If anything about Bollywood always made me feel content, it was the music from the dream factory. Sadly it was only the sole Bhangra music that captured the attention of the international listeners when they heard about Indian and Bollywood music. But over the last few years, I am noticing more and more mainstream Indian songs being incorporated in international songs, which is a good sign.
My favorites were the incorporation of 'Aao Huzoor Aao' before the song 'Quizás Quizás Quizás', filmed on a drag Gael Garcia Bernal in Pedro Almodovar's fabulous 'LA MALA EDUCACIÓN'. And who can forget the diamond clad Nicole Kidman singing Chamma Chamma (the original being filmed on a ultra hot Urmila) in Moulin Rouge?
But even a bigger trend nowadays is incorporating hindi tracks in Reggaethon and Hip hop tracks.
So you have Adnan Sami's Kabhi to Nazar Milao's few lines featuring in the track Un Chi Chi by Aventura, Anu Malik's Eli Re Eli from the movie Yaadein featuring in the track Mirame Mirame by Daddy Yankee and Bappi Da's Thoda Resham Lagta Haifrom the movie Jyoti featuring in the track Addictive by Truth Hurts
Finally our good old Hindi film music getting its due recognition from internation quarters. For once Bappi Da and Anuji can sue the international artistes for loyalty purposes.
Btw, when we are talking about plagiarism here, I should also say that its not that none of the Indian artists mentioned above have never been "inspired" by any other international numbers. Particularly there is little thing that I still vaguely remember about Bappi Lahiri's 'Kaliyon Ka Chaman' plagiarism mess.
Of course it is known story that Bappida sued Dr Dre and won the lawsuit against them in the case of plagiarism for using his composed music in the song Addictive. The other part of the story is an Indian twist to the copycat story. This one features in the assorted remix compilation UMI10 - Volume 3! The music is credited to composer Harry Anand. When some journalist asked him about the origins of his song, Harry responded back saying that he was asked to remix the US smash hit in his own way by the record label. He apparently had no clue about the movie 'Jyoti' and the actual original! Even more funnier is the video for the remixed Indian version...its a straight lift of the US version! So they lift our song, and we lift the lifted. We also lift their video! Interesting equation, this!
P.S.: If you have noticed all the URLs in the post above, Youtube yay!
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You post reminded me of Bollywood’s renowned Music Director, Mr. Pritam, a big copy cat; he should be sued for copying. But the music stolen by him is beyond doubt worth listening to.
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