We still wonder how they got away with the plagiarism.
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Guts, we say! How do you even dare to copy Neil Sedaka’s ‘Oh! Carol’? The music was an exact copy of the original. We guess, a few are already aware of this hideous crime. How we still can’t stop tapping our feet to ‘Koi Mil Gaya’, right? But we bet you didn’t know that this song was actually inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber’s song ‘Take That Look Off Your Face’. Alas, this was also a copy of ‘Ahla Ma Feki’, sung by an Egyptian pop singer Hisham Abbas. Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya won several accolades for lending his vocals to this song remember? In fact, the song ruled the chartbusters for a very long time. It was inspired by ‘The Yellow Rose of Texas’, a traditional American folk song by Mitch Miller. Given a chance, even today we prefer to dedicate this song to our better half, right? Perhaps, one of the most impressive love songs of the ‘70s was also a copy. Well, if you don’t believe us, you gotta listen to this. But then, the song was directly lifted from a song, ‘If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium’ sung by a folk and pop vocalist, Bojoura. ‘Chura Liya Hai Tumne Jo Dil Ko’, Yaadon Ki BaaraatĪnother absolute favourite from the ‘70s sung by R D Burman was this. It was a copy of a song titled, ‘Ta Rialia’, sung by a popular Greek singer Mihalis Violaris. It hurts to know that one of our favourite songs from the ‘70s sung by the legendary singer R D Burman was also not original. From ‘Mehbooba Mehbooba’ to ‘Koi Mil Gaya’, here’s a list of iconic Bollywood songs that were actually a copy. However, they varied as some believed in direct lifts, others were smart to tweak it in their own style.
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Little did we know that some of the classic songs sung by legendary singers were actually plagiarized. While the past few years saw an overdose of remakes, the ‘80s and ‘90s were no less. There’s been a dearth of original songs in Hindi cinema, with every other musical offering being either remixed or remade. This is the place to begin finding out who he was and why his music played such a vital role in the Bollywood industry.Bollywood often takes the easy way out. Burman's work has kept samplers and DJs happy for years, but in its raw form has been a well-kept secret outside of India. If Bhosle is the most recorded artist ever, then her sister Lata Mangeshkar is in second place, and Burman worked with her, too (something his wife wasn't too pleased with - the two were rivals). (Why was it controversial? Because in English that's "take another toke."). Her high-pitched voice has been committed to tape literally thousands of times (some claim she is the most recorded artist in history) and the '70s and '80s recordings presented here, starting with the controversial "Dum Maro Dum," which became, and remains, hugely popular in India, are among her best known. Bollywood aficionados will immediately recognize the Bhosle tracks that occupy much of the first disc. Burman's Bollywood, but this two-disc collection is the first truly comprehensive survey of Burman's output. In 2005, his name received a higher profile when the legendary Indian "playback" singer, Asha Bhosle - who was Burman's wife ( Burman died in 1994) - teamed with the adventurous Kronos Quartet and released the excellent You've Stolen My Heart: Songs from R.D. But remarkably, despite the huge audience for Indian film in the United States, almost none of the composer's original recordings have been released here, save for the occasional track on a compilation. Talk about prolific: it is claimed that his soundtrack work has appeared in more than 300 Bollywood films. If you've seen an Indian film made between the early '60s and the mid-'90s, chances are you've heard the music of R.D.