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Is it a inspiration or copycat?

Tamil song “Manasu Rendum Pesa” from the movie “Kadhal Konden”.

Now listen to the original tune.

How is it? Keep up the work Yuvan.

I have already posted couple of posts on copycat work in Indian music. This post is again on the same context but the only difference here is international music composers copied our A.R.Rahman’s music.

This video has few songs which are composed by international composers by having A.R.Rahman’s tunes as base.

These tunes are the inspirations copycat work from A.R.R’s music. They haven’t even changed the lyrics.

“Warriors of Heaven and Earth” is one if the masterpiece by A.R.Rahman. This was his first Chinese movie where he gave tremendous music tracks. Though the movie did not go well, A.R.Rahman’s music made a wave in Chinese film industry and the music track of this movie was released as a separate music album, “Between Heaven and Earth”, which contains all BGMs and two songs. I have already written a post, Between Heaven and Earth, on this.

This post is nothing to speak about A.R.Rahman. This is all about other music directors, copycats, who stole his music and used in their movies. First listen to the original track given below. I love this.

Now it is time to listen the copycat work. Though there is a huge list I just posted a few below.

Kalaaba Kadhalan – Niru

Nottam – Jayachandran M

Thagappansamy – Srikanth Deva

Ek Ajnabee – Amar Mohile

Asadhyudu -Chakri

Zinda – Shibani Kashyap

If a tune is catchy then they can have it as a base, inspiration, and produce their own tune. But what I see here is, a copycat work.

“Kalai mattum kandal” song is one of my favourite song. Recently I came across the original source of this song. Yes, this is a Malayalam movie Sainyam starred by Vikram. Listen to the original song below.

Is it an inspiration or a copycat work by Himesh?

Harris Jeyaraj reused his own(?) music in his films(12B, Kakka Kakka and Ullam Ketkume). I don’t know how many more times he is going to use this tune.

Harris Jayaraj copied the song Karu Karu (film-Pachaikili Muthucharam) from the album Westlife. The original song is, “Hit you with the real thing…”

Deva copied this portuguese song. Watch both the original version and copied version. Master in copying.