100 Bollywood songs carry corroborated claims of borrowed tunes — Pehli Nazar leads with 34 independent domains
Asked:
“Tell me which Bollywood songs are copied from other songs”
Two live-web searches over roughly 3,525 unique pages surfaced thousands of reported song pairings; after title normalization and a threshold of at least 3 independent domains, 100 Bollywood-song / earlier-song pairs remain, spanning films from the 1950s to the 2010s. These are documented claims — sources say “copied”, “lifted”, “inspired” or “tribute” — not legal rulings.
Every reported pair, earlier song to Bollywood song
Ribbon thickness = number of independent domains reporting the pair (7–34). Sorted by corroboration; hover a ribbon or name for detail. Colour = decade of the Bollywood film.
Findings the picture cannot say alone
Composer attribution is thin: 72 of the 100 pairs did not yield a reliable Hindi composer in extraction; among resolved names, Anu Malik, Pritam and Rajesh Roshan lead with 5 pairs each, and Pritam's pairs average 19.2 corroborating domains —
itwofs.comThree songs carry multiple claimed antecedents: Mehbooba Mehbooba (Say You Love Me and Ta Rialia), Jab Koi Baat Bigad Jaye (three variants of the Five Hundred Miles folk tune) and Mere Rang Mein Rangne Wali (The Final Countdown, twice normalized) —
scroll.inThe same earlier song feeds two hits: Mory Kanté's Tama is reported behind both Tamma Tamma (20 domains) and Jumma Chumma (19), and the composers fought over the credit —
indianexpress.comOnly 25 of 100 rows carry an explicit relationship word from sources ("copied", "lifted", "tribute", "recycling"); the rest are reported pairings without a stated verb —
huffpost.com
The shortlist clusters in the 1990s and 2000s
Reported pairs by decade of the Bollywood film — this reflects reporting and source coverage as well as music history. 17 pairs have no resolved film year.