Without taking any names, he added: "They are not giving people a choice to listen to other genres. "For that we have to fight against the system (in filmdom), but Indian cinema is very passionate about promoting our culture and our country," he said, adding that "the Indian music industry is being ruled by a couple of…music labels". However, Salim rues that these "songs are not promoted like item songs". The music duo always make sure to create songs with a classical touch - be it "Rasiya" for the film "Kurbaan" or "Aayo ji" in "Satyagraha". The problem is that most Indian filmmakers and record labels are not trying to promote music, which is made classically," Salim told IANS. I don’t feel that Indian classic can ever deplete from the music industry. "They love our own Indian music, whether it’s Bollywood or classical. I feel that in today’s time, wordings of songs need to be changed, as young generation is in love with the old style of melody," Lahiri, who has lent his voice for a song in forthcoming film "Hunterrr", told IANS.įor Salim Merchant of music composer duo Salim Sulaiman, hip-hop and EDM (electronic dance music) genres are mainly heard in metro cities, but in places like Ghaziabad, Jaipur, Rourkela, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar and other small cities, they prefer more ‘desi’ tunes. Veteran singer-composer Bappi Lahiri, who has always had a pulse of the listener’s taste, says "melodious tracks are always appreciated". I feel that if we have so much to give to the world in terms of shayari and all, why don’t we utilise it?" Raja told IANS.
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India is a vast country when it comes to lyrics. "Change is a constant and after every 15 years, there is recycling of the songs. Its tunes, composed by Anu Malik, are thus rightly suited for its setting.Īltaf Raja, another singer who has created ripples in the music industry with his album "Tum toh thehre pardesi", calls the resurgence of 1990s inspired songs a "cycle". The story of "Dum Laga Ke Haisha" is set in the 1990s, just when audio and video cassettes were going out of fashion. It’s time to think what are we giving to society with such meaningless songs," he added. We force people to hear such songs and when people hum it, we say it’s a hit. The audiences are not so useless that they’ll listen to songs like ‘Chaar bottle vodka’. This is the reason why we are going through such a bad phase (in music)," Sanu told IANS. Producers have no confidence on directors directors have no confidence on music directors and music directors have no confidence on singers. There are many reasons for the lack of it, and one of it is lack of confidence. "We are missing meaningful and lyrical songs nowadays. Kumar Sanu, one of the post-romantic voices of 1990s and the voice of songs like "Tu" and "Dard karaara" from "Dum Laga Ke Haisha", feels that it’s time to give listeners some "good music". In such times, the music of "Dum Laga Ke Haisha" came as a clutter-breaker. "Mujhe neend na aaye", "Tu meri zindagi hai", "Dekha hai pehli baar" and "Maine pyar tumhi se kiya hai" are cases in point.īut in current times, the music charts are topped by the likes of rap numbers and songs with double entendre lyrics.
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Singers and composers of that era hope that the "melodious times" will some day return to filmdom.ĭuring the 1990s, Bollywood composers came up with some memorable romantic tracks. What the tunes of "Dum Laga Ke Haisha" managed to do for music lovers hasn’t happened in Hindi filmdom for a long time – they have enlivened the aura of romantic, lyrical and meaningful songs of the 1990s.