YouTube has revolutionized the entertainment industry and it is slowly becoming a verb the same  way “google” became a verb. Trailers, TV serials and advertisements  are created and broadcast exclusively on YouTube. The fundamental success of YouTube lies in the fact that it democratized creativity.

Anyone with a handy cam/movie camera can produce and broadcast his/her creative production and reach so many audiences with minimal cost and time. If the content quality is good, there is definitely going to be an audience.

But if there is one group that must be unhappy with YouTube, it must be the Indian Music composers.

Why?

Because if they compose a song which is plagiarized from some obscure music video from another corner world, and if they think no one is going to find that, they are sadly mistaken. It does not take much time for someone to bring it to the notice of fellow YouTube viewers. It can also work to their advantage. If someone from another part of the world ripped off their songs, they will come to know soon.

In this series, I plan to bring together some of the popular Indian songs and similar songs from across the globe. I do not know which one is the original and which is an imitation (or inspiration, as some of our movie industry pros would like to say).

Here comes the first 3 pair of songs. Come back for more. Enjoy!!

Click “Version” below to reach the YouTube link

1. Song – Ya Ali; Movie – Gangster

Version A - From the film Gangster

Version B – Arabic Version

2.  Song- Kaho Na Kaho; Movie – Murder

Version A -From the film Murder

Version B – Arabic Version

3. Song- Dil Samandar; Movie-Garam Masala

Version A – From the film Garam Masala

Version B - Turkish Version

PS: If you come across similar songs, please bring it to our notice. We’ll acknowledge your contribution and publish it, if appropriate.

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Frequently, I hear from people, official or the unofficial surveys say the crime rate has been growing in India and outside India. When we think of us as a race living as a civilized creature on the earth from many centuries, it surprises one that let alone overcoming this natural tendency to commit crime we as are falling for it more.

Is the crime from much more primitive parts of the brain and genes than of being civilized and organized in a society? Or maybe, we are failing to find a cure to this disease and all we are doing in the form of conviction is just a band-aid and not a cure.

In simple terms, the system should have tamed the man not to crime, like it has to wear clothes, live in houses etc. Nobody tells one to do all this. We do follow these untold rules of being clothed, cultured etc. It has grown into our genes. Not only those but many other rules of being civilized are embedded in us though the ages.

Why did it fail in the case of crime? Why are we not able to forget the rule of the forest “Survival of the fittest”?

May be it is our approach towards it which is failing. May be we are trying to target the criminal, not the crime. Punish the criminal, but the crime still lives in him, in most of the cases. Until he realizes on his own, he still lives the crime.

Are we helping them realize? How many people are not returning to their profession after being convicted once? The roots go into our perception. We still don’t completely judge a crime by its motive, but its deed. This makes a lot of difference. It is simple, if I slap you, there might be two reasons for it. One being I’m angry and the other there might be a bee on you cheek. They are not same. This is definitely considered while judging a crime, however not sufficient.

For example if a man kills the other, he is hanged to death or imprisoned for 14 years in India. Consider a guy who killed his relative for money, a guy who kills for money (A gangster or goonda) and a terrorist. In the society or public’s eyes, these people are hated in the ascending order.

When you consider the motive, it should be the other way round. Because one thinks that he is killing for god, the other for money and the other for still more trivial reason. We just hate or punish them in the angle of threat. A single guy less harmful to the society compared to a gangster and him to a terrorist.

The punishment is decided based on how much danger does the accused pose to the society. It is more or less same like caging a tiger as it is a danger. Even when someone like them is convicted, very less is done to get the thought of crime from the criminal. And irrespective of his status of mind, he is let go after a stipulated time.

In this context I remember famous lines of Sri Sri, a popular Telugu poet, from Mahaprasthanam.

Ee Desha charitra choosina emunnadhi garvakaranam

Narajathi charitra samastham parapeedana parayanatvam,

Narajathi charitra samastham parasparaaharaNodyogam,

Narajathi charitra samastham raNarakthapravaahasiktham.

“History of any country has nothing in its pride.

Human history is all about people causing distress to each other,

Killing each other and

Bloodshed of wars.”

A person should be stopped from committing crime more by his sense than the fear of being prosecuted. Until then the history remains blood stained and the future fearful.

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