“samjhana”
THE VITAL SIGNS
Original:UB40”Red ,Red Wine”
Line br line, this has got to be the most
infamously ripped-off song in the history
of Pakistani pop


“Pappu yaar”
JUNOON
Original: Jimi Hendrix “who Knows”
Salman Ahmed thought he could get away
with ripping off a rare, live bootleg but he
should know he ain’t no jimi.



“Pari”
DINO
Original: Spin Doctors “Two Princes”
Not only does Dino murder a funky,
upbeat song with his rasping,off-key
vocals, he then proceeds to mutilate its
dying corpse by releasing a God-awful
cheesy video.



“Albela rahi”
ALAMGIR
Original: The Sandpipers
“Guantanamera”
perhaps the only rip-off to ever do
justice to the original.



“deewana”
BUNNY
Original: Mambo All-Stars
“Beautiful Maria Of my Soul”
an electic selection foe Bunny to rip off.
This track featured in the movie The
Mambo Kings where Antonio Banderas
rendered it beautifully, Bunny doesn’t
quite reavh the mark.


“Gardish”
KARAVANoriginal: Led Zeppelin “kashmir”
Ripping off “Kashmir” seems to be a rite
of passage among Paki rock stars.



“Babia”
SAJJAD ALI
Original: Khaled”Didi”
It was a hit for khaled and it was a hit
for Sajjad Ali.



“Made in Pakistan”
WAQAR ALI
Original: Alisha “Made in India”
It’s one thing to rip off a good song and
pass it off as your own, hoping that it
may be accepted as a tribute to the
original. But when you rip off a song that’s terrible to start with, you’re really
not going far in this business.



“Meray Jeewan mein Aana”
KHALID WALEED
Original: John Denver “Annie’s Song”
“You fill up my senses” and then
poop on them with this awful rendition of
the Denver classic



“Aitebaar”
THE VITAL SIGNS”
Original: phill collins
“Groovy Kind of Love”
for a band that is touted as the
progenitor of pop in this country , they
really should have been more original.




“Jeevan”
HADIQA KIYANI”
Original: Red Hot Chilli Peppers
“Soul To Squeeze”
the intro and refrain in this song from
her album Raaz is a straight out rip-off.



“Ghoom”
JUNOON
Original: Led Zeppelin”Kashmir”
Surprise,surprise. Technically a straight
Cover of the famous Abida Parveen
Number, the chord progression matches up with Zeppelin classic.



“Apni jan Pakistan”
KHALID WALEED
Original: The Beatles “let it Be”
Ugh! There’s at least two corpses
Rolling in their graves.


“Don’t Worry be Happy”
KHALID WALEED original: Bobby McFerrin
“Don’t Worry be Happy”
originally emerging from the madcap
antics of Monty Python’s Meaning of
Life, Bobby McFerrin’s ditty reached the
Billboard charts after featuring on the
Soundtrack for the Tom Cruise-starrer
Cocktail. Khalid Waleed’s lyrics are nat a patch on the original.




“Kiya hai Love”
KHALID WALEED
Original: Haddaway “What is Love?”
What is it with this guy ? Did he not have
a single creative bone in his body or was
he under the impression that he was the
only person in Pakistan that listened to western tunes???