I was always under the impression that many of these songs were actually Hindi songs, but I had no idea they were original Pakistani songs stolen by Indian film industry. There is almost 2 hours long documentary on Youtube about this.
Small clip bellow…funny thing is that many Indians are s surprised by this, too (see Youtube comments section).
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Bollywood is a big market and it has captured Pakistani youth very well. As you were under perception that these are all original Indian songs, so is the most of Pakistani youth. What annoys me more now is promotion of Indian songs in Pakistani programs (dramas, news and even music contests like Pakistan Idol) as if Pakistan didn’t get its own music.
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^^^ They are using our material to dominate us culturally. As for idol, that’s more international thing & it helps in discovering new talent (which probably is net positive, IMO).
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but if a program got name of "Pakistan idol’, why they are allowing Indian music in it? Can’t we discover local talent by making them sing Pakistani songs?
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had to yeh hai k kal choudhury Aslam kii vafaat par jo documentary pesh kii gaii us meN jaa ba jaa Amitabh kii filmoN ke dialogues kii video dikhaayii gaii…Deewaar, ArakshaNR aur Agnipath movies ke dialogues kii video clips dikhaayii gai…Had hai!
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I don’t disagree with what you are saying & Pakistan idol should have Pakistani songs ( & many of them are in fact Pakistani songs), but Indians are shamelessly copying stuff from everyone w/o giving credit to artists who deserve credit.
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meh.. get in line. bollywood has been copying prolifically from every possible source - south indian, eastern european, korean. at least with pakistanis they are consumers of bollywood, there is some poetic justice to it for ignoring their own “kanjars and marasis” to be fed the same thing by bollywood.
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I am not against playing indian songs in Pakistan Idol.To me Pakistan Idol is just a banner to hunt talent from Pakistan.It doesn’t matter what songs are they singing as they say music has no boundaries.Lata mangeshkar, Asha bhosle and kishore kumar are inspiration for many!
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Here in France they also have their own music talent shows and 95% participants sing English songs in French accent. Now that becomes a treat to watch, french singing english songs