Part One – R.D.Burman and His Copied or Inspired Songs List –
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Saturday, June 12, 2010
Movie Name - Yaadon ki baraat
Song Name - Chura liya hai
Copied from original Song – 'If its Tuesday theme of the movie 'If its Tuesday
Movie Name - Jhoota kahinka
Song Name - Jeevan ke har modh pe
Copied from original Song – Azerbaijani number 'Gulsenim'
Movie Name - Satte pe satta
Song Name - Zindagi milke bitaayenge
Copied from original Song - 'The Longest day' from the movie the longest day.
Movie Name - Sanam teri kasam
Song Name - Dekta hun koi ladki haseen
Copied from original Song – Egyptian track, 'Mustafa mustafa'
Movie Name - Seeta aur geeta
Song Name - Koi ladka koi ladki
Copied from original Song – 'Did you ever' (1971) by Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra
Movie Name - Hum Kissse sai kam nahin
Song Name - Milgaya hum ko sathi
Copied from original Song – ABBA's Mama mia
Movie Name - Love Story
Song Name - Kaisa tera pyar
Copied from original Song – ABBA's 'I have a dream'
Movie Name - Bade Dilwala
Song Name - Jeevan ke din chotte sahi
Copied from original Song – Francis Lai's theme from Love Story
Movie Name - Bombay to Goa
Song Name - O mehki mehki thandi hawa
Copied from original Song – Beach Boys number 'Help me Rhonda'
Movie Name - Bombay to Goa
Song Name - Tum mere zindagi mein
Copied from original Song – Theme from Limelight composed by Charlie Chaplin
Movie Name - Bhoot bangla
Song Name - Aao twist karein
Copied from original Song – 'Come lets twist again' by Chubby Checker
Movie Name - Aaa Gale Lag Ja
Song Name - Tera mujhse hai pehle ka naata koi
Copied from original Song – 'The Yellow Rose of Texas' by Elvis Presley
Movie Name - Ghar
Song Name - Phir wohi raat hain
Copied from original Song – Carpenters' song "Sing a song"
Movie Name - Phir kab milogi
Song Name - Kahin karti hogi
Copied from original Song – The Lonely Bull by Herb Albert and Tijuana Brass
Movie Name - Parinda
Song Name - Tumse milke
Copied from original Song – Leo Sayer’s When I Need You
Movie Name - Manzil
Song Name - Tum ho meri dil ki dhadka
Copied from original Song – Procol Harem's 'A whiter shade of pale'
Movie Name - Khel khel mein
Song Name - Sapna mera toot gaya
Copied from original Song – The story of a soldier' from western classic 'The good, The Bad and The Ugly'.
Movie Name - Khel khel mein
Song Name - Ek main aur ek tu
Copied from original Song – nursery rhyme 'If you're happy
Movie Name - Do chor
Song Name - Meri jaan
Copied from original Song – Cliff Richard's 'Fall in love'
Movie Name - Raja Rani
Song Name - Jab andhera hota hai
Copied from original Song – 'The age of aquarius' by The Fifth Dimension
Movie Name - Gurudev
Song Name - Mera kaha manoge
Copied from original Song – Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound machine's 'Oye mi canto'
Suggested Reading -
Short Biography of R. D. Burman –
Wooohhhooo quite a list!
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Damn it!!! Even RD Burman copied songs!! :(
ReplyDeleteNot copied songs inspired. Only few song rest song he made by him not inspired. Inspire or copy paste different. Lot hit songs give new dimenson. He beought fusion india with western song. That is great thing. Research please got all. He is ever great music director.
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god i was always a great fan rather a lover of RD though my all time favorite is Laxmi pyare and now AR Rahman .... but its shameful yaar rd has directly lifted songs some of them are like mehbooba (sholay) even ye mehki mehki( bombay to goa) some more but its hurting and
ReplyDeleteRd not copied inspired by song make new own dimension and creat new things . New rithym from different natural things . He ever got gifted composer india. Please reserch. No one done expetiment in the world. What he done in done in non digital era. He is ourstanding no body like him. Salut him
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R. D.ONLY COPIED IN ALAG ALAG AND 2/3 MORE MAY BE ON THE PRESSURE AND INSISTENCE OF PRODUCERS. THE REST WAS INSPIRED BY A FEW BARS OR LINES AND TOTALLY R.D.IANISED AND IT COMES OUT BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL.THIS HAS BEEN DONE BY ALL .I REPEAT ALL MUSIC DIRECTORS INCLUDING SALIL CHOWDHURY,S,D, BURMAN,SHANKER JAIKISHEN,LAXMI PYARE AND MORE THAN r.d. LEVEL OF ADAPTATION. THE TOTAL INSPIRED TUNES OF R.D. LISTED COMPRISES OF 2.5% OF HIS TOTAL COMPOSITIONS ONLY. EVERYONE FROM SALIL CHOWDHURY,L.P. TO JOSE FLORES,RAVISHANKAR ETC HAIL HIM AS THE GREATEST COMPOSER AND TREND SETTER AND NATURALLY WE HAVE TO AS INDIANS RUN HIM DOWN WITHOUT CHECKING FACTS AND FIGURES WHILE INTERNATIONAL GROUPS,EVEN AS FAMOUS AS KRONOS QUARTET AND MANY OTHERS ARE INSPIRED AND ARE PLAYING R.D. TUNES THE WORLD OVER.
ReplyDeleteDud Rd is greatest music director in the world . No body done best fusion music and lot of innovation and creation rytham from natural source. He inspired not copied. First gather knowledge what is inspiration and what is copy pest. It 'll clear. If you say like this then At rehmab also copy Rd burman. Check and reserch. He is ever greatest music director not in india in world. After reserch you 'll agree.
DeleteChor chor chor. I am aghast. We stole and now we even defend that. Steal once or steal many times. One remains theif
DeleteEveryone is being inspired. Panchamda was a great md. Nothing wrong. Who have commented in English is also a copy. Theye have also lifted the language. All you critics are also theives
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yes agree everyone does it including international groups.
RD is great and he will remain great forever.
@Anonymous Salil Ch. bhi chor tha. itna na mujhse pyar zata
ReplyDeleteSalil Chauwdhary ----> "Dil tadap tadap ke" Film Madhumati, inpired from Polish song see here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiVoIKyZKso
ReplyDeleteA R Rahman ------> " Sona nahin na sahi" Film One two ka four from Albenian folk song see here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzQmkSjLvvE
A R Rehman coppied song video is not found. Can u send me other link of that song.
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Mr. Burman was not inspired by these songs he stole them shamelessly. A lot of his songs have been identified by people as copied and all of them were big hits.and if he can copy this many songs who is to say that his remaining work is his own creation and not theft. Western countries have strict copyright and ip laws if same laws existed in this country then every indian musician, director would be behind bars and bankrupt paying for the damage that their copied works did to the original owners of songs.
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ReplyDeleteHis good songs too are 2.5% !!!!
No hollywood song would be as crap as remaining 97.5%..
He does have some good songs like Amarprem. But he is overhyped. Many more MDs be it HemantKumar, SJ, OP, or even Kalyanji Anandji of his time were much better
Copying happens all over the world. But I know only 1 MD from India whose songs were copied in China, England etc. They were SJ.
ReplyDeleteAs the great Shanker Rsghuvansingh stated ' music is music and no one cam claim anything musical to be sole property. By the way despite all which is said the songs sung by Rafi sahib for RD were RD's greatest successes.
ReplyDeleteI knew RD had copied some of the songs.... as a school kid I used to here ABBA songs in radio. But now I am seeing here, many are straight copy paste.....well...His wife always says he didn't get his due, now I understand why it is so....But still I enjoy his music.....
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i also enjoy his song
Whatever the songs mentioned here themselves were not original enough to qualify as genuinely sans influance that they were derived from some local country folk and traditional rhythm ,etc. Of course, a cultural creation is not subjected to any propriety or patent over its application. By the way, how many beautiful renditions that Pancham had all by himself formulated which were become the point of inspiration had ever been the matter of discussion with the similar energy of interest ... ??
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