Plagiarism and tamil music seem to go hand in hand nowadays.. A lot of songs we hear nowadays seem to be direct rip offs from songs of other regional languages or some foreign soundtrack.. All this discussion even without getting Deva into the picture, he truly has to be the king of plagiarism..Yuvan Shankar Raja seems to be bit by the plagiarism bug too.. Some of his 'Original' numbers are
1.The song 'Walking Through The Rainbow' from '7G Rainbow Colony' is a direct copy from the background score of the movie Johnny staring Rajnikanth which ironically had his father illayaraja scoring the music.
2.'Jalsa' from 'Chennai 600028' is a copy of a song from the movie 'Jothi' or something.. Gau knows the name..
3.The music in the initial trailers of Chennai 600028 is a slightly indianised version of 'I'm Shipping Up to Boston' by 'Dropkick Murphys', The Departed theme music.
4.Not sure if the citibank music that comes on raaga is a copy from Pudhupettai or vice versa.. Someone told me the citibank is the original.. Not sure of that one..
5.The first 30 seconds of the song 'Yemmadi Aathadi' is a copy of 'yeah' by 'Usher'
Harris Jeyaraj too has a few such credits to his name..
1.The song 'June Pona' from 'Unnaale Unnaale' is a copy of the song 'One Love' by 'Blue'
2.The song 'Paatuku Paatu' from vetri is a direct rip off, no changes made even of the MJ hit 'Billie Jean'
What is more irritating than all this is the background scores on trailers.. I've lost count of the number of times the tracks from 'Warriors Of Heaven And Earth' by 'A.R.Rahman' have been used in these trailers.. I mean, if the composers can't compose a one minute musical bit for a trailer, he certainly doesn't deserve all the credit that he gets..
Tributes to other songs are fine.. Quite a few good ones recently..
1.'Ennama Kannu' in Thiruvilayadal Arambam
2.'Madai Thirandhu' by 'Yogi B & Natchathra'
3.'Ennadi Muniyama' in 'Vaathiyar'
I'm sure there are more cases of plagiarism in songs.. If any of you can remember any, let me know..
4 comments:
parts of Pogadhe from deepavali from Prefab Sprout - Cowboy dreams :p
the title track of pattiyal is a direct rip off from the title track of a porn movie (title track in the sense.. the music which comes when the names are displayed @ the beginning of the movie.. )..
and one more thing.. i didnt watch that movie :) .. my friend gave me this info.. he just stopped watchin the porn flick once he heard tht music.. :P
Yuvan shanker raja is a clever man..
i hate dis guy! takes credit jus by modifyin some english tracks
chek dis link out...http://www.itwofs.com/tamil-yuvan.html
shit.. unbelievable..
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