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Akademi Award</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Music festivals</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saptak_Annual_Festival_of_Music" title="Saptak Annual Festival of Music">Saptak Festival of Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madras_Music_Season" title="Madras Music Season">Chennai Music Season</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dover_Lane_Music_Conference" title="Dover Lane Music Conference">Dover Lane music festival</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Purandaradasa_Aradhana" class="mw-redirect" title="Purandaradasa Aradhana">Purandaradasa Aradhana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyagaraja_Aradhana" title="Tyagaraja Aradhana">Tyagaraja Aradhana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harballabh_Sangeet_Sammelan" title="Harballabh Sangeet Sammelan"> Harivallabh Sangeet Sammelan</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><th class="sidebar-heading"> Music media</th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sruti_(magazine)" title="Sruti 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Islands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Andhra_Pradesh" title="Music of Andhra Pradesh">Andhra Pradesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Arunachal_Pradesh" title="Music of Arunachal Pradesh">Arunachal Pradesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Assam" title="Music of Assam">Assam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Bihar" title="Music of Bihar">Bihar</a> (<a href="/wiki/Maithili_music" title="Maithili music">Maithili</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Chhattisgarh" title="Music of Chhattisgarh">Chhattisgarh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Goa" title="Music of Goa">Goa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Gujarat" title="Music of Gujarat">Gujarat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Haryana" title="Music of Haryana">Haryana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Himachal_Pradesh" title="Music of Himachal Pradesh">Himachal Pradesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Jammu_and_Kashmir" title="Music of Jammu and Kashmir">Jammu and Kashmir</a></li> <li><a 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Punjab">Punjab</a> (<a href="/wiki/Folk_music_of_Punjab" title="Folk music of Punjab">Folk</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Rajasthan" title="Music of Rajasthan">Rajasthan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Sikkim" title="Music of Sikkim">Sikkim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Tamil_Nadu" title="Music of Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Tamil_music" title="Ancient Tamil music">Ancient</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Tripura" title="Music of Tripura">Tripura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Uttar_Pradesh" title="Music of Uttar Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_Uttarakhand" title="Music of Uttarakhand">Uttarakhand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Music_of_West_Bengal" title="Music of West Bengal">West Bengal</a></li></ul></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style 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In cinema, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_film_music_directors" title="List of Indian film music directors">music directors</a> make up the main body of composers; the songs are performed by <a href="/wiki/Playback_singer" title="Playback singer">playback singers</a> and the genre represents 72% of the music sales market in India.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Filmi music tends to have appeal across India, Nepal, Pakistan and overseas, especially among the <a href="/wiki/Non-resident_Indian_and_person_of_Indian_origin" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin">Indian diaspora</a>. Songs are often in different languages depending on the target audience, for example in Hindi or Tamil. Playback singers are usually more noted for their ability to sing rather than their charisma as performers. Filmi playback singers' level of success and appeal is tied to their involvement with film soundtracks of cinema releases with the highest box office ratings. </p><p>At the "Filmi Melody: Song and Dance in Indian Cinema" archive presentation at <a href="/wiki/UCLA" class="mw-redirect" title="UCLA">UCLA</a>, filmi was praised as a generally more fitting term for the tradition than "Bombay melody", "suggesting that the exuberant music and melodrama so closely identified with the Hindi commercial cinema produced in Bombay (Mumbai) is truly pan-Indian."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Origins">Origins</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Filmi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Origins"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Hindi_film_music" title="Hindi film music">Hindi film music</a></div> <p>In the earliest years, filmi music was generally Indian (classical Carnatic, Hindustani, and village folk) in inspiration; over the years, Western elements have increased significantly.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2008)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> However, film soundtracks continue to be very diverse, sometimes fusing genres or reverting to entirely classical music. Examples of this can be found throughout the history of filmi music. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Music_directors">Music directors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Filmi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Music directors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_film_music_directors" title="List of Indian film music directors">List of Indian film music directors</a></div> <p>R. C. Boral, Harishchandra Bali, <a href="/wiki/Pankaj_Mullick" title="Pankaj Mullick">Pankaj Mullick</a>, Anil Biswas, <a href="/wiki/Naushad_Ali" class="mw-redirect" title="Naushad Ali">Naushad Ali</a>, <a href="/wiki/Khwaja_Khurshid_Anwar" title="Khwaja Khurshid Anwar">Khwaja Khurshid Anwar</a> and <a href="/wiki/S._Rajeswara_Rao" title="S. Rajeswara Rao">S. Rajeswara Rao</a> were noteworthy music directors of the 1940s. Rao, who scored the 1948 Tamil <i><a href="/wiki/Chandralekha_(1948_film)" title="Chandralekha (1948 film)">Chandralekha</a></i>, the first all-India hit, continued music directing in Chennai until the 1980s. The 1950s and 1960s, included music composers like <a href="/wiki/Shankar_Jaikishan" class="mw-redirect" title="Shankar Jaikishan">Shankar Jaikishan</a>, <a href="/wiki/S._D._Burman" title="S. D. Burman">S. D. Burman</a>, <a href="/wiki/O._P._Nayyar" title="O. P. Nayyar">O. P. Nayyar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Madan_Mohan_(composer)" title="Madan Mohan (composer)">Madan Mohan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hemant_Kumar" title="Hemant Kumar">Hemant Kumar</a>, <a href="/wiki/C._Ramchandra" title="C. Ramchandra">C. Ramchandra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roshan_(music_director)" title="Roshan (music director)">Roshan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vasant_Desai" title="Vasant Desai">Vasant Desai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kalyanji%E2%80%93Anandji" title="Kalyanji–Anandji">Kalyanji–Anandji</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Zahur_Khayyam" title="Mohammed Zahur Khayyam">Khayyam</a> in Hindi film music. <a href="/wiki/K._V._Mahadevan" title="K. V. Mahadevan">K. V. Mahadevan</a>, Vishwanathan-Ramamoorthy, <a href="/wiki/Laxmikant%E2%80%93Pyarelal" title="Laxmikant–Pyarelal">Laxmikant–Pyarelal</a>, <a href="/wiki/G._Devarajan" title="G. Devarajan">G. Devarajan</a>, <a href="/wiki/V._Dakshinamoorthy" title="V. Dakshinamoorthy">V. Dakshinamoorthy</a> and <a href="/wiki/M._S._Viswanathan" title="M. S. Viswanathan">M. S. Viswanathan</a> were active music directors for more than 35 years from the 1950s. </p><p>As Indian cinema segued into the 1960s and 1970s, pop artists like <a href="/wiki/R._D._Burman" title="R. D. Burman">R. D. Burman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bappi_Lahiri" title="Bappi Lahiri">Bappi Lahiri</a> and duos like <a href="/wiki/Nadeem%E2%80%93Shravan" title="Nadeem–Shravan">Nadeem–Shravan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jatin%E2%80%93Lalit" title="Jatin–Lalit">Jatin–Lalit</a> gave filmi a stronger western flavor with composers <a href="/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja" title="Ilaiyaraaja">Ilaiyaraaja</a> and <a href="/wiki/Raveendran" title="Raveendran">Raveendran</a> who rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s in Tamil film music. </p><p>Major musical forces in the 1990s and 2000s have included <a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nadeem%E2%80%93Shravan" title="Nadeem–Shravan">Nadeem–Shravan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pritam" title="Pritam">Pritam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Himesh_Reshammiya" title="Himesh Reshammiya">Himesh Reshammiya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harris_Jayaraj" title="Harris Jayaraj">Harris Jayaraj</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shankar%E2%80%93Ehsaan%E2%80%93Loy" title="Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy">Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vishal%E2%80%93Shekhar" title="Vishal–Shekhar">Vishal–Shekhar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vidyasagar_(composer)" title="Vidyasagar (composer)">Vidyasagar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ramesh_Narayan" title="Ramesh Narayan">Ramesh Narayan</a>, <a href="/wiki/M._Jayachandran" title="M. Jayachandran">M. Jayachandran</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yuvan_Shankar_Raja" title="Yuvan Shankar Raja">Yuvan Shankar Raja</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deepak_Dev" title="Deepak Dev">Deepak Dev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Johnson_(composer)" title="Johnson (composer)">Johnson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anu_Malik" title="Anu Malik">Anu Malik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nusrat_Fateh_Ali_Khan" title="Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan">Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Salim%E2%80%93Sulaiman" title="Salim–Sulaiman">Salim–Sulaiman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Devi_Sri_Prasad" title="Devi Sri Prasad">Devi Sri Prasad</a> etc. A. R. Rahman, who was described by <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i> magazine as "India's most prominent movie songwriter",<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is widely accepted to be the most internationally recognized Indian musician. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Playback_singers">Playback singers</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Filmi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Playback singers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_playback_singers" title="List of Indian playback singers">List of Indian playback singers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Playback_singer" title="Playback singer">Playback singer</a></div> <p>A playback singer is a singer who pre-records songs for use in films. The singer records the song and the actors or actresses <a href="/wiki/Lip-sync" class="mw-redirect" title="Lip-sync">lip-sync</a> the song in front of the cameras, a form of singing that is characteristic of the Indian subcontinent. The songs of a film, the quality of the music and its music director (composer), lyricist and singer have often determined the success of a film. Film soundtracks are sometimes released before the film itself, resulting in a disparity between the soundtrack and the songs appearing in the film. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Kundan_Lal_Saigal" class="mw-redirect" title="Kundan Lal Saigal">Kundan Lal Saigal</a> was one of the earliest playback singers in the Indian music industry.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Notable playback singers include <a href="/wiki/Kishore_Kumar" title="Kishore Kumar">Kishore Kumar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar" title="Lata Mangeshkar">Lata Mangeshkar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Asha_Bhosle" title="Asha Bhosle">Asha Bhosle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi">Mohammed Rafi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mukesh_(singer)" title="Mukesh (singer)">Mukesh</a>, <a href="/wiki/S._P._Balasubrahmanyam" title="S. P. Balasubrahmanyam">S. P. Balasubrahmanyam</a>, <a href="/wiki/K._J._Yesudas" title="K. J. Yesudas">K. J. Yesudas</a>, <a href="/wiki/S._Janaki" title="S. Janaki">S. Janaki</a>, <a href="/wiki/P._Susheela" title="P. Susheela">P. Susheela</a>, <a href="/wiki/K._S._Chithra" title="K. S. Chithra">K. S. Chithra</a>, <a href="/wiki/M._G._Sreekumar" title="M. G. Sreekumar">MG Sreekumar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Udit_Narayan" title="Udit Narayan">Udit Narayan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amit_Kumar" title="Amit Kumar">Amit Kumar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alka_Yagnik" title="Alka Yagnik">Alka Yagnik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sujatha_Mohan" title="Sujatha Mohan">Sujatha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hemlata_(singer)" title="Hemlata (singer)">Hemlata (singer)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kumar_Sanu" title="Kumar Sanu">Kumar Sanu</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armaan_Malik" title="Armaan Malik">Armaan Malik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sonu_Nigam" title="Sonu Nigam">Sonu Nigam</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shaan_(singer)" title="Shaan (singer)">Shaan</a>, <a href="/wiki/KK_(singer)" title="KK (singer)">KK</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shreya_Ghoshal" title="Shreya Ghoshal">Shreya Ghoshal</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arijit_Singh" title="Arijit Singh">Arijit Singh</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mohit_Chauhan" title="Mohit Chauhan">Mohit Chauhan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Javed_Ali" title="Javed Ali">Javed Ali</a>, <a href="/wiki/Neha_Kakkar" title="Neha Kakkar">Neha Kakkar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Priyadarshini_(singer)" title="Priyadarshini (singer)">Priyadarshini</a> and many others. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lyricists">Lyricists</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Filmi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Lyricists"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Hindi_film_music" title="Hindi film music">Hindi film music</a></div> <p>In the 1950s and 1960s, lyricists like <a href="/wiki/Shailendra_(lyricist)" title="Shailendra (lyricist)">Shailendra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hasrat_Jaipuri" title="Hasrat Jaipuri">Hasrat Jaipuri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sahir_Ludhianvi" title="Sahir Ludhianvi">Sahir Ludhianvi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Raja_Mehdi_Ali_Khan" title="Raja Mehdi Ali Khan">Raja Mehdi Ali Khan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rajendra_Krishan" title="Rajendra Krishan">Rajendra Krishan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Majrooh_Sultanpuri" title="Majrooh Sultanpuri">Majrooh Sultanpuri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bharat_Vyas" title="Bharat Vyas">Bharat Vyas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shakeel_Badayuni" title="Shakeel Badayuni">Shakeel Badayuni</a>, <a href="/wiki/Qamar_Jalalabadi" title="Qamar Jalalabadi">Qamar Jalalabadi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anand_Bakshi" title="Anand Bakshi">Anand Bakshi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jan_Nisar_Akhtar" title="Jan Nisar Akhtar">Jan Nisar Akhtar</a> and <a href="/wiki/S._H._Bihari" title="S. H. Bihari">S. H. Bihari</a> wrote lyrics of many classic filmi songs. Lyrics tended towards the literary and drew heavily on contemporary <a href="/wiki/Urdu" title="Urdu">Urdu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hindi" title="Hindi">Hindi</a> poetry. The south has seen poets like <a href="/wiki/Kannadasan" title="Kannadasan">Kannadasan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vairamuthu" title="Vairamuthu">Vairamuthu</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vaali_(poet)" title="Vaali (poet)">Vaali</a> rise to prominence, in <a href="/wiki/Tamil_language" title="Tamil language">Tamil</a> poetry and literature alongside <a href="/wiki/Vayalar_Ramavarma" title="Vayalar Ramavarma">Vayalar Ramavarma</a>, <a href="/wiki/P._Bhaskaran" title="P. Bhaskaran">P. Bhaskaran</a>, <a href="/wiki/O._N._V._Kurup" title="O. N. V. Kurup">O. N. V. Kurup</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Malayalam_music#Malayalam_film_music" class="mw-redirect" title="Malayalam music">Malayalam music industry</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2014)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Nowadays, some famous lyricists are <a href="/wiki/Rashmi_Virag" title="Rashmi Virag">Rashmi Virag</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kunaal_Vermaa" title="Kunaal Vermaa">Kunaal Vermaa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Manoj_Muntashir" title="Manoj Muntashir">Manoj Muntashir</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kumaar" title="Kumaar">Rakesh Kumar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Irshad_Kamil" title="Irshad Kamil">Irshad Kamil</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sayeed_Quadri" title="Sayeed Quadri">Sayeed Quadri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armaan_Malik" title="Armaan Malik">Armaan Malik</a> etc. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Popularity_ratings">Popularity ratings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Filmi&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Popularity ratings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Binaca_Geetmala" title="Binaca Geetmala">Binaca Geetmala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ameen_Sayani" title="Ameen Sayani">Ameen Sayani</a>'s popular <a href="/wiki/Hindi_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Hindi language">Hindi language</a> radio show before <a href="/wiki/Satellite_television" title="Satellite television">satellite television</a> took over in India sometime in the 1990s, gave weekly popularity ratings of Hindi film songs (akin to the <a href="/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a> list of songs). It ran in various incarnations from 1952 to 1993, and annual lists of the most popular songs were played at year-end. The list was compiled on the basis of record sales in <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Screen_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Screen-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Currently, Hindi filmi songs are sold on tape and CD compilations, played as promos and in programs on various television channels and radio stations, with different popularity ratings claiming different songs as being on the top. In an annual exercise, a net-based effort <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://awards.giitaayan.com/">RMIM Puraskaar</a> lists all important Hindi film songs of the year, in addition to awarding songs for various categories. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Accusations_of_plagiarism">Accusations of plagiarism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Filmi&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Accusations of plagiarism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Because popular music directors score a great many films over the course of a year, accusations of plagiarizing abound. For example, one production number in <i><a href="/wiki/Dil_(1990_film)" title="Dil (1990 film)">Dil</a></i> (1990) is based on <a href="/wiki/Carl_Perkins" title="Carl Perkins">Carl Perkins</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Blue_Suede_Shoes" title="Blue Suede Shoes">Blue Suede Shoes</a></i>, sung with <a href="/wiki/Hindi" title="Hindi">Hindi</a> lyrics. Of late the Indian film industry has been gaining visibility outside India, and the legal risks of plagiarism have been gaining importance. Some producers have actually paid for the musical rights to popular Western songs, as in <i><a href="/wiki/Kal_Ho_Naa_Ho" title="Kal Ho Naa Ho">Kal Ho Naa Ho</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> (2003) song, "<a href="/wiki/Oh,_Pretty_Woman" title="Oh, Pretty Woman">Oh, Pretty Woman</a>". Plagiarism has also existed within India, with several music directors in Bombay cinema lifting tunes from other "regional" industries. </p><p>There have also been accusations of plagiarism against foreigner musicians borrowing from Hindi filmi songs. For example, "<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Phunk_with_My_Heart" title="Don't Phunk with My Heart">Don't Phunk with My Heart</a>" by <a href="/wiki/The_Black_Eyed_Peas" class="mw-redirect" title="The Black Eyed Peas">The Black Eyed Peas</a> was largely based on two 1970s filmi songs: "Ye Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana" from <i><a href="/wiki/Don_(1978_film)" title="Don (1978 film)">Don</a></i> (1978) and "Ae Naujawan Hai Sab Kuchh Yahan" from <i><a href="/wiki/Apradh" title="Apradh">Apradh</a></i> (1972).<sup id="cite_ref-Apradh_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Apradh-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both songs were originally composed by <a href="/wiki/Kalyanji_Anandji" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalyanji Anandji">Kalyanji Anandji</a> and sung by <a href="/wiki/Asha_Bhosle" title="Asha Bhosle">Asha Bhosle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Denselow_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Denselow-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another example is "<a href="/wiki/Addictive_(song)" title="Addictive (song)">Addictive</a>" sung by <a href="/wiki/Truth_Hurts_(singer)" title="Truth Hurts (singer)">Truth Hurts</a>, which is lifted from <a href="/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar" title="Lata Mangeshkar">Lata Mangeshkar</a>'s "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai" from <i>Jyoti</i> (1981). This led to the copyright holders of the original song filing a lawsuit against <a href="/wiki/DJ_Quik" title="DJ Quik">DJ Quik</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dr._Dre" title="Dr. Dre">Dr. Dre</a>, the producers of "Addictive".<sup id="cite_ref-VH1_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VH1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Filmi music composed by <a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> (who would later win two <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Awards</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire_(soundtrack)" class="mw-redirect" title="Slumdog Millionaire (soundtrack)"><i>Slumdog Millionaire</i> soundtrack</a>) has frequently been sampled by musicians elsewhere in the world, including the <a href="/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singaporean</a> artist <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Poon" title="Kelly Poon">Kelly Poon</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Uzbekistan" title="Music of Uzbekistan">Uzbek artist</a> Iroda Dilroz, the French rap group <a href="/wiki/La_Caution" title="La Caution">La Caution</a>, the American artist <a href="/wiki/Ciara" title="Ciara">Ciara</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">German</a> band <a href="/wiki/L%C3%B6wenherz" title="Löwenherz">Löwenherz</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> among others. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wider_success">Wider success</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Filmi&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Wider success"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Filmi is also making exerting influence beyond the usual <a href="/wiki/Desi" title="Desi">Desi</a> audiences, with many Western music stores today carrying Indian music compilations. As early as 1978, the <a href="/wiki/Synthpop" class="mw-redirect" title="Synthpop">synthpop</a> pioneers <a href="/wiki/Haruomi_Hosono" title="Haruomi Hosono">Haruomi Hosono</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ryuichi_Sakamoto" title="Ryuichi Sakamoto">Ryuichi Sakamoto</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Yellow_Magic_Orchestra" title="Yellow Magic Orchestra">Yellow Magic Orchestra</a> produced an <a href="/wiki/Electronic_music" title="Electronic music">electronic</a> album <i>Cochin Moon</i> based on an <a href="/wiki/Experimental_music" title="Experimental music">experimental</a> <a href="/wiki/Fusion_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Fusion (music)">fusion</a> between electronic music and Bollywood-inspired Indian music.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later in 1988, <a href="/wiki/Devo" title="Devo">Devo</a>'s hit song "Disco Dancer" was inspired by the song "I am a Disco Dancer" from the Bollywood film <i><a href="/wiki/Disco_Dancer" title="Disco Dancer">Disco Dancer</a></i> (1982).<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Baz_Luhrmann" title="Baz Luhrmann">Baz Luhrmann</a> showcases the song "<a href="/wiki/Chamma_Chamma" title="Chamma Chamma">Chamma Chamma</a>" from <i><a href="/wiki/China_Gate_(1998_film)" title="China Gate (1998 film)">China Gate</a></i> (1998) in his 2001 movie <i><a href="/wiki/Moulin_Rouge!" title="Moulin Rouge!">Moulin Rouge</a></i>. Another 2001 film <i><a href="/wiki/Ghost_World_(film)" title="Ghost World (film)">Ghost World</a></i> featured <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi">Mohammed Rafi</a>'s song "<a href="/wiki/Jaan_Pehechan_Ho" title="Jaan Pehechan Ho">Jaan Pehechan Ho</a>" from the 1965 film <i><a href="/wiki/Gumnaam" title="Gumnaam">Gumnaam</a></i>. The 2002 song "<a href="/wiki/Addictive_(song)" title="Addictive (song)">Addictive</a>", sung by Truth Hurts and produced by <a href="/wiki/DJ_Quik" title="DJ Quik">DJ Quik</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dr._Dre" title="Dr. Dre">Dr. Dre</a>, was lifted from <a href="/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar" title="Lata Mangeshkar">Lata Mangeshkar</a>'s "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai" from <i>Jyoti</i> (1981).<sup id="cite_ref-VH1_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VH1-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/The_Black_Eyed_Peas" class="mw-redirect" title="The Black Eyed Peas">The Black Eyed Peas</a>' <a href="/wiki/Grammy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Grammy Award">Grammy Award</a> winning 2005 song "<a href="/wiki/Don%27t_Phunk_with_My_Heart" title="Don't Phunk with My Heart">Don't Phunk with My Heart</a>" was inspired by two 1970s Bollywood songs: "Ye Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana" from <i><a href="/wiki/Don_(1978_film)" title="Don (1978 film)">Don</a></i> (1978) and "Ae Naujawan Hai Sab Kuchh Yahan" from <i><a href="/wiki/Apradh" title="Apradh">Apradh</a></i> (1972).<sup id="cite_ref-Apradh_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Apradh-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both songs were originally composed by <a href="/wiki/Kalyanji_Anandji" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalyanji Anandji">Kalyanji Anandji</a>, sung by <a href="/wiki/Asha_Bhosle" title="Asha Bhosle">Asha Bhosle</a>, and featured the dancer <a href="/wiki/Helen_(actress)" title="Helen (actress)">Helen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Denselow_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Denselow-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The songs "Mera Man Tera Pyasa" from the movie <i><a href="/wiki/Gambler_(film)" title="Gambler (film)">Gambler</a></i> (1971) performed by <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Rafi" title="Mohammed Rafi">Mohammed Rafi</a>, "Tere Sang Pyar Main" from the movie <i><a href="/wiki/Nagin_(1976_film)" title="Nagin (1976 film)">Nagin</a></i> (1976) performed by <a href="/wiki/Lata_Mangeshkar" title="Lata Mangeshkar">Lata Mangeshkar</a>, and "Wada Na Tod" also by Lata Mangeshkar from the movie <i><a href="/wiki/Dil_Tujhko_Diya" title="Dil Tujhko Diya">Dil Tujhko Diya</a></i> (1987) were featured in <i><a href="/wiki/Eternal_Sunshine_of_the_Spotless_Mind_(soundtrack)" title="Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (soundtrack)">Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</a></i> (2004). Scores from <a href="/wiki/Tamil_cinema" title="Tamil cinema">Chennai Tamil films</a> have appeared in productions such as <i><a href="/wiki/Lord_of_War" title="Lord of War">Lord of War</a></i> (2005) and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Accidental_Husband" title="The Accidental Husband">The Accidental Husband</a></i> (2008). <a href="/wiki/Ilaiyaraaja" title="Ilaiyaraaja">Ilaiyaraaja</a> won the Gold Remi Award for Best Music Score jointly with film composer <a href="/wiki/M._S._Viswanathan" title="M. S. Viswanathan">M. S. Viswanathan</a> at the WorldFest-Houston Film Festival for the Tamil film <i><a href="/wiki/Vishwa_Thulasi" title="Vishwa Thulasi">Vishwa Thulasi</a></i> (2005).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/A._R._Rahman" title="A. R. Rahman">A. R. Rahman</a> rose to fame from the <a href="/wiki/Tamil_cinema" title="Tamil cinema">Kollywood</a> film industry to become one of the most popular international music directors and has had a musical<i><a href="/wiki/Bombay_Dreams" title="Bombay Dreams">Bombay Dreams</a></i>, playing in London and New York, and scored several projects outside India. He has won two Academy awards and two Grammy awards, even numerous international awards and accolades. The song "<a href="/wiki/Chaiyya_Chaiyya" title="Chaiyya Chaiyya">Chaiyya Chaiyya</a>", originally composed by A. R. Rahman for <i><a href="/wiki/Dil_Se.." title="Dil Se..">Dil Se..</a></i> (1998), has also been well received around the world, making several top 10 world music lists and has even been featured in several American movies. The song was in both the opening scene and credits of <a href="/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee">Spike Lee</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Inside_Man" title="Inside Man">Inside Man</a></i>. Rahman's earlier <a href="/wiki/Roja_(soundtrack)" title="Roja (soundtrack)">soundtrack for <i>Roja</i></a> (1991) was included in <a href="/wiki/Time%27s_All-Time_100_Movies" title="Time's All-Time 100 Movies"><i>Time</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> 10 Best Soundtracks</a> of all time in 2005. He has been regarded as the only composer from <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a> to attain massive popularity and fame in the international arena.<sup id="cite_ref-Timetop10s_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Timetop10s-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Timesecrets100_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Timesecrets100-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Time_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hindi filmi music has reached an even wider global audience due to the success of the <a href="/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire_(soundtrack)" class="mw-redirect" title="Slumdog Millionaire (soundtrack)"><i>Slumdog Millionaire</i> soundtrack</a>, also composed by Rahman. Singaporean-Indian singer <a href="/wiki/Priyadarshini_(singer)" title="Priyadarshini (singer)">Priyadarshini</a> is regarded as the first Indian playback singer to carry out Ph.D.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> research in film music and document 100 years of music in Tamil cinema and 90 years in Kannada cinema<sup id="cite_ref-:0_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first domain name ever registered related to filmi music and Indian entertainment media was indiamusic.com. The site further put filmi music on the map. Thereafter followed a flood of Indian and filmi music sites. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Filmi&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hindi_cinema" title="Hindi cinema">Hindi cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_India" title="Cinema of India">Cinema of India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Filmi_qawwali" title="Filmi qawwali">Filmi qawwali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Indian_film_music_directors" title="List of Indian film music directors">List of Indian film music directors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hindi_film_music" title="Hindi film music">Hindi film music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Playback_singer" title="Playback singer">Playback singer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamil_cinema" title="Tamil cinema">Tamil cinema</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telugu_cinema" title="Telugu cinema">Telugu cinema</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Filmi&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns 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