Indian music and the best Indian songs of all time
If the great golden run of Indian pop music peaked during the mid 1990s, by the end of the century and into the new millennium
Songs stick in our memory and become important to us for various reasons, often coloured by our associations with them, rather
Tere mere sapne, released in 1996 was not a super-hit movie, but it still stands out in memory if you lived through the time,
In the black and white Hindi films of the 1950s, it was fairly common for them to shoot a scene or two, or at least a song, on
Known mostly for his over-the-top Rajnikant extravaganzas, Sivaji and Enthiran, S. Shankar has had a much longer career as dir
This song from the 1981 film Yaarana has a special memory for me. While the song itself is a great little melody, what first c
Jo haal dil ka is a very strange song. It’s strange only in the context in which it is presented. After all, heroines in
There isn’t enough that can be said about SD Burman‘s talent as a music director. He brought to it an old-school c
Hindi films have always been very fond of having songs which have a hidden meaning to the audience and some of the players on
As a singer, KK is one of those hidden gems. Not that he is unknown by any means, but over more than a decade, he’s sung
As much of a startling change to the landscape of Hindi film music as A.R. Rahman was in the mid-1990s, his transition from Ta
The clichéd ‘running around trees’ Hindi film song was made possible by that other strange practice that’s