No no - don’t jump to conclusions - nobody ripped off the famous ‘Sex and the City’ tune.

Well, ripping off music, themes and tunes are nothing new in our side of the hemisphere. Our Deva dutifully copied ‘Primal Fear’ (Vaali), ARR from ‘Bewitched’ (En Swaasa Katre) and the list extends on and on. Even I have heard some 60’s classical tunes (from old black and white movies) stolen completely from American 30’s music.

So imagine my surprise when I was watching Ang Lee’s ‘Yin shi nan nu’ (1993), and halfway into the movie I heard it - The famous theme tune from Sex and the City. Back to the initial question - yes, nobody copied from ‘Sex and the City’, but ‘Sex and the city’ has completely ripped off the tune from Ang Lee’s Chinese movie - Not just a few notes, the whole damn tune!

Undoubtedly ‘Sex and the City’ has the most infectious theme tunes, a tune which I keep humming all day (until recently replaced by another HBO tune from ‘Curb your Enthusiasm’, which itself was plagiarized with permission from a Bank commercial). Either way its one of the great tunes on TV today. Digging further, it seems that HBO is actually being sued by the guy who originally composed the tune for the Chinese movie.

I just dream of a day when a western MD rips off our music (for effect, maybe an Annu Malik or Deva tune) - and our musicians take a Warner Bros or a DreamWorks to court - yes, that would be the day!

Listen to a portion of the clip here