listening to the original was, '...and they got
paid for this?'
Note: I still think someone's gonna mail me saying that
the original listed above is nothing but an instrumental version of the
Hindi track and that this site sucks. I strongly suggest that such
people check out the 'Shadows'
site and the page
which talks about 'Return to the alamo'.
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Tere dil ne [Film: Loafer
(1996)] <TC>
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| Silly lift off Jon
Secada's 'Just another day' |
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Tere dil ne |
Just another day |
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The problem with
working on more exotic sources of lifts is that simpler, pop
influences by the likes of Anand Milind seems like a complete
bore. But, lets not distinguish between interesting and
uninteresting lifts and make the composer duo of Anand Milind
feel neglected. So, lets honor them for their bland,
flat, outright silly lift of Jon Secada's 1992 hit, 'Just
another day'. Apparently Anand Milind used this track to create,
'Tere dil ne', a supposedly dropped-from-the-film track for the
Anil Kapoor starrer 'Loafer' (1996). Surprisingly, this is one
of Shankar Mahadevan's earliest tracks as a full fledged
playback singer - this was during the period when he was doing
fringe playback and studio versions, much like the singer
Krishna, these days. Shankar does sound quite odd too and I'm
sure would appropriately cringe if one were to point this out to
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Bin tere kuch [Film:
Jaan se pyaara
(1992)] <TC>
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| Lifted off the 1974
Kannada number, 'Endendu ninnanu' from the Dr Rajkumar film,
Eradu Kanasu. |
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Listen to
Bin tere kuchh bhi |
Endendu ninnanu |
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Let
me unravel an absolutely delightful Kannada track, Endendu ninnanu, that Anand Milind ripped off
oh-so-blatantly to compose their
1992 track, 'Bin tere kuchh bhi' from the Govinda starrer, 'Jaan
se pyaara'. The original is by the composer duo Rajan
Nagendra, one of the most talented composers from Karnataka
and was featured in the 1974 Rajkumar starrer, 'Eradu kanasu'.
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Two related trivia:
For regular ItwoFS visitors not familiar with Kannada film
music...does the names Rajan Nagendra ring a bell? Check out
Nadeem Shravan page, listing no. 28!
The plot of 'Jaan se pyaara' was a lift too. From the 1985
Jackie Chan - Samo Hung starrer, 'Long de xin' (called
'Heart of the dragon' in its English release). Samo Hung
plays Jackie Chan's mentally retarded brother, while Govinda
perhaps insisted on playing both the roles himself...these
Indian heroes and their fetish for double roles...! |
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Hindi
Anu Malik
Anand Milind
Anand Raaj Anand
Bappi Lahiri
Jatin Lalit
Kalyanji Anandji
Laxmikant Pyarelal
Nadeem Shravan
OP Nayyar
Pritam Chakravarty
Rajesh Roshan
RD Burman
Salil Chaudhry
SD Burman
Sandeep Chowta
Sanjeev Darshan
Shankar Jaikishen
Hindi - others
Tamil
A R Rahman
Deva
Ilayaraja
Karthikraja
Yuvan S. Raja
Tamil - others
Assorted
Coincidences
Indipop
Advt. jingle lifts
Telugu
Trivia |
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