I wouldn’t be surprised if they force the “Bombay Rockers” to change their name too. 

There would be hardly anyone who has been living in Mumbai and not come across the Shiv-Sainiks. Their fetish for their choice of language in Maharashtra is well known too. So much so that they can go to any extent to have their word.

Now, I can understand one’s love for his homeland, his state and his mother tongue. I myself am a Maharashtrian, and love my language. But you don’t see me publishing this blog in Marathi, do you ?

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Sounds good ?

Some of the sainiks, however, have had a special fetish for the name “Mumbai“. They had the name of Bombay changed to Mumbai. Then “Bombay Central” was changed to “Mumbai Central”. And now, the sainiks are behind the immensely popular school, Bombay Scottish. Apparently, they want the school to change the name to Mumbai Scottish. 

If they have their way here too, although I so hope they don’t, let’s just take a look at what could be next in line.

• Bombay Stock Exchange
• Bombay Gymkhana
• Bombay Duck ( the fish )
• Bombay to Goa ( the movie )

In the changing/Trial rooms of all Shoppers Stop outlets in the city.

Yes, I was at one of the shopper stop outlets today ( shopping for some formal shirts for my upcoming last-year board practicals ) when I saw Mr. Roshan.

What I saw was, Mr. Hrithik Roshan, sitting on chair, with a Remote in his hand, watching with BIG ROUND eyes.  And the poster, in big bold words read, ” I’m watching you ”

The above posters are  advrts of TATA Sky put up in all Shopper Stop outlets. In the Trial rooms.

So, what are they trying to convey ?

How about there’s a poster in his bathroom,Lau Prasad Yadav “watching” him?

Oh well,

Here’s Fifty Paise to the ad agency or the uncreative minds behind this. Find a better place.

Plagiarism: Its is the act of taking someone else’s creation, and passing it off as one’s own.

Now, quite frankly, how many times do we come across such cases in our very own Bollywood. It’ll probably take me a max of 2 minutes to list down atleast 10 songs that have been “inspired” from other songs. Yeah right !!

There have been many ( though they deny it ) composers who have been in the news for songs they say are original works, though there are many pages on the www that list out the truth behind this.

And who, you may ask, is the newest addition to the Wall of Shame ?

Meet Mr. Pritam Chakraborthy, better known in the industry as just “Pritam(wiki:Here)”. Haven’t heard about him ? Just goto the Wiki and read on. Here’s what the first line reads.

Pritam Chakraborty, generally known simply as Pritam, is a Bollywood copycat music director and composer.

Now, THATs what I call an Introduction.

Do scroll down to see his list of plagiarised songs.

A good friend and fellow blogger, Amit has done an extensive and quite an impressive research @ his Movie Blog “MovieTonic” .

In a multi-part series, he explores and reveals a great detail about the songs ( the copy and the original ) in the series.

Amit Says:

I really like Pritam’s Music, but did not know he was such a big Copy Cat.

I happened to have a look at the First part of this Multipart series, and I’m shocked

In this first part, he talks about the following 5 songs that were seen recently in the bollywood circuit, and did pretty well.

1. Shikdum from Dhoom2
2. “I Miss You Every Day” from Kya Love Story Hai ***New***
3. lamha Lamha from Gangster
4. Tu Hi Meri Shab Hai from Gangster
5. Wicket Bacha from Hatrick

He’s done a great research ( @ Google and Youtube ) and has provided videos of the songs, both Original and the copy.

Great work done Amit… we’re waiting for the future parts.

And also,

Here’s fifty paise to Music composer(read: Stealer) Pritam, either to make his OWN creations, or hiding the original songs that he is “inspired” from. ( Cause I doubt he’s got a creative mind )