A Malik vs Pritam who is bigger chor and better MD

Anu Malik Vs Pritam 😆: both have a long history of plagiarism but who is a better composer and a bigger chor?

INDIAN MUSIC COMPOSERS : "INSPIRATION" OR "COPYING"?

Strangely enough, as Mrinalini has been posting on youtube and copyright issues, I came across these youtube clippings of an interview dealing with the alleged "plagiarism in the Indian music industry". I'll briefly describe these interviews, not least because one is not certain when Youtube is likely to be put on notice that these are copyrighted clips.

These clips are from an interview that was broadcast on CNBC TV 18 (talk about copyright and youtube!!) by the hard hitter, Karan Thapar. And the interviewees are Anu Malik and Pritam Chakraborty, both of whom are music directors/composers, Mr Pravin Anand, Managing Partner, Anand and Anand and the country's leading IP attorney (and my ex-boss), and Karthik S of the itwofs.com fame.

The interview starts off with almost all the interviewees admitting that copying tunes has been prevalent in the Indian music industry'not just now but even as far back as 50 years ago.

Case in Point: the movie Hatrick, where one of the tune is allegedly lifted from Harry Belafonte's 'the woman is smarter'. Of course, when Pritam is quizzed about this, he shifts the blame to Usha Uthup. Both he and the director of the film, Ronnie Screwvavla (UTV) also insist that these tunes constitute 'generic' 'Calypso music.

Similarly, Anu Mallik admits that he has lifted tunes--but tries to wriggle out stating that he was forced to do this by the Director/Producer of the movie who liked a particular tune. When quizzed further by the aggressive Thapar, he admits that it was only in one or two cases, where a Director/Producer has insisted that he do this.

As for Kartik S and how he came to tracking the lifting of music tunes (that served as 'inspiration' for Indian music composers), he states that his dad would tune in to Spanish and Arabic stations and find tunes that were similar to the ones composed by stalwarts like OP Nayyar.

source http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html

Originally posted by: Your King Anu

King Anu

Kings don't use their brain too often. Others do that for them.

Originally posted by: Your King Anu

Kings don't use their brain too often.

Originally posted by: Indradhanush

that is evident, thanks for responding.

I think Anu because his career graph in Bollywood is longer than Pritam..

may be by the time Pritam reach Anu's level he may become Mahachor.. who knows

Dono chor aur maha chor hai. I think Pritam might have been inspired by AM 😉 Pritam thought if AM can lift and get away for so many yrs than why can't I.

I think the big chor is Pritam the Great.

I think d maha chor is Anu Malik beause he is in the industry from last 20 yrs or so. Pritam is quite new and he will take some time to get into Anu's status of Maha chor😆

i think pritam is a bigger chor but anu is a pathetic chor. when anu lifts a tune...it is soooo obvious! i mean come on who lifts happy birthday and fur elise?😕😆 when pritam lifts (which I think is 95% of the time), he does it in a smarter way (like most other composers of bollywood have been doing till date). its just that in this day and age, that's not smart enough to escape plagarism charges. 😛

i remember once in srgmp before C-05 pritam came as a judge. in the judges choice round, he sang some foreign songs and asked the contestants to recognize the (inspired) hindi version of that song and sing it. (they were all lifts of RDB btw). then he said that RDB's lifts sound better than the original and that RDB is his favourite composer. unfortunately he has only tried to emulate the lifting style of his idol and not the actual composing style.