Songs and The Bollywood

People in west may find it quite difficult to digest Movies with 4-6 minute songs present in them. They may find it of no use because for them movie is all about drama, emotion, action, passion (Includes both sex and violence) comedy etc. Some people try to counter argue this by saying that people in countries like India have lots of time to watch movies with songs, whereas in western countries people do not have time to sit and watch songs in cinema theaters. For them songs are meant for I-Pods and MP3 players not movies.

Lets be true, in real people of each and every country of the world have their own set of doing and perceiving things. For people in western countries, its very difficult for them to perceive movies with songs (I appreciate this fact). But its very important for entertainment lovers to appreciate the fact that there is the world of Bollywood with movies which are having 3-4 songs of 4-6 minute duration present in them.

Bollywood has a very rich history of movies with a songs of near to nine decades. During 1935-36 first bollywood songs to hit the nation were from the movie "ACHHUT KANYAA". The most prominent singers of 1930's and 1940's were K.L Saigal,K.C Dey, Pankaj Mullick, Shanta Apte, Govindrao Tembe, Ashok Kumar, Devika Rani, Surendra, and Wahidan Bai (Very few readers may be aware of these singers)."Indrasabha", released in 1932 holds the record of maximum songs in the history of Bollywood with a tally of 71 songs.

How can we forget the movies of 1960's-70's with actors running, jumping and moving around the tree while singing the song. How can we forget the melodious music of Roshan, S.D Burman and R.D Burman. These great figures have helped the bollywood in building this vast empire of music. Most of the latest bollywood songs are inspired in one or the other way by the work of these music giants of the Bollywood.

Bollywood songs are the team work of singer, lyricist and the musician, all of them complement each other.

The most famous singers of the Bollywood Were/are:

1. Kishore Kumar
2. Mohd. Rafi
3. Manna Dey
4. Lata Mangeshkar
5. Asha Bhosle
6. Mukesh
7. Udit Narayan
8. K.L Saigal


The most famous Music composers of the Bollywood are:

1. S.D Burman
2. R.D Burman
3. Roshan
4. Khayyam
5. Laxmi Kant, Pyare Lal
6. Kalyanji, Anandji


The most Famous Lyricist of Bollywood are:

1. Anand Bakshi
2. Javed Akthar
3. majrooh sultanpuri
4. Sameer
5. Gulzar

Reference: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~malaiya/music_hist.html

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