Copying Music : Pritam
June 13th, 2008 | by Ridhima Suri |It was a rude shock for me today. I am a real music lover and I really care for great tunes. I love hindi music and it was shocking to see some youtube videos today. These videos prove that several of music hits in the belt of famous music composer Pritam have been copied from Chinese, Korean, American originals! So while we always want to buy music to DO THE RIGHT THING, some of my close friends believe that there is no point paying for music that has been copied score-to score!!! I wish to share our sentiment and outrage by sharing links to these videos.
Take a look…
Video One
Video Two..check out ‘Pehli Nazar mein’! This video has many popular songs!!
Video Three
I would not stop loving the songs which I hear day in and day out, but we have to give some credit to the people who compiled these video. I also want to convey one message to Pritam and other reckless copycats..
TRY AND BE ORIGINAL PRITAM…DO YOU HAVE MTVs OF ALL THE COUTRIES AND JUST PICK UP WHICHEVER ONE YOU LIKE TO COPY!!!!! MAN..COOL IDEA TO JUST GO AFTER INDONESIA, KOREA, CHINA…YOU HAVE CERTAINLY BEATEN ANU MALIK DUDE!
UPDATE ON JUNE 14, 2008
This site pulls tracks all the tunes/scores that have been copied by all Indian music composers. I am being harsh on Pritam as he potrays the image of a musician who does a lot of homework (of course, now we know that he does all the homework watching music channels of other countries!!)
http://www.itwofs.com/
Tags: copying music, Hindi, indian music, Movie Reviews, Movies, Music, music review, pritam
5 Responses to “Copying Music : Pritam”
By Priyanka on Jun 13, 2008 | Reply
Hi Ridhima,
I couldnt agree with you anymore. How can he shamelessly copy these songs and get credit for being the most upcoming music director. Shame on him!!
By Swasti on Jun 13, 2008 | Reply
I totally agree with Ridhima and thanks to the person who compiled these videos, to open our eyes , I want to snatch my money back from Pritam
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Feels like we wasted so much money buying all the copied songs.
By Ridhima Suri on Jun 13, 2008 | Reply
Thanks Priyanka n Swasti for backing me on this..thanks Vipul for sharing these videos..i do want a lot of people to read this post…have a mission now
MISSION : EXPOSE PRITAM !
By Sushil on Jun 13, 2008 | Reply
Agree with you even though we don’t have a single composer in India who doesn’t copy or get inspired. This goes way back to Panchamda who use to flick his music from Boney M (Or should I say inspired by Boney M as the composers like to put it)!!
By Vipul Sharma on Jun 13, 2008 | Reply
If we zoom out our focus from Pritam and try to find places where plagiarism has become the core of invention then you will find that this problem is ubiquitous. Generalizing on one culture is wrong but still I think Indian society has accepted plagiarism as a part and parcel of doing business. From very childhood parents generally do not lay stress on invention, discovery and novelty. The main motive is to be best by hooks or by crooks. Our legal system is not strict against cheating, copyrights and patents. It’s very easy to legally get by if one is caught cheating. In fact sometime we (Indians) tag plagiarism as an art and boast it rather than being ashamed of it. This I think is a problem with our society and Pritam is just an example of a perfect member of such society.
Overall it’s a shameful act and should be condemned. I have decided that I will never buy Pritam’s music and since I will never use a pirated version, I guess this is an end of mine and Pritam’s music relationship.