Years ago, there was a time when the album of a film grew on the masses, eventually drawing them into theatres. Songs were slowly but steadily reduced to being promotional tools. And with time, ...

A hardened intelligence officer, Krishna goes soft on a female agent; perhaps a wife who discovers that she is gay. The R.D. Burman composition and its picturisation not only bring out the lively ...

Hindi film songs are a cultural phenomenon. One needs only to see the soulful classical influences on toe-tapping beats to understand it Is melody more important or rhythm? Is the beat more appealing ...

November is for nostalgia and Deepavali, says Hyderabad-based Prabha Naresh, co-founder of Dakshin Dhwani, a music group comprising members passionate about old Hindi ...

A drumbeat starts. It is picking up pace. A grand piano joins in. Then, the trumpets and the saxophones. A flute. A trombone. Slowly, a familiar melody from the movie Solva Saal (1958) emerges and the ...

For all Hindi music fans, check-out Aasha Songs jukebox. This is a compilation of Aasha Movie songs. The track list includes songs like 'Eena Meena Deeka, Ek Pardesi Raat Ko, Soja Re Chanda Soja, Chal ...

Alokananda Dasgupta’s sublime and stellar background score in Jubilee is one of the strongest pillars the much-lauded series rests on. The Kolkata girl — she is the daughter of the late film-maker ...

KJ Yesudas’s first Hindi film song appears in a film within a film. Jaaneman Jaaneman, from Basu Chatterji’s Chhoti Si Baat (1976), plays in a film that Arun (Amol Palekar) is watching in a theatre.

On presence of Hindi in Bollywood music: Today, every music creator is making music for a pan-India audience. While music has no boundaries, language does. In this scenario, there are two three ...