The History Surrounding Hindi Music
Hindi music in most ways showcases Indian culture to people around the world. Music is an integral part of a hindi movie. Since the headquarters for hindi film industry is Bombay, currently known as Mumbai, over the years its been called as bollywood. Its imperative for bollywood movies to have quality movies otherwise the chances are that it is not going to be a big hit even though the movie itself is very good, such is the expectation from the audiences in India. Invariably if a hindi movie is a super hit more often than not it would have the best hindi music.
In Indian cinema music depicts various emotions so the transformation from one kind of emotions to another is done through music. Since cinema started in India, more than half a century ago, music has been an intimate part of it. In fact there were about a bare minimum of 10-15 songs in a movie when cinema started in India. Movies were actually more in the form musical drama those days. However now times have changed there are only about 5 to 6 songs in a movie now. Hindi music seems to be evolving every decade with different patterns and styles. Initially the music was more classical with traditional Indian style of music. Over the years with the influence of western music Hindi music now is product which has a nice blend of Indian classical music and western music.