after bryan adams label expressed concern over the iconic summer of 69 being allegedly ripped off by a malayalam film music composer one fears if tollywood will face the wrath international musicians considering the number of lifts in our films music reports of musician bryan adamss team contemplating legal action against the makers of hit malayalam film bangalore days to be remade in telugu hit the headlines recently it was alleged that the makers of the film plagiarised the iconic 1984 track summer of 69 in the song kannum chimmi the issue has once again triggered the age old debate between plagiarism and inspiration but whats more interesting is that the song caught the attention of bryan adams office through an online post that claimed the song was a rip off well we shouldnt be surprised if soon our telugu filmmakers have similar charges levied against them because there are plenty of online forums which specialise in identifying copycat tunes in telugu albums youll just have to type telugu songs copied on an online search engine to discover innumerable lists of hit songs allegedly ripped off from hindi english and hollywood movie sound tracks with embedded videos of telugu songs placed beside the corresponding track from which it was allegedly inspired or copied from recent hits to iconic songs from the nineties the lists could induce a huge sense of an audio deja vu to say the least for example the base tune of the hit number sweety from allu arjuns race gurram shares an uncanny resemblance to a romanian song armandoi composed by matteo the popular yemaindo yemo song from gundejaari gallanthayyinde was claimed to be the official remix of a song from pawan kalyans tholi prema however the original itself sounds eerily similar to the hit ricky martin single un dos tres that topped the charts in 1996 in fact director puri jagannath publicly admitted that he got thaman to rip off the italian revolutionary track bella ciao for the pilla chav track in businessman classics like telusa manasa from nagarjunas criminal composed by mm kerravani also has similarities with the chartbuster age of loneliness by enigma the iconic chakri composition nee kosam from itlu sravani subramanyam not only sounds like madonnas frozen but looks the same as well also the romantic number cheppava prema sounds like a mellowed down version of chers dove lamore the list can just go on and on however the music directors in their defence claim that its a thin line that separates inspiration and plagiarism music director gopi sunder admits to using the guitar riff from the hit bryan adams single but contests i have used the same guitar riff as that of summer of 69 out of my love for bryan adams and i did it knowingly it might seem like a copy to a lay person but someone who knows music will see that the notation of the melody is different it is not legally wrong to adapt the