Plagiarism or Inspiration or Coincidence or Whatever

Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na (A.R.Rahman) - Death Race (Paul Haslinger)

Irumbu Kottai Murattu Singam (Sabesh-Murali) - Pirates of the Carribean (Hans Zimmer)

Madharasapattinam (G.V.Prakash) - Troy (James Horner)

Memoirs of Geisha for Poo

S.S.Kumaran who made a promising debut with his music for 'Poo' disappoints high time by plagiarizing for the movie's background score. Background score of 'Poo' is mostly filled with different versions of the melodies of the songs, especially I like the Maari cries, the sad version of 'Choo choo mari' song in a kid voice is a good idea. As I was watching the movie, I also sensed a chinese influence in the background score in the choice of instruments and at times melodies too. There is this scene where Maari runs to give Thangaraasu his favourite Kalli Pazham, and there is a dramatic score that runs in the background and it is in this scene S.S.Kumaran blatantly lifted 'Memoirs of Giesha' main theme (one of my personal favourite John Williams Score) and used it when Maari is stuck by the thorns in a tree. It matched quite well for the mood of that moment and with it way it was seamlessly clubbed with the other part of the piece, it seems S.S.Kumaran consciously did it to achieve greater impact. While his intentions are good, the means of achieving is highly unethical.

Memoirs of Geisha - Becoming a Geisha





Poo (Geisha theme starts at 01:00)

Answer for Background Score - 38

This piece is from Anjathey. Background Score composed by Sundar C.Babu. I was so impressed by the intriguing background score by Sundar C.Babu for Anjathey but listen this

Signs – First Crop Circles

Dasavatharam Background Score

Devi Sri Prasad talks about his experience while scoring background music for Dasavatharam. And in the interview, he confirms that he did background score for the Trailer too and that clears the doubts I had.

While it is good to know that people understand the significance of background score in movies and have spent nearly 1 month to score background music for the movie, I don't understand why Devi Sri Prasad has not found few minutes in that one month to score a original piece for the first one minute of the trailer.

He also says that he has used a lot of orchestral music and choir in the second half of the movie and I hope that they aren't straight lifts from Hollywood movies.

Shire in Nepali

Srikanth Deva copies the beautiful Shire theme from Lord of the Rings – The fellowship of the ring soundtrack (composed by Howard shore) and uses it as love theme in the movie Nepali. He has just ripped off the track from the CD played it in the background.

Shire Theme -

Howard shore recorded the complete score of Lord of the rings trilogy and released 3 complete recordings one for each movie. A total of 135 pieces from all three movies includes lot of extended and unheard or unused music pieces in the movies. If you are a die-hard fan of Lord of the rings trilogy and orchestral music, your life will be incomplete if you don’t listen to these complete recordings.

Plagiarim or Inspired?

Listen and decide it for yourself.

Illayaraja - First Interlude piece of the song 'Manathilae Oru Paatu' from Thaayam Onnu



Yuvan Shankar Raja - Katradhu Tamizh Love Theme

Clever Sabesh-Murali

Watch this Video (I couldn't emded the video here) and listen to the background score piece from 'Thavamai Thavamirunthu'. When I was watching the movie for the first time, I was surprised by the beauty of the piece. It sounded little different for the earthy visuals and yet I liked it and I was surprised that such a piece came from Sabesh-Murali. Recently, i found that this is the celtic theme of the movie 'Last of the Mohicans'. Even Sabesh-Murali's recent movie 'Ammuvaaghiya Naan' had a CD rip-off of an entire Yanni song as the background score for the scene in which Parthiban searches for Ammu.

7G,Rainbow colony and Michael Nyman connection

Theme from the movie 'The Piano' composed by Michael Nyman



A theme cue from the movie '7G, Rainbow Colony' by Yuvan Shankar Raja



one of many reasons why I can never keep Yuvan up in the list with IR and ARR....

More to come in this 'Plagiarism' section