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….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 …

Since Its that time of the year when everyone looks back & gives their list of things. I’m gonna do a do a series on them. I’ll start with the best things I discovered this year but which may not necessarily belong to this year. These are books i loved, movies I discovered, music I loved, youtube videos that entertained me.

Books -

1) Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone - Rajiv Chandrasekaran
http://tinyurl.com/2as35t
This is a must read for anyone who wants to know what & how things went wrong in the 1st 3 years of the war. Chandrasekaran was the Baghdad bureau chief for the Washington Post. The reason this book tops my list is because its a very objective account of what happened. Its not a leftist journalists rants against the stupidity of this administration. Infact Paul Greengrass(Bourne Ultimatum, United 93) is going to make …

The problem with reality is there is no music happening in the background, which is why music like this really appeals to a musically starved soul like me who looks forward to good Hindi film music. Soothens me big time. :)
I can never get over the music of Omkara..How on earth did this man have the ability to make this film and on top of that make such fantastic music? I can’t even decide which my favorite track is because there is a song which does justice to every mood in this album. It is awesome music. I think Vishal Bhardwaj is the most underrated Music composer in the industry.

OMKARA - The title track will make all real men stand up and feel good about themselves. All the others will want to be real men. The base and the snares and the feel of the …

This is probably the best video I’ve played with. Amazing stuff and extraordinary content. I’m talking about “Planet Earth” series. It’s among the best I’ve seen from BBC. “Space” is the other series that I liked. I’m currently watching “Long way round”, “Cosmos”, Adam Curtis’ collection (which includes “The Century of the Self” and “The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear”). I wish I had even more time. Talk about greed. I am addicted to the documentary mini-series because it is more comprehensive. And one of the addictions which I don’t mind. I can strongly say that documentaries are less time consuming than books, journals and wiki together but more ‘precise’, it’s the best informative source. You get to know different things from ‘Evolution of Universe’ to ‘roots of Consumerism’.

First, I had thoughts of making a fan video for the whole documentary Series. But …

A.r Rehman is my favourite music director from the Indian film industry before Himesh Resham wali aawaz..

I heard his Pray for me brother and i was confused.
Pray for me bro is dedicated to inspire ppl to eradicate poverty and to give hope from oppression,injustice and cruelity due to foreign forces or their own cruel leaders,those deprived of love,to fill a void,and to those tht are searching to be kind ..blah blah..

I am sorry but i am not convinced that this song can carry such a huge load..

Bhai log aur behno dekho when i hear a song which is for the poor and for the cold , i want it to inspire me enough to atleast borrow a car once with a good system , play the song , go and buy bread buns and blankets from Hauz Rani market and go crying to Sai baba mandir to give it …

Thanks to PFC reader Gattu, we have on audio, Gulzar, Asha Bhosale and R.D. Burman discussing the song “Tere Bina… Jiya Jaye Naa” (from the Movie Ghar?)…

Artist: Various Artists

Album: Pancham Beats

Title: Tere Bina Jiya Jaye Na

Description: Asha Bhosale, R.D. Burman and Gulzar discussing the song Tere Bina…

Length: 1:45Tere BinaTere Bina

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Thanks to Pratap, a PFC fan and cine fanatic… we on PFC now have a file to play the song …. Dil Dhoondta Hain… but with a difference…

The recording of this song is in Madan Mohan’s voice where he is giving it different tunes… than the one which eventually got selected…

No Gulzar fan can afford to miss playing this song… Dil Dhoondta Hain, is like the initiation into the Gulzar club for every newbie…

I started listening to this song in the late seventies on those large LP records, then each time the movie “Mausam” was played on television, then amongst friends, those rooftop nights with alcohol and hostel buddies… many more memories… Dil Dhoondta Hai is and still remains one of those rare gems that has been equally appreciated and liked by people spread over 3 decades of generations…

The voice is Madan Mohan’s. The file, according to Pratap came …

During the hip-shaking days of Disco, a number of our music directors tried their hands to produce pure sounds of this genre. Apna own Sone ki Dukaan (Jewelry Shop) Bappi Lahiri was in the fore-front with soundtracks like Disco Dancer, Karate etc.

But no director was able produce a pure disco song that could give competition to the western stuff. There were always certain flaws that you would find in the songs. The song would fall off after a good intro, the chorus not might be so jandaar, excessive use of violin, singers would not be able to provide the energy or the melody was not catchy enough.

Before the launch of the album under spotlight in this post, only Kalyanji Anandji had produced a flawless Disco song for Qurbaani. Or so I thought till the time I did some back-ground research on the composer of the album in spotlight. …