hello (song)
Shabari Kumar
i recently was in a record store and heard a hindi version of lionel
ritchie's song "hello". it was the same tune, translated lyrics, etc..
and was appallingly atrocious. it's one thing to pinch elements of a
tune, but this was a wholesale steal, like those cantonese versions of
air supply. does anyone know who the singer was? is this some new trend?
Kuntal Shah
Shabari> i recently was in a record store and heard a hindi
Shabari> version of lionel ritchie's song "hello". it was the
Shabari> same tune, translated lyrics, etc.. and was appallingly
Shabari> atrocious. it's one thing to pinch elements of a tune,
Shabari> but this was a wholesale steal, like those cantonese
Shabari> versions of air supply. does anyone know who the singer
Shabari> was? is this some new trend?
Yes, the tune of Lionel Richie's popular "Hello" song was lifted for
a hindi song in ( no surprize ) Tseries-produced movie "Aaja meri jaan".
The song goes like this : I have put the words of original "Hello" song
against each line, as much as I knew.
Aaja sanam varna to hum mar jayenge
( I want to see the sunshine in your eyes )
Ae meri jaaN meri kasam hai tum ko
( ?? ?? ?? )
Tere bina jeena bhi kya hai jeena
( ?? ?? ?? )
Suno meri jaan ho tum
( Hello it's me you're looking for )
Aa chalo kahiN door chale
( But I wonder where you are )
JahaN koi na hum ko mile
( And I wonder what you do )
Bas tum ho aur maiN hooN
( Are you somewhere feeling lonely )
Janeja .. I love you..
( For someone loving you )
Lyrics, as you can see, are not exactly translated. And you felt it was
atrocious, but I liked the song when I heard it first time. It was only
when I heard the original "Hello" song that I realized its "real" worth.
By the way, the same movie had another "lifted" song : Have you heard the
song "Are you coming to Scarborough fare" from "The Graduate" ? The copy
song goes as "Teri nazar se meri nazar kuchh hasiN baateN kar rahi hai".
For both the songs, singer is Anuradha Paudwal. MD could be Amar-Utpal
or Nikhil-Vinay.
-Kuntal.
PS: Recently I haven't seen any replies to my posts. So I suspect that my
posts are not going out from my news-server. So if somebody reads this
post, please acknowledge it. ( One will be enough ! )
