There could be more to Alia Bhatt’s new song than Vital Signs

RJ Wes Malik has come up with a theory suggesting both 'Gore Rung Ka Zamana' and ‘Prada’ maybe inspired by a...

Days after song Prada featuring Alia Bhatt and The Doorbeen went viral people on the social started talking about how the song is possibly copied from Vital Signs’ classic Gore Rung Ka Zamana.

The Indian song has an uncanny resemblance to the melody of the 90s hit and follows a similar groove for a major part sung by Bhatt herself.


Since Vital Signs’ like several other 90s artists have reportedly plagiarised or been ‘inspired’ by Western pop-rock songs before as well, The Express Tribune reached out to band member Rizwanul Haque to confirm if Gore Rung Ka Zamana was an original song to begin with.


“It was very much an original song composed in 1987-88 and released as part of our first album Vital Signs Volume I,” Haque told the publication. “The band came up with the composition and Shoaib Mansoor wrote the lyrics for it.”

Needless to say that Bhatt’s new song has once again ignited the debate about original music and whether the VS song was an original composition in spite of what Haque claims to be.

Adding to the ongoing debate, well known RJ Wes Malik said that the VS song may have actually been inspired from a Punjabi folk song called ‘Kalay Rung Da Paranda’ which has been performed by the likes of Noor Jehan, Shazia Mansoor.



“The Alia Bhatt song wasn’t actually copied from Vital Signs but in fact it is a very old folk tune,” said Malik in a Facebook video, while plugging in the song’s rendition by Surendar Kaur and Narendar Kaur. “So maybe that folk song is where Prada is copied from and is also where maybe…Vital Signs took inspiration from,” he concluded.


While Haque remains adamant that the song is an original attempt, the video shared by Malik shows exactly the same melodic progression that dates way back than Vital Signs. Whether it is inspiration or the quintessentially folk ‘jhol’ or swing, being used in two different songs, the makers of Prada have some acknowledgments to make.

However, one must keep in mind that the same set of rules and acknowledgments don’t apply to a song passed on in the oral tradition as they do to an original composition.

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