Old days:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=CjcR5y1sYQ4&feature=related
some time back:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=k7ITxizuizs&feature=related
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=_yWleMi02Kk
recent ones :
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ifbj0MAVTIw&feature=related
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=QkuGm_7sWdA&feature=related
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ani
Location: carl sagan's universe
Posted on: 25-01-09 22:49:02
even before that- Shammi Kapoor did
'aao twist kare' copied from Chubby Checker's 'Let's twist again'.
But you know even in Spain, people would copy songs from England/Us- the one that comes foremost to mind is 'Amarillo el submarino es' copied from the Beatles 'Yellow Submarine'
But then the US did its version of 3 men and a baby from a French flick and then the Indians did it in 'Hey baby'
Sab gharbar ghotaalaa.
Also Hindi flicks are copies form Hollywood - many of them .
nice line from Einstein.
It can be argued for the sake of argument that it is very hard to draw a concrete line between inspiration and copying.
But at the end, in your heart of hearts, you can tell which composers/music is inspired vs shamelessly copied.
Inspiration has always been around.
Salil Chowdhy's prelude to "mausam beeta jaye" from Do Bigha Zameen is adapted from the Russian Red Army marching tunes.
"Dil tarap tarap ke" from "Madhumati" is based on a Hungarian folk song.
Rabindranath Tagore's "Purano shaye diner kotha" is almost a note-by-note copy of a Hungarian folk song.
A lot of Naushad Ali's compositions from Aan, Baiju Bawra, Mughal-E-Azam etc. based heavily on northern Indian folks songs.
Both the father-son Burmans, Salil Chowdhy and Hemant Kumar used to routinely re-use their Bengali compositions as Hindi movies tunes.
I can think of scores of other examples, given the time.
However, all these were great composers who were inspired by culture, music and people from around the world.
The best inspires the best.
In turn, they inspired others.
On the other hand, starting from the generation of Bappi Lahiri, we see inspiration morphing into shameless copying.
And it has gotten steadily worse since then.
Compared to the likes of Annu Malik, etc. Bappi Lahiri seems like a original legend 
I have lost interest and lost touch since the times of Annu Malik, Nadeem Shravan, etc.
The latest quintet of composers have neither originality nor inspiration.
It's a cacophony of digital instruments, artificial voices and computerized effects.
The soul of good music is, thankfully, long dead, buried and forgotten.
It must be playing the harp somewhere in the heavens above.
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