Pritam , the prodigious composer of music for Bollywood movies has been discovered to be an out an out copy cat. Most of his tunes are lifted from songs by international artists from places like Turkey to Korea.

Recently Sony BMG Taiwan has sent a notice to Bollywood Company Tips Industries accusing them of plagiarizing a Wang Lee Hom tune. The record label claims that the song, Zara Zara Touch Me, is a copy of Lee Hom’s Deep In The Bamboo Grove from his 2004 album Shangri-La. The song is featured in the Hindi movie ‘Race’. Pritam had composed the song.

Tips Industries spokesman Mr. I.T Gurusani told The New Paper that the company was investigating the matter and declined to provide any details. Sony BMG Taiwan is seeking NT10 million ($451,193) in damages.

On being accused Pritam said: ‘I’m blamed for plagiarism, but only my producers know that even if I’m working on a cover version, I always insist on permission or copyright.’ However, a check of the Race soundtrack album shows that Lee Hom was not credited for the song. Lee Hom told the Central News Agency in Taiwan that he had heard Pritam’s song and found the melody and arrangement similar to his tune. He pointed out that plagiarism is illegal and because Sony BMG Taiwan owns the song, he supports its decision to sue.

Pritam is no stranger to allegations of plagiarism. In 2006, Indonesian band Peterpan claimed that he copied its song Tak Bisakah (Unable) for the soundtrack of the Bollywood movie, Woh Lamhe . The band claimed that the music was lifted for the song Kya Mujhe Pyaar Hai (I Am Smitten), sung by playback singer KK . Peterpan was not credited in the film’s soundtrack album. Tak Bisakah was originally composed for the soundtrack of a 2005 Indonesian film, Alexandria

In April this year, Pritam was also accused of lifting, note-for-note, a Bengali song for another recent Bollywood film, Bhram. Pritam has by now acquired the crown of being the biggest Copy Cat of Bollywood Music fraternity.

We have come across a list of 40+ songs which are all very very similar to already released songs. At least we never saw any tributes on the label or any credits given to the original songs.

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