Indian music + best Indian songs of all time
Music Era
The reason the Indian film industry, as a collection of all its many regional language industries, has been the most prolific
By the time the 1959 film Anari came along, Raj Kapoor was a well established presence in the Hindi film world, as was his his
In Hindi films and songs, like in many other things, there are the popular, there are the highly regarded and lauded, and then
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
Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi is the first Hindi film I remember seeing in its entirety. I’m sure there were others before then,
Hasrat Jaipuri‘s playful lyrics for Woh Chand Khila Woh Taare Hanse are an enduring legacy of the 1959 Hindi film Anari.