Journey of Hindi songs   by Shailesh Mamgain

in Entertainment / Music    (submitted 2012-01-23)

Started their journey as soon as 1931 with Alam Ara, the first Indian sound film, Hindi music never turned back and grew into a giant industry within few decades. With Bollywood becoming the most vital film industry in Asia, Hindi songs even gained their weight with time.
With the invents in musical instruments, the quality of music associated with each vocals enhanced dramatically and was a very welcoming change for the nation. Initially Mahmood and Rafi took the charge of Indian melodies and made the people chanting their compositions repeatedly for decades. Main huin ek armaan bharaa by Mahmood and Chalo dildar chalo by Rafi were the two songs that ruled throughout the 50's. Then the singing queen of our nation, Lata Mangeshkar , undoubtedly the most successful and talented Indian female singer throughout the Bollywood history started her career and sung some of legendary songs with Rafi and Kishore Kumar. Aah, how can one forget him, the pioneer in Hindi cinema. His melodies are the most prestigious and soulful in the millennium. Kishore Da certainly ruled over Hindi cinema for about three decades and over the hearts of Indians forever.
With the 90's, the so called contemporary times of Hindi music, there was seen a transition of songs concept and composing. Nevertheless the equipment that were introducing to Indian context were changing the experience from the music and were bending the songs more toward music and less toward lyrics. Where the old Hindi songs were more focused on the lyrics, the songs now were focusing equally on the music of the songs so as to make the song distinct to listener.
One more explanation for this could be that initially all the music started from scratch so automatically initially we had a lot of choices for the music to cover the given lyrics. These choices got narrowed down as the number of songs exploded out with time, which finally lead to a situation where we started to search for the music, which is nowadays gets more weightage than lyrics.
Modern Indian songs are completely music composition based. Though not hundred percent valid, but modern songs are focusing entirely on the innovative music or the innovative use of instruments over a given music. This trend started as the trend of remixes of old songs started popping out in the Ernest of this century. These vague music covering the excellent lyrics of old times were unfortunately a great hit of their time. It lead us to a situation where all the songs of an album are highly bombarded with unnecessary haste of instruments and those which are not are replaced by their 'exclusive' remixes within a week or so. Nevertheless the Hindi music still got a lot of charm as still the sensible music is appreciated throughout the world.
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