Till now I was in impression that Annu Malik is the only one who is into ripping the songs directly but today I got to know that, every music director of Indian Film Industry is into ripping the songs straight from the original tracks. (Ofcourse few directors like A.R. Rahman, Sandeep Chowta are not included in this)

Let me start from the recent movies…

Krissh - Rajesh Roshan, how many liked the song Dil Na Diya? Well, tune is lifted from the original song Ceddin Deden by Ottoman Military Project

Okay, now let’s talk about superhit soundtrack of Gangster, Pritam is the music director. I guess Ya Ali was the best song of the soundtrack….but wait…..it’s a ripped one from the band called Guitara, the original song name is Ya Ghali and 2nd best song of the movie was Bheegi Bheegi, oh wait, this one is also ripped….this one is from a Bangla band called Mohiner Ghoraguli, the song is Prithibi, one more, Lamha Lamha is ripped from Pakistani singer Waris Baig’s track Kal Shab Dekha
How many liked Fanaa music (Jatin Lalit) ? Specially the song, Chanda Chamke, it was ripped from one of their songs Yara Yara from Hum Tum…but, was that original? NO, it is a ripped song too…the original song, al-Samra Wil Beyda is by Miami Group

Few more popular hit songs which are ripped from other songs, Urzu urzu durkut from Yahaan (Shantanu Moitra) is ripped from the 1993 track Dulaman by Altan, Gela Gela from Aitraaz (Himesh Reshammiya) is lifted from R Kelly’s song, Thoia Thoing.

The list is endless and these guys are never going to stop ripping songs from the original ones. I must start listening to Arabic music, 90% of the songs are ripped from Arabic music.

Good Reads: Inspired Indian Film Songs, I2FS Yahoo Group, India FM forum

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May 10, 2006 |
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“China”, when we hear this word, first thing we think is, cheap and low quality. Well, Rediff and IndiaFM almost made me believe that this movie will also be like cheap chinese products. After reading reviews on these sites, I had almost madeup the mind that, this movie is going to be one of the worst movies of Indian Cinema. (That’s what rediff had quoted it by giving 1 star) But when I watched the movie, I was trying to find what in the movie was worst….the movie was pretty good, infact…It wasn’t a super hit kind of movie but it is definitely, “one time watch” movie.

The story is about murder of Casino owner Sonia Chang (Isha Kopikar)….let Mid Day say it in a better way….

The thriller specialists, Abbas-Mustan, return with what they’re best at � a murder mystery. Sonia (Isha) lives in a place called China Town, in Goa, and runs a casino called Hollywood.

When her son goes missing, she puts out an advertisement offering a cash reward of Rs 25 lakh to anyone who can locate her son. Raj (Shahid), a struggling actor, and runaway bride, Priya (Kareena) meet the kid by chance and agree to become partners in the booty.

But when they finally reach Sonia’s mansion late at night, they find her dead. Enter the suave police inspector (Akshaye) who’s hell bent on solving the case.

Nobody is spared; everyone’s a suspect in this whodunnit including other characters like Paresh Rawal, Johnny Lever, Tanaaz Curim, Payal Rohatgi and Upen Patel.  And as the film unravels, the needle of suspicion keeps shifting from one to the other.

The movie also includes return of Johny Lever in A grade movies….and he was just too good….many of the scenes in the movie will make you laugh loudly…(atleast they did to me)

On the acting part, all the actors have acted well, no overacting and all. Johnny Lever and Paresh Rawal were the best part of the movie. Upen Patel, it was his debut movie but the sad part was, his voice was dubbed. (For the simple reason, his hindi sucks like hell)

On the music part, well,  Himesh Reshammiya haters might not like it but the music is a hit..specially the Ashiqi song…other songs are also ok ok….

Overall movie was good, I would give it 2.5 stars out of 5

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May 6, 2006 |
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Note: This Search Engine Optimization Tutorial for Newbies…

Well, before starting this, I want to make one thing clear, this is total basic tutorial which makes you understand the basics of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), search engine optimization is more than page optimization, it depends on many factors like link building, quality of incoming links etc…

So let’s start with the basic….

What is search engine optimization?

It’s a magic which no one can understand, kidding ;)

It is a simple logic which any kid can understand….

It works like this: for a human being, to become popular he needs to do something extra ordinary so that whole world can know about it and he becomes known face in the world from nowhere

So same logic applies for websites also, to make your website popular first you need to do something good so that other people know about it, for example: you have a genuine site with good content and once people know about it they talk about the site (provide links, give your site links in forums, sites, blogs etc…

So search engine optimization is a process of taking something extra ordinary out of your site and let the whole world know about it, it’s kind of makeover for your site.

Now to make your site known to public you will have to do few things on your site….so let me start explaining things one by one in short…

Following things are important part of your site and are helpful for your ranking….

Read more…

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May 4, 2006 |
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You must have heard of great pakistani bands like Strings, Jal, Fuzon, Junoon etc…but very few people know about this great band Aaroh…they have been around for so long but not very well promoted in India….

Couple of years back they were in India for promotion of some Sanjay Datt starrer movie (I think it was Rakht), they had sung / composed the title rock song of that movie…. but unfortunately it didn’t work…and after that the band disappeared from India…

I got to know about this band in late 2003, they had just released their album, Sawaal, Hindi rock with solid lyrics…I really enjoyed all the songs of that album and I still listen to that album many times…it is one of my favorites…
After that, for 3 years….I did not hear anything from that band…but now they are back with their new single Pyaar Ka Jaal…again…very good song and is must download….

You can get the song from their site officially, here is the link

If you are fan of Hindi Rock, then you must grab the copy of their album Sawaal and if you are hater of Hindi Rock, give this album a try, I am sure you will start loving it…

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May 2, 2006 |
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