Borrowed Music - 2


I never knew that day will come so soon (read the last para of my last post).
Today, a super mega budget movie borrowed the soundtrack from our ARR’s score!! Nicolas Cage’s movie ‘Lord of War’ uses our ARR’s Bombay theme. When Nicolas cage gets arrested in Africa - the sun sets down, we hear Bombay theme in the background - just the full theme, not even a remix.
There you go - as far as I know thats the first time a major Hollywood movie used music from our movies! ARR has made us proud
As Manoj points out in the comments, the film makers did obtain the rights from Universal Music (India). It was funny the way they gave credits in the end titles (in the actual movie, not in IMDB) - The title card read as “Mumbai Theme Music” not “Bombay Theme Music” - such political correctness. It reminded me of the time when Bombay was renamed, my alma mater didn’t want to change its name from ‘IIT Bombay’ to ‘IIT Mumbai’ - so they called it : IIT Bombay, Mumbai

It was used with due acknowledgement. So hopefully Rahman was paid for it. In US$.
Thanks for the pointer manoj!
http://www.itwofs.com/
Thats a forum that a bunch of Indian people work on to catalogue lifts. You’ll be surprised to see that the number of reverse lifts (where a non-Indian composer uses Indian tunes).
cheers,
Manu
thanks for the link manu - i have been looking for that URL…
Edit - there used to be one more website similar to this… do u know that?