It was with some interest that I had been following the litigation between the Roshan family (Hrithik, Rakesh and Rajesh) and music director, Ram Sampat (http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1159449, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/My_conscience_is_clear_Rakesh_Roshan/articleshow/2947403.cms). Sampat filed a case against the Roshans, alleging that the music in the title song of the movie Krazzy4 was plagiarised from the tune he had penned for […]
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I remember the not-so-good old days when comic relief in the Bollywood movie came in the shape of the village drunk, the weirdo villain, a horribly racist depiction of a ‘Madrasi’ or a Goan, the effeminate side-kick or, at worst, a soft-target disabled person. The tired old ‘jokes’ such alleged comedians traded in rarely went […]
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Have I just grown a little long in the tooth or do others notice the decline in the quality of lyrics in Bollywood songs these days? I thought we’d seen (and heard) the worst in the Bappida 80s and the Nadeem-Shravan 90s. But apparently, there still are depths to be plumbed by Bollywood lyricists. Now, […]
