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Ilayaraja [Tamil]
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Kanavu kaanum [Film: Neengal Kettavai]
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Ditto replica of the song 'kasme vaade' from the movie Upkaar. Music by
Kalyanji Anandji!
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Listen to Kanavu kaanum |
Kasme vaade
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Its my duty to add that a talk that
KA and IR exchanged songs (IR had supposedly 'given' the song 'Ilaya
nila' to KA!) has been doing the rounds for quite some time.
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Theme from Mouna Raagam [Film: Mouna
Raagam]
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Inspired from the theme of the film Flash Dance by Giorgio Moroder.
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Listen to Mouna
Raagam BGM |
Flash Dance
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Inspired! No direct lift but a very
beautiful adaptation of the Flash Dance theme. 'Adaptation' would be the
best word to describe this. But you sure can find out traces which
confirms IR listening to the Flash Dance theme for inspiration.
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Chittu kuruvi [Film: Chinna
Veedu]
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Inspired from Antonin Dvorak's Symphony 9 - New World. The actual track
is Sym No. 9 in e, Op. 95: Scherzo: Molto Vivace.
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Listen to Chittu kuruvi | Antonin
Dvorak's Symphony 9 (The beginning of the Tamil song can be
distinctly heard in this clip. Make sure you have your speaker volumes
in max, it starts with a very low volume) |
| An exceptionally beautiful case of
genuine inspiration. This is how a composer of repute gets inspired for
his compositions. This can never ever be called plagiarism. Such
instances are really rare and probably more common if we dig deep into
Ilayaraja's compositions! Truly, a masterpiece! |
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Kan malargalin [Film:
Thaippongal]
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Inspired from ABBA's Money money money
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Just the beginning of the
song.
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Darling darling darling [Film:
Priya] |
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Inspired from Boney M's number, Sunny |
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Again, just the beginning.
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Entha poovilum vaasam [Film: Murattukkaalai]
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Inspired from Antonio Ruiz-Pipo's 'Cancione et Danza: 2. Danza'.
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Entha
poovilum vaasam undu | Cancion
et Danza: 2. Danza
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| The opening portion is surely inspired.
But a typical Ilayaraja-like intricate work!
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Ada veetukku veetukku [Film: Kizhakku
Vaasal]
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Inspired from Mozart's 25th symphony, 1st movement.
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| Good case of inspiration. Surely
cannot call it copying. This is the signature tune of Titan watch advts
on TV, composed by none other than A R Rahman! |
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Thannanam [Film:
Yathra (1985)]
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Thiyyani [Film:
Nireekshana (1981)]
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Poottukkal [Film:
Chatriyan (1991)] |
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Inspired from the song 'My favorite things' from the all time classic
Sound of Music!
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Thannannam |
Poottukkal
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Thiyyani
| My
favorite things |
| Again, good case of
inspiration. Raja had made enough
adaptations to suit this to an Indian film song, but the
inspiration is quite apparent. Was this a request from Balu?
Yet another Ilayaraja track that seems to use mild bits of
the same original is the 1990 Chatriyan number, 'Poottukkal
pottaalum'. Here the tune is completely changed with only
marginal resemblances to the Sound of Music hit.
Incidentally, Raja had first used this tune in the 1981
Telugu film Nireekshana, by Balu Mahendra, for the song, 'Thiyyani'! |
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Chittukku chella chittukku [Film: Nallavanukku
Nallavan]
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Possibly inspired by Rimsky-Korsakov's 'The Tale Of The Kalendar Prince',
from his 1888 work by name 'Scheherazade'.
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Listen to
Chittukku
chella chittukku |
Tale
of Kalendar Prince
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Given Ilayaraja's love for Western
Classical music, it sounds plausible...also taking into account his past
inspirations from the likes of Antonin Dvorak! Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov
is one of the leading 19th century Russian nationalist composers. 'Scheherazade'
was written almost towards the end of Rimsky's career and life...as he put it himself in his memoirs,
it "closes a period of my work, at the end of which my orchestration had attained a considerable degree of virtuosity and warm
sonority"
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Kaadhal Vandhiruchu [Film: Kalyanaraman (1979)]
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A prominent portion partly inspired by the song 'Lady in Black' by the
rock band Uriah Heep!
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Listen to
Kaadhal
Vandhiruchu | Lady
in Black
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Lady in Black was part of Uriah Heep's
1970 album, 'Salisbury'.
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Akkarai
seemai azhaginiley [Film: Priya (1978)]
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The opening is inspired by the
1967 British single 'Kites' by Simon Dupree and the Big Sound.
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Akkarai
seemai | Kites
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| When I say opening, I mean the first 2 lines of both the songs
sound DITTO! And coming from a composer of Ilayaraja's stature, this is
quite a shocker! |
More on Simon Dupree and the Big Sound!
Simon Dupree was a pop band with the three brothers Shulman in the lead. Derek called himself Simon Dupree. They reached the British Top 10 with the single "Kites," a psychedelic single in the Beatles vein, and which was hated by the band!
The band hated being a sort of cabaret band in the late 60's, when they even had to open for Beach Boys.
Derek hated more and more being marketed as Simon Dupree.
Another interesting anecdote about this group and a person named 'Reg', goes thus (as narrated by one of the brothers, Ray Shulman) ..."Reg played with Simon Dupree & the Big sound for a couple of months when our keyboard player Eric Hine was recovering from glandular fever. We toured Scotland during this time and became good friends. One night in a scottish hotel he played us what was to become songs from Reg's first album including 'Your Song'. Of course we fell about laughing especially when he said he was changing his name. We got on so well that Reg wanted to stay with us. At a session in Abbey Road studios he played on a track called 'Laughing boy from nowhere' and we recorded one of his songs. We stayed in touch for quite a time after that and I used to go to see Reg and Bernie Taupin in Watford where they lived. I also went down to the studio when he was recording his first album"
- - Reg changed his name to Elton John and the rest, as the cliche goes, is history!
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A
B C nee vaasi [Film: Oru kaidhiyin diary (1984)]
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Inspired by George Bizet's 1897
L'Arlésienne Suite Number One, 4th movement, called
'Carillon' (Allegro moderato).
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A B C nee vaasi
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L'Arlésienne Suite
No.1-Carillon |
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Homage?.....Internalized? :-) |
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More on
L'Arlésienne Suites!
>> Here! |
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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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