Indian music and the best Indian songs of all time
Music Era
When the film Meri Surat Teri Ankhen was released in 1963, the already venerable Ashok Kumar had been a leading man in Indian
Do Dooni Char was a film made in 1968. It was based on Shakespeare’s Comedy of Errors, a source that would be referenced
Heroes and heroines dancing between trees has been an oft repeated cliché for the tropes of Hindi film songs. Like all clich
Raj Kapoor is most often remembered for working on and in his sometimes lavish, opus-like home productions, but he did plenty
Songs stick in our memory and become important to us for various reasons, often coloured by our associations with them, rather
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
Hemant Kumar, while never gaining the sort of insane popularity as other playback singers of Hindi cinema during his time, alw
Most songs in any language end up being about love. Perhaps love provides some extra creative impetus for the penning and sing
The girl at the window or the balcony is a classic romantic trope, probably tracing back to ancient theatre, lost in the mists
I vaguely remember watching Hamari yaad aayegi in a scratchy video copy when I was younger, and only minor impressions remaine
The old Hindi song Laaga chunari mein daag had its lyrics written by Sahir Ludhianvi for the 1963 romantic film Dil hi to hai.