Bollywood songs have entertained us for the past so many years. Songs have always been an important feature of all the Hindi movies. Songs like Ajeeb dastan hai yeh, yeh raat bheegi bheegi, oh haseena zulfon wali, yeh samah, samah hai yeh pyar ka, tera mera pyar amar have been a few evergreen songs that have pleased our hearts since ages. While bollywood songs have surely given the Indian audience their dose of entertainment, they have in some way defined what Indian cinema truly stands for. It has been a major factor towards contributing and shaping up what the word Hindi cinema holds for a universal audience at large.
Musical talents like K L Sehgal, Kishore Kumar, Khaiyyam, Mohd. Rafi, R D Burman, Lata Mangeshkar, S D Burman, Asha Bhonsle, and A R Rehman have been a boon to the Indian film and music industry. Songs of the1950s and 60s signaled arrival of western music in Hindi films. The early years of Indian cinema i.e., 30s and 40s had primarily classical music with less use of instruments in the film songs. Today however, music in Bollywood has changed tremendously.
Today, Bollywood songs even though quintessentially remains the way they have been over the years, they have been packaged differently. One sure sees an evident influence of western music fused with the traditional Hindi/Urdu lyrics. Recent music composers like Salim Sulaiman, Shankar Ehsaan Roy, A R Rahman, Himesh Reshammiya have no doubt retained the aroma of Hindi music in the filim songs of Bollywood but they have also added a new dimension to these songs. There is a fresh vibrant melody that seems to be entertaining not just the youth of the country but also those that have been a fan of old melodies and songs from the yesteryear.