Music has always been an essential part of Hindi films. In fact, Indian films are uniquely known around the world for their song and dance routine, and the audience here is quite proud of it. For decades, the audience has been fed a steady diet of film songs and at one point, the popularity of film songs nearly eroded independent music in the country. This led to the dominance of film music composers. But, all power comes with great responsibility, and unfortunately, many music composers here took their audience for a ride. The idea of plagiarising songs isn’t a new one in India, and shockingly, it’s not even looked down upon . So when Bappi Lahiri and Laxmikant-Pyarelal both “took inspiration” from the same Guinean song, neither was embarrassed, but both of them called the other one “unethical” for copying the same song as them.…