Pritam – the (copied) music sensation of India !

Sample this – a music director, renowned for his variety, and a string of hit songs -
1. Ya Ali ( Film Gangster ),
2. Bheegi Bheegi ( Film Gangster ),
3. Shikdum ( Film Dhoom ),
4. Kya mujhe pyaar hai ( Film Woh Lamhe ),
5. Pehli Nazar ( Film Race ) … to name a few.

Dream career, eh ? Highly talented ? Well, now sample THIS –
all of them were total liftoffs of other songs, generally of oriental origin. The original songs are, respectively, …
1. Ya Ghali ( By the arabic band Guitara.),
2. Bhebe dekhechho ki ( by the Bengali band Mohiner Ghoraguli ),
3. Sikidim ( a persian song ),
4. Tak Bisakah ( by the indonesian band Peter Pan ),
5. Sarang hae yo ( a korean song ).
some others of his hit songs ( like Tu hi meri shab hai ) have also been found to be ‘inspired’, to put it politely.

Why, man ? There is no easy way to fame, my friend. Do you have an ambition to be the next copying prodigy of Indian music after Anu Malik ? Please, for God’s sake, don’t do it. You are cresting a bad name for Indian music. It’s a shame to concede that you are a Bengali like me.

The cream

Now it feels cliche’ to even blog about this.

First you introduce out of nowhere an extended class of underprivileged social rungs, the OBCs. Fine, but what the hell is the need to give THEM the reservation in ( especially ) education. Why ?

The worst thing is that our political gurus do not want to compromise in this matter. At last the reservation is destined to kick off from this yr itself, but excluding the creamy layer, the comparatively better economically privileged ones among the OBCs, – as the Supreme Court ruled in its latest judgement. Reasonable, rationally sound. But … they won’t accept it even now. They want an unhindered, free ‘dadagiri’, nothing less would content them. And the circumstances suggest that they’ll get it, very sooner. After all, who’s the court. If the govt. says it won’t abide by the court’s order, what can the court do after all ??

This is not democracy, this is self-centered hypocrisy.

It ain’t easy

Prequel : Project … hunted !

Hmmm …

There are many subtle nuances that have to be kept in mind while you do this project.

Not at all that easy. The pre-planning is very very important. Have to proceed very carefully, for the territory is vastly unknown, though familiar. For example, we were thinking of getting the DNA samples from biopsy tissues, but just yesterday got to know in a mini-brainstorming with Navoneel da, a rersearch scholar in Human Genetics Unit at our insti that there is a phenomenon called heteroplasmy. What happens is cancerous cells have very high mutation rates, so drastic such that even the timid mitochondrial DNAs are affected. And what more, this research has been recently done in our institute itself recently. That’s why it is safe to take peripheral blood samples, not biopsy tissues, to be completely foolproof.

And this is only a part of it. There are some areas on which we are trying to think originally, but the basics turned out to be quite frail yesterday.

Have to study about it. A lot. Varied. More theoretical background needed. More efforts needed. More thinking needed.