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Oh F$%*!! Pritam bought the rights of an original song….
….yes, yes. I know its imposible. Its unbelievable. But it seems he did it. The song in question is jaane kyun tanha ho gaye from Bhram. And the original is ghare pheraar gaan by a bengali band Mohiner Ghoraguli.
According to this report of indiafm, this time Pritam made sure that he is not accused of plagiarism. Here is Pritam’s side of the story
I hate mud slinging, but this allegation is baseless and demeaning. It is being purposely done to make a controversy and promote the film. Yes, the song in question here, ‘Jaane Kyun Tanha Ho Gaye’, is indeed an adaptation but all the necessary paperwork has been done to make it legal. For the original number ‘Ghare Pheraar Gaan’, I myself went ahead and bought the copyright from Asha Audio by spending my own money.”
And there is more…
I guess it keeps happening to me all the time and because I do not open up my mouth, there seems to be an open opportunity for anyone and everyone. I choose to keep quite because I don’t want any dirty linen to be washed in public. A lot happens in the industry and it is always in the best of everyone’s interest that people avoid indulging in cross fires. But this time I had to speak up.”
Dear Mr Pritam, come on, speak up!! We are waiting to hear all the stories, from shikdhoom shikdoom to in dinoo!!! How it happened and why it happened ?? I promise i will be the first one to buy your book if you decide to write down everything someday.
And here is the other version of the story, according to Mumbai Mirror
According to this report,
The story goes that a day before the film’s music release it was discovered that ‘Jaane kyun’, a song from Bhram produced by Magna Films was inspired from a popular Bengali song. On further investigation, it was learnt that the ‘Jaane kyun’ number in the film, which was sung by Sonu Nigam, was a straight lift of a Bengali song, ‘Ghare pheraar gaan’, composed by the Kolkata-based band Mohiner Ghoraguli.
When contacted, Abraham Muzumdar, a member of Mohiner Ghoraguli, says, Yes, Pritam has lifted one of our famous compositions. But we don’t want to discuss this.
A source from Bhram’s production unit says, A year ago, Magna Films had approached Pritam to compose music for their film starring Dino Morea, Milind Soman and supermodel Sheetal Menon. Though he agreed to be part of the film, he kept the producers waiting for a long time. He claimed that he was very busy and hence required time to compose the music. The producers had paid him a hefty amount and finally, after much persuasion, Pritam churned out two songs for the film.
Pritam lifting a tune. Now, thats nothing new. He has been lifting tunes from every possible corner of the world, from korean to arabic and everything in between. And the irony is he is the busiest music director in the industry today. Earlier it was Anu Malik’s domain. But then came the nasal composer/singer/actor and killed Mr Malik completly. I like Himesh for atleast this reason. Am waiting for one more nasal/non-nasal composer to come and kill this man called Pritam. Enough of plagiarism. Laws cant do anything here. He and his tunes just need to vanish. The faster the better!!
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i liked the music of Metro though ….
We are in the third month of the year and there is hardly any good music around. the year looks quite pale compared to 2007. hope some surprises come our way.
No kidding…I hope its true.
I liked the music of Metro too…but later I came to know that most of his tunes are copied…now I am in real dilemma :(…one thing is sure…plagiarism needs to be punished and stopped before it becomes public habit.
Metro was good, and he also did a brilliant job with Jab We Met. He can be good when he goes original, much like Malik. Why they need to search around for ‘inspiration’ is anyone’s guess.
BTW, he’s lifted a few from Mohiner Ghoraguli as also other bengali bands.
doremi …
i saw one show on plagiarism with anu malik and Pritam …the reason they gave was that they are working on n number of projects at a given time …so they don’t have any option but copy …if they have enough time they come with originals …
the song ‘Pehli Nazar Mein’ from Race too is one of those brilliant moments of inspiration which coincidently happens to be a direct reflection of the title song of a popular Korean drama.
Check out the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEdgSDzhv-A
Then they should not be doing that many amounts of films. It is about principles and majority of music directors/producers/composers do not have any.
@HG, real estate is too costly in Bombay.
Living active and good life among filmi circle is costly in Bombay.
Many shopkeepers dont shut down their shops till customers are standing outside. Real filmi life people are not Amrish Puri of DDLJ who closes his shop on the face of SRK and refuse to cater him.
Very few have been there who have kept control on doing anything and everything otherwise more is better there.
BTW, is Preetam husband of yester years actress Pallavi Joshi?
@RK…no..Vivek Agnihotri is married to pallavi joshi. they hav somethinhg in common though. remember chocholate. he directed goal recently.
here is the origianl song…
but, but.. if they did original stuffs, then they would earn more or you saying that copying others earn you more money? One original song cost = 10 copied song cost, roughly, no?
that would be a good interview question to ask a music director like Pritam, ‘what price do you charge for a copied song, original song?’
HG ..he must be charging same for all the songs ….many great music directors have fallen for this …even the great RDB got inspired at times ……if the schedule is tight and they need an instant song …i guess getting inspired is the best option for them…
@HG,
No I was guessing about what you asked, that why they do lot of films then?
Once you reach in Bombay, start living in a rented house then it has a problem, your colleagues may have big early success and may have better life. Then you are in a rat race and try to do as many films as you can.
Actors can also be seen in this trap. Directors, writers all can be seen in this trap.
Control over this desire means living with satisfaction and engage in quality work only. Then where living status and connections can have more weightage than real talent and creative work, there most of people may fall in this trap.
and popularity of songs may not be dependent on original or copied version.
Rather Dhoom Machale was a big hit and it was not original (though YRF took rights also from Tata Young). catchy songs are becoming popular.
Then Anu Malik like composers are there who might have seen time of his father Sardar Malik, who did not do many films. Perhaps like many of his generation people Anu Malik found this as weakness of their fathers. His generation did not respect mere purity but success at any cost.
To be in news is a syndrom. To get as much work as one can get is also a syndrom.
@Phoenixnu(9),
Thanks. Ya I remember Chocolate.
Mummy se na kehna
Dear Phoenix
I am closely observing this issue. Seeing both the sides, pritam’s version (India FM) and mumbai mirror, probably i can sense some technical snags. He made it public that the copyright is bought, and the music label has postponed the release of the CD as it was not intimated to them. The music director’s are not in the loop of the production house and the music label. According to Indiafm news, times music were unaware, the production house did not inform them about copyrights issue. The music director’s job is just the creatives, all the other things like publishing, distribution are taken care by the production house and the music label.
So he’s the scrapegoat of the industry, in my opinion. There are so many parameters involved, like producer’s motives, the sky rocket budgets, so on and so forth. What we see is the surface.
I think, Pritam is doing excellent in merging world music scene into Bollywood. The renditions are everywhere folks, take “Knocking on the Heaven’s door” as an example.
In the end, we all dance to his tunes, and the crowd loves him.
adios.
@ned kashyap…”In the end, we all dance to his tunes, and the crowd loves him”….yes thats the worst thing. i have stopped dancing. this time it may be technical snag but case cant b the same with every other song
“adios “….hopefully more ppl will use the words for everything that is shamelessly plagiarised.
phoenixnu, you have COPIED oz’s style of sensational headlines, writing and mud sliging!!!
@Cy,
???!!!!!!!!
what mud slinging are you talking about???
it is a fact that he has copied… not just this but a whole lot more..
and definition of ‘inspiration’ is not a subjective issue…
plagiarism is plagiarism…
DPac, i said style. So we are right. Plagiarism is Plagiarism.
Pritam rocks !! he copies songs sometimes but what the heck .. i dont find rahman’s original songs appealing nowadays , so i’l go with pritam’s tunes (borrowed or not)
I still like his music. we wouldnt have been introduced to that music if it was not pritam.
Completely agree on your stance regarding plagiarism and thats what even i hate.. I dont see anything wrong if he buys the right from the original composer. In this case since it was a local case, he did it..
would be pay those international stars?? :D
@ RK Rather Dhoom Machale was a big hit and it was not original (though YRF took rights also from Tata Young).
Iam not really sure if this is true and if it is than even TATA YOUNG lifted the tune :)
2 things to consider:
1) if you want to lift a tune why can’t you credit the original. That doesn’t take anything from your own creativity, especially when you’re adding your own distinctive elements to that. I don’t know the legalities or the complications of buying rights and giving credit, but not doing so amounts to downright cheating.
2) A few odd ‘inspirations’ here and there are pardonable, but if 80% of someone’s work is ‘inspired’ that doesn’t say much about that person’s creativity.
Ditto I find some of rehman’s song overrated.. Although i agree that he is a good musician and has some beautiful songs to his credit.
Some of the lyrics were plain stupid..Later all his songs had heavy urdu/pharsi/Arabic dose..
Barso Re - Kosa Bosa . To top it song picturized on a Katiyawadi village belle :D
Didn’t he buy the rights for the song “Bheegi Bheegi..” in Metro as well? That’s another bangla rock song right?
Like someone mentioned here Plagiarism is Plagiarism.
Someone here justified Pritams actions by a statement that he has a lot of projects to handle and it isnt wrong to copy. Well, Illayaraj down south had a tough time once upon a time composing for Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu and I dont think he ever lifted tunes.
Check out the below link to know more about our music directors and their creative efforts :
http://www.itwofs.com/hindi-pritam.html
I agree with Vimal. Plagiarism is plagiarism.
Original source needs to be credited.
Why stop at music though.. films.. story/screenplay should also follow the same pattern.
If in the beginning of the movie you thank several big stars and government dept etc why not thank and give credit to the sources that you have found inspiration from? Also when providing preview of the movies on website site the adequate source. I don’t see how that would hurt the movie. Just like scientific publications where referring to source does not belittle the contribution.
Vikrant,
That would not hurt the movie but when the original source demands a compensation for the same, you would be legally obliged to do the same coz you yourself have accepted that your work was inspired.
I guess this is one of the reason why they dont do it.
Alone,
probably you are right. I don’t know the intricacies of these legal issues in the film industry.
The question stands though: Plagiarism is a problem and we need to find solution/s?
I am thinking abt posting a write up on it.
Vimal: Thank you for posting that link. Everyone please see this: http://www.itwofs.com/hindi-pritam.html
I am aghast. Pritam needs to be boycotted. To have atleast 2-3 ’stolen’ tunes in every album does not reflect the fact that he is too busy. It reflects the fact that he is too lazy and obviously doesn’t have ‘as much’ talent. He makes Anu Malik look like a saint. I am ashamed to have bought his CD’s and am going to get rid of them as a personal act of displeasure. Only illegal downloads from now on.
‘I am ashamed to have bought his CD
@Anand G
Trust me… nothing makes Anu Malik a saint…
And Pritam’s tunes… even if he does copy tunes.. he does seem to bring his own signature into it… my moment of heart break for last year (and I was almost in tears) when I realised (from itwofs.com) that ‘Aao milo Chale’ is copied from ‘Di Belakangku’ by Peter Pan. After much difficulty I got the full original song and I loved it. But, I havent stopped loving Aao milo chale’ either. It gives a whole different ambience; very ethnic and very rock.
So yeah Pritam is not as great as everyone makes him to be, as most dont know he copies music. But he does that from not-so-obvious sources. His lifts has opened my ears to music from around the world. And I am happy about that. Give the guy his due credit, dont trash him.
PS: Shankar Ehsaan Loy; now thats a holy trio. The closest I know that these guys have come to copying is, ‘Doob ja’ part of ‘Move your body’ (from Johnny Gaddar) being taken from what I presume is a Carnatic classical. I heard the same tune being used in the background score for Bharathan’s Vaishali (Malayalam).
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It’s a different thing ’sampling’ tunes for songs, but in the west people who do it always give credit where it’s due. I would respect Pritam more if he would give credit to the original song with each release.
Hi, I’m an Indonesian. A diehard fan of Peterpan, like million others in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Philippines. I’m really pissed off by Pritam’s action of plagiarising Peterpan’s songs. I mean, if he can’t pay for the copyrights, please at least acknowledge that Kya Mujhe Pyaar Hai and Aao Milo Chale were originally Peterpan’s songs. In fact, those are direct lift of Peterpan’s songs, note to note. If only Pritam acknowledges it, we would be more than happy.
I love Indian movies and musics, but to see how ‘unoriginal’ Bollywood has become, really dissappoints me. Anyway, I still think SRK is the most charismatic actor in the world.