A hardened intelligence officer, Krishna goes soft on a female agent; perhaps a wife who discovers that she is gay. The R.D. Burman composition and its picturisation not only bring out the lively ...

A drumbeat starts. It is picking up pace. A grand piano joins in. Then, the trumpets and the saxophones. A flute. A trombone. Slowly, a familiar melody from the movie Solva Saal (1958) emerges and the ...

November is for nostalgia and Deepavali, says Hyderabad-based Prabha Naresh, co-founder of Dakshin Dhwani, a music group comprising members passionate about old Hindi ...

In Raneer Singh's Dhurandhar, retro melodies don’t just return, they resurrect with a vengeance. Old favourites are retooled ...

Hindi film songs are a cultural phenomenon. One needs only to see the soulful classical influences on toe-tapping beats to understand it Is melody more important or rhythm? Is the beat more appealing ...

The music of the upcoming Bollywood movie, "Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahani," starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt, is inspired by the romantic songs of the 1990s. "He wanted LPs (long play)... so the ...

This is the story about how a Hindi lullaby traveled from Connecticut to Delhi, and somehow found its way into the score for “Only Murders in the Building” four decades later. It sounds like a non ...

Gumnaam’ follows a group of strangers invited to a secluded island for a weekend that turns deadly when guests start dying ...

On a balmy Sunday evening in late April, some of India’s most beloved playback singers—including Pankaj Udhas, Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu and Alka Yagnik—got together in Mumbai to celebrate a landmark ...