A quote was Entourage, the famously slick HBO show was " Quentine Tarantino always steals from the best". I don't know about whether Tarantino steals from the best or not,or whether he even steals or not, but Tarantino movies are still good to watch.
A.R.Rahman, a reported alumni of my school, quoted repeatedly as the Mozart of Madras has also been suspect of stealing his music from others. This is not from just any source but from the great cynic of my time, the mercurial royalty with whom I had was honored to have contact with, henceforth heralded as the "Prince of Calicut" or simply to those who loved him as "That cali bastard". I don't even know if this allegation was true also, but then this allegation was from the person who said he could get the CBSE board exam papers from Arunachal Pradesh. But recently I have noticed, Rahman songs are repetitive. His two latest movies Jaane Tu Na Jaane Na(Hindi) and Sakkarakati(Tamil) both had songs which seemed to me to be mere or part repetition from his earlier compositions. The Hindi songs were similar to songs that had been earlier composed in Tamil movies and vice versa.
1)Pappu Can't Dance: Apparently its inspired or similar in some way to Girlfriend from Boys. I didn't quite get that, but it was quoted from one of the music reviews from indiaglitz.com
2)Nazerein Milana: This one I am sure has a strong inspiration from a Tamil song. Which that song is I haven;t quite reached a conclusion for. It have a fleeting remembrance of the actress who was in the tamil counterpart song. I have an intuition that it is "Athan Varuvaga" from Dum Dum Dum but couldn't find the exact connection. Also Dum Dum Dum has a different music director.
3) Naan Epodhu: A exact copy out of " Yeh Rishta Kya" from Meenaxi
4) Chinname: Again exact copy from Meenaxi(I don't think the Tamil movie is a remake of Meenaxi)
5) Elay Ulagam: A take off RooBaroo from Rang De Basanthi according to indiaglitz. I am not quite sure about this either and also indiaglitz is not really good review site.
On the contrary the jazz song in Jaane Tu "Tu bole Mein Bolo"was very impressive. I thought it would be very similar to the one in Jillunu Oru Kadhal was it sounded original to this limited music critic. Apart from being Jazzy, their ended the similarity. "Tu Bole" sung by Rahman(I think) has a more traditional jazz song outlook with stops and lyrics which are just string up together, while "JOK" was a mix of Jazz and the more traditional type of instruments that you might expect in Indian music.
Just so that you know, even though the songs were similar, inspired or repeated they all sounded pretty good. The "Paapu cant Dance" being a classic especially with the song having pretty much the resume of the person strung up to music.
P.S. I may quite be making up all these similarities because of the fact that I am quite jobless which seems to have heightened my other senses.Damn
On Valentine’s Day
3 weeks ago

2 comments:
'the cali bastard' - good memories. that cracked me up
haha i was cracking up when i wrote that
Post a Comment