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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 it was more classical with traditional and Indian style. Over the years with the influence of westernism, Hindi-music now is product which has a nice blend of Indian classical and western music.
Although there are a lot of Hindi bands these days Hindi sounds are unlike the west is generally Hindi film music. In the western countries music industry and film industry are two different entities. Film music in Hollywood is only background score most of the times and there hardly any outright songs. But in India the music industry is a subset of film industry. Even the bands which produce musical albums invariable compose or sing in the movies. So you can safely say that the best Hindi music has been from the Bollywood. If not for the Indian film industry Hindi music would have poorer.
Although classical Hindi music is rich in culture and heritage, it was generally the upper class which was I more inclined than everyone. It was Hindi movies which packaged the music in such way that it reaches to each and every class of the society. They took Hindi music to a new level which was followed by almost everyone in the country. Music in Indian cinema has touched almost each and very style of music in the world. Out of these 7 decades or so in Hindi music it is widely believed that the best Hindi sounds came in the era of 70's. In 70's with music composers like RD Burman, Bappi Lahiri etc really took Hindi film music to another level. Even today even with the influence of very fast numbers and beats there are lot of people who would still prefer listening to the songs of 70's. This clearly speaks volumes for the music during that period.
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