Who 'inspired' Lootera's stunning background score?

Vikramaditya Motwane’s Lootera is arguably one of the most awaited films this year. Be it the cast - the unusual pairing of Ranveer Singh and Sonakshi Sinha - or the fact that Motwane’s first film Udaan was a runaway success with both the masses and the critics, all eyes are trained on Lootera. One has to give it to the filmmaker, he doesn’t disappoint. Not at least with the trailer. The beautifully shot promo stokes interest in the film way more than what tabloid gossip about the lead pair have. [caption id=“attachment_665044” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  A screengrab from the Lootera trailer on YouTube. Agencies.[/caption] It’s artfully shot, tastefully narrated, recreating a period feel effortlessly - it tells you just enough about the film, to keep you hooked for a few more months. And one of the main ingredients that went into making the trailer such a stunner is probably the background score - a rich, almost classical composition that starts mellow and reaches an enthralling crescendo as the trailer ends. However, there seems to be a rider. On the comments section of the YouTube trailer of the film, a viewer seems to be accusing music director Amit Trivedi of lifting his score from a 2011 Hollywood production, One Day. Firstpost checked the lead background track of the film and a violin refrain of the Anne Hathaway-starrer One Day track is, unfortunately, quite similar to the one in Lootera. However, it is probably not right to accuse Trivedi as we are not sure if he created the background score for Lootera. The One Day track had been created by British composer Rachel Portman who has scored music for dozens of English and Hollywood films. Here is the One Day track found on YouTube. Check for yourself! However, Vikramaditya Motwane writes on a blog:

Ok, to clarify – The music of the Lootera teaser trailer hasn’t been copied from One Day. The theme is sourced from a small musical bit composed by Amit Trivedi for a song that’s in the film, which we decided to expand and turn into a full fledged theme for the trailer. Unfortunately it ends up sounding a lot like One Day but I assure you that it’s coincidental. When you (eventually) hear the song you will understand and see where the theme was born. On Udaan – I have said this before and I will say it again (since I’m not allowed to live it down on this blog) that we made a mistake on the trailer. We structured it around the trailer of Where The Wild Things Are and we were lazy in correcting it later. And I take full responsibility for that and have never tried to defend it. And as far as the credit for O. Henry goes, it isn’t something that I’ve ever tried to hide, even when I wanted it to be a surprise and it was leaked to the press. It was always on the cover of the script and will be in the film loud and clear when the time comes. I’m hoping this clarifies things somewhat, at least from my end…

Watch the Lootera trailer here: