Top 5 Bollywood songs inspired by Tollywood

Any art form can seek its source of inspiration from any other source. It can be from the same medium or a different medium of another art form. Artists will get inspired by some piece of work that existed in any medium/language or even a different culture.

This happens across the globe. But, if such an adapted work does well, then that’s something everyone talks about. On that note, below is the list of 5 Telugu songs that gave the inspiration to remake them in Hindi, and those went viral upon their release. Let us have a look at them below.

This song from the 1992 film ‘Beta’ was inspired by the 1990 Telugu film ‘Jagadeka Veerudu Athiloka Sundari’ which was a big hit then in Tollywood. The success of this song made the makers of 'Beta' remake it in Hindi under the music direction of Anand-Milind.

The song was sung by Udit Narayan, Anuradha Paudwal in Hindi. The song is so popular upon its release, that is liked by many even today.

Criminal is a 1994 action thriller directed by Mahesh Bhatt, which was shot simultaneously in Telugu and Hindi with the entire Telugu cast and crew including the musician and the cinematographer from Tollywood.

The song ‘Tumile’ from the movie is even popular today in Hindi like its original from the Tollywood film of same name.

Love is a 1991 Hindi romantic entertainer directed by Suresh Krissna, starring Salman Khan and Revathi in the lead roles. It is a remake of the 1989 Telugu film 'Prema'. Though the Hindi version could not repeat the film's success as the original, the song “Saathiya Tune Kya Kiya” sung by S P Balasubramaniam and Chitra, and music composed by Anand Milind was a blockbuster hit in the Hindi belt even today.

Paheli is an Indian fantasy drama directed by Amol Palekar, and the music was composed by MM Kreem of Tollywood. The super hit songs ‘’Dheere Jalna’’ and "Kangna Re" from the movie were reused by the music director from his early Telugu film ‘Okariki Okaru” of 2003.

The song ‘’Dheere Jalna’’ was originally composed as a love track between Sri Ram and Aarthi Chhabria for the Okariki Okaru. The success of the album made Amol Palekar adapt for his 2005 Hindi film.

It is a known fact that the Baahubali series was simultaneously released in multiple languages along with its music albums that got dubbed into all the other versions from its Telugu original. The above song was not just superhit in Telugu but enjoyed a similar success in every language it got dubbed.

This song from the Telugu movie ‘Super’ acted and produced by Nagarjuna Akkineni and music composed by Sandeep Chowta used to get telecast on popular Hindi music channels regularly at the time of its release.

This could be due to the fact that the music of the film was composed by Bollywood Music composer S.Chowta, who has given super hit music for many Hindi films besides delivering blockbusters in Tollywood where he made his film debut.