I think he was referring to some song with the same title-jaane tu ya jaane na from yesteryear. I remember reading something like this before also when they released first trailor of JTYJN still i am not sure abt it though...
----- Original Message ---- From: Chord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:19:47 AM Subject: Re: [arr] Tu Bole Main Boloon is inspired from which song? Song is similar in style, not in tune or melody. --- In arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com, Ramesh R <triscodeca@ ...> wrote: > > Isn't that the Gershwin song "Let's call the whole thing off"? > http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Let's_Call_the_ Whole_Thing_ Off > http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=zZ3fjQa5Hls > > There's another version with Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong > http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=twF4Mt- q5jw > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Chord <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .> > To: arrahmanfans@ yahoogroups. com > Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 2:50:49 PM > Subject: [arr] Tu Bole Main Boloon is inspired from which song? > > > Rahman mentioned in the latest interview that the title track of Jaane > Tu is inspired from an original song form yester-year. Anyone know > that song? It was probably a number back in the 40s or 50s in the US, > so not many would be able to notice the similarities. Rahman seems to > have admitted that he composed very close to the original song. >