Stop, thief! Bollywood up to their old music-stealing tricks again. This time it's from a drama

[dangermousie]

Argh!!!! You know that promo I was linked to, for Bollywood movie Race with Saif Ali Khan and Bipasha Basu?

Well, THEY STOLE THE SONG they are using!!!!!

You know how I know?????

It's the frelling theme song from Delightful Girl Chun-Hyang, a drama that came out in 2005.

ARGH!!!!!

This is one of my fave dramas and songs. WTF?



Race, from 2008:

DGCH from 2005:

Hmmmm. I am going to find out who to write about this, and email Korean producers. I know Bollywood does it all the time, but it doesn't mean I should just let it go when I find it. GRRRR.

Come up with your own damn music! They might think nobody watches both kdramas and Bollywood, but I do.

I AM SO PISSED OFF.

ETA: asked on soompi who to notify in addition to KBS. If nobody knows, will go digging.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I cannot listen as I am at work, but I will believe you.

That that is some truly bizarre theft there...

Uhm...at least you know DGCH is appreciated?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am quite quite mad.

If I have anything to do about it, I am going to notify the copyright holders. Oh, and post about it in soompi, if I can't figure out who to notify.

[jhana87.livejournal.com]

Yep, Pritam, Bollywood's most spectacular plagiariser at it again. He used to mostly nick famous Arabic or Turkish pop tunes (alot of Tarkan and Amr Diab's stuff) but his plagiarising tendencies have turned east recently.

His itwofs page (Bollywood music plagiarism site) is extensive: http://itwofs.com/hindi-pritam.html

They list another example, no. 40 on that page, "Baatein kuch ankahee si" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ura4grIiF90) from Metro is a famous Korean tune sung in My name is Kim Sam Soon.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't know if the people he nicked stuff from have been notified, but I am going to spend the weekend to figure out who owns the rights to DHCH song, and notify them, as well as the producers of DGCH (which is going to be one of Korean networks) of this, and I really hope they go after him.

Thanks for the Kim Sam Soon notice btw, because I think I will do this too.

[ameyadevi.livejournal.com]

ARGGH!! Now i can't even watch the bollywood preview without bad vibes because of that. ugh!! Considering the track record of stealing songs all the time, i'm going to assume they didn't go about this legally, though i'm sure there's a chance? But BLAH! I'm so bummed.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am pretty sure it's not legal, especially since it's Pritam.

There is a chance that the copyright holders will go after him if notified, so I plan to notify them ASAP.

[ameyadevi.livejournal.com]

Yeah. And I hate to have bollywood be given some more bad publicity, especially about this, but he absolutely can't get away with such crap!

[booknerd14.livejournal.com]

ahhhh.. no way?! wtf?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Yup. Ohh, I hope once notified they will go after him like a ton of bricks.

[booknerd14.livejournal.com]

i sure hope that they do something. it's so dumb

[kitsune714.livejournal.com]

That's...uncanny. Wow, talk about fandoms melding and merging.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Icon!!! I need a MG icon!

I really really hope they go after him.

[thelana.livejournal.com]

My favorite rip off is still Sanjay and Priyanka ripping off Dalida (who I understand is a French chanson singer from like the 70s). I thinking, where on earth do they find this stuff?

[fenrir-khan.livejournal.com]

What The?! Come to think of it, most of Dalida's songs would fit right in a Bolly wood movie. It's the sequins and glitter.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

UGH.

No way.

I am seriously considering spending time now not just notifying the DGCH copyright holders but everyone I can find he ripped off. This really PISSES ME OFF.

[plazmah.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's amazing. *shakes head* Oh Bollywood, will you ever learn?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Not really. Not until someone drags them to court and makes them pay. Which I hope happens soon. ARGH.

[fenrir-khan.livejournal.com]

I get it that Bollywood movie-makers have very little scruples when it comes to these things, but that's pushing it. People are bound to catch on when the movie's so recent and featuring very high-profile actors. Oh, I shake my head at you Bollywood!

Thanks for pointing it out BTW.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I am so pissed off at this.

Seriously, I am going to notify the copyright holders and post about it on soompi etc etc. Write your own music or don't write at all, argh!

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Talk about merging two fandoms :)
I guess Pritam is doing it again though now he is looking East. I wonder when he will rip off the first JE band? Will Kitigawa come down on him like one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Will Kitigawa come down on him like one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse?


Oh please, I hope so. One time I will be rooting for JE management.

I wonder if Korean music producers will go after him if notified. I hope so.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

I hope so too. Esp. as the Korean industry have tighten their hold on copyright rights.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL at the icon.

I am going to ask around at soompi who to notify and then...

seriously, I hope they come down on them like a ton of bricks.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

I luv Orinoco :)

Yeah I hope so too. I think the production company should be interested, and the musical producer. I keep my fingers crossed you can get an address.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

If all else fails, I'll write to the TV station that showed DGCH and ask them to pass it on.

I hope I can ruin Pritam's year. I'll do my best to try, anyway. UGH.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Strangely enough Pritam always gets away with this in India, but hopefully the Koreans will sort him out.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Now I am imagining Korean mobsters, LOL :)

Once I get back from the movie theater, soompi it is.

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Hopefully of the scary kind and not good-looking woobies!!!

Have fun at the theatre :)

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

As long as they put a stop to him, I don't care if they woobify themselves in their free time, heh.

We are watching There will be blood, so not sure how fun that would be :)

I love your icon!

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

:)

Don't know the film, but the title suggests lots of bloody scenes :)

[janlake83.livejournal.com]

i have to agree with you on that one.... although it happens soooo often.....

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Maybe this time they will put a stop to it.

[janlake83.livejournal.com]

maybe.... but who knows...

[prismatic-star.livejournal.com]

Wow.. I'm guessing Pritam is notorious for plagiarising before but India's not doing anything about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pritam#Plagiarism

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Well, maybe someone will drag him to court. Ugh.

[autumn-yaar.livejournal.com]

Ugh, its so stupid! They really can't keep doing this.. I hope they pursue this, and wow, they even plagarized Dalida.. ugh.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there is any composer they left undisturbed.

[fivil.livejournal.com]

Being that this is Pritam, it doesn't surprise me. I think the man ought to be seriously banned from Bollywood music industry. You'd think he'd have stopped after his noticed album Gangster was 99% ripped off from Turkish/Middle-Eastern songs but no, he just keeps going.

One of the songs on the Race soundtrack is "Asian R'n'B mix". OH THE IRONY.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Has he ever written anything of his own?

I seriously hope KBS goes after him. I mean, that's a lot of nerve. it's not only a new drama, it's a psycho popular one.

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

LOL. Man. Indonesian dramas are so much like this. They've copied all sorts of Korean and Japanese doramas. I never watch 'em but apparently some productions were sued or something. Dude. Originality is a rare find these days :D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL. I hope this guy gets sued too.

[zaza-tk87.livejournal.com]

this is not a new thing but I agree with you that this shouldn't just be left like that.

I love 'Mann' but most of the songs are not original. they also love to copy english songs example. In Jab we met, one of the song is stolen from an Indonesian song.

that's just 1% of everything. I don't know if I should be amused or angry. lol

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Mann too? Yikes. Why am I not surpised.

And JWM too? Ugh.

[syliasyliasylia.livejournal.com]

omfg!!!!! I loved that music theme in the Delightful Girl Chunghyan so much!!! They should have payed for the rights of the song if they wanted to adapt it or something!!!! *GRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR*

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

I know. I am so mad.

[wasabi-girl1.livejournal.com]

http://in.movies.yahoo.com/news-detail/18780/Pritam-visits-Korea-RACE-audio.html

[ameyadevi.livejournal.com]

One of my indian friends just posted the hindi video going I LOVE THIS SONG.. so i ended up ranting at him and showing him the original vid. Did you ever get a hold of anyone?

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

No, not yet. i should try emailing more people.