As per reliable sources, the producers of a high profile film made last year are in a state of panic. The reason? One of the songs from the film has been a straight copy from a foreign album. It is almost sure by now that the producer will have to cough up some lakhs as compensation.
The foreign company has taken up the issue and there is a great debate happening on who is going to shoulder the responsibility. The music director, when last heard, is living in a state of shock!
But then, most of the tunes that are being presented in Malayalam have inspirations elsewhere. A prominent singer turned composer had shamelessly copied songs from an Egyptian singer’s album, which became some kind of a joke on the various social networking sites.
All these are happening at a time when plagiarism is regarded as something of an accepted trend in Malayalam. Malayali directors are finding inspirations not just from Hollywood as they did earlier, but also from other language films including Chinese and Latin American ones.
The new trend in Malayalam is to copy story ideas from Bollywood. After a prominent Bollywood director’s thriller was copied and made into a horrible Malayalam film recently, another film from the same director is getting a ‘new treatment’ in Malayalam of late. The new film is nearing completion now.
And surprisingly, the makers of these Malayalam films pose themselves as great talents even after all these shameful acts of plagiarism. But the real panic happens for them when the makers of the original seek legal ways against piracy.
Or ask the music directors, who make it a point to teach young singers how to sing perfectly, in some popular reality shows on TV.
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