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 ...

The 1990s ushered in an era of heartfelt ballads and thoughtful lyrics in Bollywood, standing in sharp contrast to today's ...

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 ...

The current Hindi film music industry, as we know it, is in deep trouble. That’s for sure. Film music as we knew it, even until the past decade, seems to no longer resonate with consumers, outside of ...

Songs stir emotions, they excite or soothe and sooner or later become a part of us, our memory and being. The death of Lata Mangeshkar to most Indians seemed like a personal loss. We grew with her ...

Composer Siddhartha Khosla broke down the creation of the catchy opening theme song for Hulu’s original series “Only Murders in the Building” in a recent podcast interview, detailing his influences ...

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 ...