While there were plagiarised songs in Hindi films even in the Golden Era, Anu Malik’s name has been linked with the (mal)practice most often.
But he crossed the
limits of being inspired when he lifted Hatikvah, the national anthem of
Israel.
He was trolled for
his composition, titled Mera Mulk Mera Desh.
It was from the
1996 film Diljale.
My collection
contains just one of its three versions – the duet, sung by Kumar Sanu and Aditya
Narayan.
While Sanu
rendered the sad male version, Kavita Krishnamurthy sang the sad female
version.
Javed Akhtar wrote
them.
