The fateful affair between R. D. Burman, Subhash Ghai & Laxmikant Pyarelal. (Did You Know - 18)

I saw some persons are calling RDB a copycat and according to them L-P have always given original music. Have you ever noticed background scoers? RD has always given excellent background music rather than lifting from music bank. he has used typical tune for Babu (Amitabh in 2nd role) in Satte pe satta. LP have blindly copid this tune for Vinod Khanna in Insaaf. (if you dont belive, watch both movies again).
 
Same way the tune RD has used in Arjun has been copied by L-P in Hum for Amitabh (Tiger) and still the effect is missing in Insaaf and Hum. listen to RD background score in Shakti (where he has played same tune in different moods between Big B and DIlip Kumar). In Saagar also he has used three different tunes for Rishi , Dimple and Kamal Hasan. Nobody can give background music like RD has given in Saagar, Samundar, Shakti or The Burning Train. Now come to the songs part. Some of the Gems he has given in flop movies - Aisa sama na hota (zameen aasman), Hum tum hum do rahi (Yeh to Kamal ho gaya), Machal machal jata hai dil (Raam tere kitne naam), Kaisi lag rahi hoonn main (Jootha Sach). L-P can never give any of this songs.

Lp remained in the shadow of rdb and kalyanji anandji till 80s. Lp had worked as music arrangers for the above two , and the old guard ( Sd burman ) . Seems like they got tired of staying in the shadow for too long. Shameless indeed , as they should have considered how the old guard helped them . Shankar jaikishan even changed their orchestration once as LPs sound was sounding like theirs. Great as they were, coming from poor backgrounds , but did a very shameless thing not once , now that I read about what u wrote for HM sir. Lataji was a big fan of Lakshmi sir hence she rooted for them . Wonder what she felt after that incident . The industry has suffered since RDB went prematurely ( Anu Malik , Nadeem shravan in most of their crass nos barring minority good ones ) to be rescued only when ARR came . The eery coincidence is his recording studio is also known as Panchathan studios . 

They both were amazing music directors, but the 80's didn't do many favours for Pancham Da. His compositions became fairly average and lacked the magic they had in the 60's and 70's. Laxmikant Pyarelals orchestration was always so grand and larger than life, you can just imagine 100's of musicians in the studio putting their heart and soul into the song. If we were to compare the two camps then Laxmikant Pyarelal wins hands down. With that said I do feel it was very wrong for Subhash Ghai to go back on his word,  a Man's word should be his word, and he must live and die by it.