India Bollywood's Plagiarism of Pakistani Music

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Re: India Bollywood’s Plagiarism of Pakistani Music

@muqawwee123

Pop Industry of Pakistan kept on revolving from 1970s todate in spite of all the challenges and absence of concerts. Junoon, Vital Signs, Nazia Zohaib, Strings, Ali Haider, Ali Zafar, Shafqat Amant Ali, Hadiqa Kiyani herself, are not 50 years old story. BTW, Pakistani film Industry produced musicals like Jeeva, Sargam, Sangam, ChoRiyaan during 1990s.

As far as viewership of third class Pakistan idol is concerned, its running more on controversies than on content. We had music contest from NTM in 1990s providing singers like Shazia Manzoor, Waris Baig, etc. They all came into limelight by singing Pakistani songs. The world has not chnaged in one decade.. Pakistani songs (which you consider not popular today) have been copied in last decades Indian movies, which prove that our music still have relevance and popularity. Moreover, Pakistani singers like Atif Aslam, Ali Zafar, Shafqat Amanat, Shiraz Uppal, Ali Haider all got opportunity to work in India due to their earlier work in Pakistan.

While you cite great references for singers a question still remains. If Pakistan had such great Pop pedigree why aren’t our stars as famous as Indian stars? How come no one knows about Shaan but a granny in Louisianan has heard of Shahrukh khan. I agree that there were songs that were copied by India but they improved on them like arabs creating Algebra thus paving the way for Europeans to use it to create new inventions. The fact will always remain that there was a time where some brave souls came forth and tried to create a name for themselves but the Pakistani film industry was ruined by the whole “Jatt Film” movement. Which created movies entirely on punjabi culture. There are only a handful of movies that you can cite that were block busters in the 80s and 90s for Pakistan while India continued to produce blockbusters well in 100s since the 60s up til the present day. And the reason why Waris Baig and Shazia manzur didn’t sing Indian song during the 90s was because of the intense political tension between the two countries. We weren’t even allowed to talk about India or Bollywood on “PTV”. Since the advent of private channels such as GEO and ARY people can now freely sing bollywood songs.