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Monday March 21, 2011

IndiaGlitz copies my music review of Kullanari Koottam

Posted by Karthik

Just another day in the life of Milliblog, I suppose? Let us look at the extent of plagiarism, from even my severely brief 100 words – sentence (Indiaglitz) by sentence (mine).

Milliblog says: Vizhigalile is pitch-perfect; delightful tune, beautifully orchestrated and super vocals by Karthik and Chinmayi – delectable!
Indiaglitz says: “Vizhigalile” is a pitch-perfect song; a delightful tune to listen and beautifully orchestrated. The vocals are by Karthik and Chinmayi which are delectable! It’s has all the ingredients for an ideal romantic song.”

Milliblog says: If that was good, then Hariharan’s solo, Kadhal enbadhai, gets even better! On the lines of the sparse, early-Rahman, love-soaked melodies, this one, with wonderful lyrics by Suryaprabhakar, is stunningly beautiful! Hariharan’s sonorous voice makes it sound even better – great choice of singer by the composer!
Indiaglitz says: Hariharan’s solo, “Kadhal Enbadhai”, gets even better! The lines of this love-soaked melody resembles early-Rahmans work. With wonderful lyrics by Suryaprabhakar the song is very much admirable! Hariharan’s sonorous voice makes it sound even better, sure Hariharan was a great choice for this song by the composer!

Milliblog says: The title song is pulsatingly arranged, but that’s about it.
Indiaglitz says: The title song is pulsatingly arranged, it has a high spirit and it is ideally sung by Shankar Mahadevan. Apart from that the song is that’s about it. Perhaps the visual might add more meaning to it.

Milliblog says: Adugira maattai and Acham are middling, templatized tracks evoking limited interest.
Indiglitz says: “Adugira Maattai”, is like a song where it will be hit among college chaps. However this track evokes limited interest. Lyrics by V Elango are quite rythmic which goes nicely with the tune of the song. “Acham” has little adaptation of the high beat songs from the past. Rashmi’s powerful voice dominates all over the song. Kalpana has done a fair job but some times his part has been overshadowed by Rashmis’.

Milliblog says: After his abysmal work in Drohi, composer Selvaganesh more than redeems himself with Vizhigalile and Kaadhal enbadhai!
Indiaglitz says: After his abysmal work in Drohi, composer Selvaganesh is back who proves his best with Vizhigalile and Kadhal Enbadhal!

Few observations:

1. I really applaud Indiaglitz for racking their brains and writing something original about 2 songs that I clubbed and called ‘middling’. Amazing effort.

2. If Indiaglitz cannot afford to hire decent writers, let them not manage a site like this. Or, become a content aggregator – they already lift *every* bit of their so-called news from Tamil magazines; they offer poor English translation services…uncredited, if I may add.

3. Is it intentional that there is no name mentioned against this review, so that nobody in particular could be blamed?

4. Imitation may be the best form of flattery, but just for your kind information, Indiaglitz, I’m not flattered at all.

  • gopalme

    I would blame those who visit the likes of indiaglitz, behindwoods and then give them credibility by linking to content there

  • http://twitter.com/vovinith Vinith
  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_KAFLQTWDGTRFODDRHC5DSETIQQ Sangeetha Shanmugam

    This is terrible. Am glad you pointed it out and posted an article.

  • http://vith.me Vithun Kumar Gajendra

    Very interesting. Just looking at the standard of English of the original content (whatever little there is), I can sort of imagine a picture of the author. I might be wrong, but this is what I feel:

    A guy who has studied in an average school, with focus only on obtaining marks/grades rather than obtaining knowledge. After this, he has found work somewhere (in this case, IndiaGlitz), and he has followed the same method he used at school/college: 1) Look up stuff on the internet. 2) Fill in a bit of your own words. 3) Submit it as own work. 4) And everything will be fine (?!).

    And due to his ignorance, he does not even know that stuff on the internet can spread very fast and he can get caught. All he cares is that he completes his daily job and earns his bread.

    The only way this (and similar) problem(s) can be solved is by addressing it at the grass-roots level. And that is the school level. I am not accusing every single school, but am speaking for a majority of the schools in our country. We are never thought that “plagiarism” is a bad thing. In fact, I was at least 16 years old before I had heard the word “plagiarism”.

    And because the fact that “copying is no big deal” gets ingrained into our mindset at a very young age, it ends up leading to such embarrassing situations in the future. I recently did a degree abroad, and during my course there we were required to submit assignments. Many assignments were detected as plagiarism cases, and it was a shame that most of these were by Indians. And the sorry part is that these people who plagiarise don’t even seem to realise that they are doing something unethical. And I imagine, the author of the IndiaGlitz post also to be the same.

    Now you can expect IndiaGlitz to fire that author or something. But that doesn’t solve the problem. The bigger solution required is for the education system in our country to teach about ethical and unethical behaviours from a very small age, and that includes “plagiarism”.

  • http://twitter.com/nmPraveen Praveen

    LOL… Never expected this from indiaglitz. .. i rated them too much but now they are par with behindwoods..

  • http://twitter.com/ssrk Sharavana Ram Kumar

    These websites like behindwoods and indiaglitz are doing nothing but just following all celebrities in twitter and making news based on the updates they get from celeb’s tweets! junk fellas.

  • http://twitter.com/vigneshram Vigneshram

    Kullanari kootam @ Indiaglitz doing this cheap act…

  • adithyavijay

    This is very bad and cheap. This will be definitely annoying you. I also use to read reviews from Indiaglitz thinking they are genuine, but not anymore.

  • Sonnenlicht

    Sue them, if possible. :)
    BTW, there should be some copyright claim with each of your reviews. It’s high-time.

  • http://twitter.com/yajuarya Yaju Arya

    Badhaai ho sir…. PAAAAAAAARRRRRRTTTTTTYYYYY…. :P

  • dmachop

    What a fast reaction from Indiaglitz!!! Wish Indian government were like this:
    http://www.indiaglitz.com/channels/tamil/musicreview/12534.html

  • http://profiles.google.com/vicky.inderjitjain Vicky jain

    patent your reviews kartik!!!!

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