Boss shakes a leg to the beats of inspired hit

The tune of the song highlighted as Prabhu Deva’s item sensation in the Akshay- starrer, is a straight rehash of the song Apdi pode from the 2008 Tamil blockbuster, Gilli. Apdi pode is still touted as one of the most popular songs on YouTube.


Bollywood seeking inspiration from popular numbers is nothing new but, this time the makers of Boss have given due credit to original composer.

Bollywood has been rehashing Tamil and Telugu songs since the Eighties when Jeetendra and Sridevi shook a leg in songs of potboilers inspired by hits from Tamil and Telugu cinema.

The tunes of English hits have also been copied all along. Of late, tunes from all across the world - Spanish, Italian, Iranian, Arabic, Taiwanese, Lebanese, Korean and Turkish to name a few - have found a Bollywood avatar in some way or the other.

Hum na tode is composed by P. A. Deepak and sung by Vishal Dadlani. The original, Apdi pode , was choreographed by Prabhu Deva’s brother Raju Sundaram.

Akshay had made a special request to get Prabhu shake a leg with him in the song, to bring a genuine southern feel.

We hear Akshay was a keen learner and he made lots of effort to perfect the steps. He watched the original song’s video to get the basic steps in place. The last time Akshay and Prabhu were seen together was in the Chinta ta chita chita number in Rowdy Rathore , which again was a huge hit.

Coming up is Ranbir Kapoor’s Besharam, where the song Love ki ghanti , composed by Lalit Pandit, is inspired by an Italian classic, Bella ciao . Similarly, the hit song Pyar ki pungi in last year’s dud Agent Vinod was credited as composed by Pritam, although the rhythm loop in the background was partially lifted from Barobax’s famous song, Soosan Khanoom.