Composer: Harris Jayaraj

Song: June Pona

Film: Unnale Unnale (2007)

Inspiration: All rise (2001)

Composer / Album: Blue

June Pona follows the same pattern and beats of the boy band ‘Blue’s’ hugely popular song ‘All rise’. Strangely, June Pona has blended so well with the regionalisation that anyone hardly notices where the inspiration came from.

Composer: Yuvan Shankar Raja

Song: Nenjodu

Film: Kadhal Konden (2003)

Inspiration: Runaway (1994)

Composer / Album: Thecorrs

It is a case of a straight lift of a tune. The opening lines of the song and the opening guitar strum of the original are identical. Almost the whole Tamil song move along in the same rhythm, but the original appears to break away from this rhythm after the initial strumming of the guitar.