Talk:The Hundred-Foot Journey (soundtrack)
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"Toi" by Esther Granek and "My Mind is a Stranger Without You" by A.R. Rahman[edit]
I wish to present here brief comparison (not a full comparison table).
ALL the French lyrics in the song “My Mind Is a Stranger Without You" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZpqKArsjtw (henceforth "the song") are taken from the first five stanzas of the poem "Toi" https://www.poetica.fr/poeme-903/esther-granek-toi/ (henceforth "the poem", first published in 1978), as follows:
i) The first two stanzas are used word by word, line by line, without any change of order:
Toi c’est un mot
Toi c’est une voix
Toi c’est tes yeux et c’est ma joie
Toi c’est si beau
Toi c’est pour moi
Toi c’est bien là et je n’y crois
ii) The third stanza is first used as a mix, where after the first line comes the second half of the third line (repeated several times throughout the song):
Toi c’est soleil … - de chaque instant
iii) Than come the first two lines of the fifth stanza:
Toi c’est distant…
Toi c’est changeant…
iv) And the first two lines of the third stanza (word by word), repeated twice:
Toi c’est soleil
Toi c’est printemps
v) And the forth stanza:
Toi c’est présent
Toi c’est bonheur
Toi c’est arc-en-ciel dans mon coeur
vi) “Toi c’est soleil “ is repeated several times, not such in the poem (I skip other details).
In total, the French lyrics make about 80% or more of the lyrics of the song "My Mind is a Stranger Without You" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZpqKArsjtw. No credit has been given, no royalties paid, by the claimed writers A.R. Rahman or Solange Merindian. However, a few music applications did spot (using Musixmatch) the strong resemblance to the poem "Toi" https://www.poetica.fr/poeme-903/esther-granek-toi/ (despite the fact that the film song lyrics were not published), and added the name Esther Granek as a second writer (in small letters though):
https://lyricshub.ru/en/track/A-R-Rahman-feat-Solange-Merdinian-2/My-Mind-Is-a-Stranger-Without-You
https://www.shazam.com/track/144064994/my-mind-is-a-stranger-without-you
https://www.songtexte.com/songtext/ar-rahman/my-mind-is-a-stranger-without-you-1b76add4.html
https://musikguru.de/solange-merdinian/songtext-my-mind-is-a-stranger-without-you-812549.html
An official confirmation from UMPG for 50% share of the song's copyrights has been recently received. However, no agreement has been ever signed for this use, no royalties have been received thus far, and no credits to Esther Granek as the writer are published on the YouTube copies. In addition, no response received from A.R. Rahman regarding the above claims. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rgranek (talk • contribs) 12:43, 6 October 2022 (UTC)