Indian cinema, with its characteristic film music, has not only spread all over Indian society, but also been on the forefront of the spread of India's culture around the world. Several other Indian languages have also been used including Braj, Bhojpuri, Punjabi and Rajasthani. Some songs are saturated with Urdu and Persian terms. The language of Hindi movie songs, generally termed Hindi, can be complex. but each having songs embedded in them such that it is incorrect to classify them as 'musicals'. Within the first few years itself, Hindi cinema had produced a variety of films which easily categorised into genres such as 'historicals', 'mythologicals', 'devotional, 'fantasy' etc. In 1934 Hindi film songs began to be recorded on gramophones and later, played on radio channels, giving rise to a new form of mass entertainment in India which was responsive to popular demand. Right from the advent of Indian cinema in 1931, musicals with song numbers have been a regular feature in Indian cinema. However, the practice subsided and subsequent films usually featured between six to ten songs in each production. This was closely followed by Shirheen Farhad (1931) by Jamshedji Framji Madan, also by Madan, which had as many as 42 song sequences strung together in the manner of an opera, and later by Indra Sabha which had as many as 69 song sequences. Hindi film songs are present in Hindi cinema right from the first sound film Alam Ara (1931) by Ardeshir Irani which featured seven songs. Some Pakistani songs of musical worth are also included. However, certain recordings with melodious worth beyond 1960 are also included. Vintage Indian music presented here comprises songs, geets, music, etc (film, non-film, theatrical, folk, and classical) of the subcontinent mainly produced / recorded before 1960. Usage Attribution 3.0 Topics indian, vintage, old, songs, geet, music, classical, melody, folk, pakistani, hindi, punjabi, urdu, ghazal, hindustani, film, bhajan, instrumental, bombay, singer, tabla, sitar, sarangi, orchestra, public domain, free, raga, antique, ancient, shamshad begum, shamshad, saigal, rafi, lata, mangeshkar, mehdi hassan, kl saigal, mukesh, surinder, kaur, geeta dutt, madhubala, amirbai, karnataki, zohrabai, ambalewali, asha, bhosle, prakash kaur, naushad, anil biswas, madan, mohan, naat, qawwali, dholak, live, ramchandra, rushdi, mala begum, noor jehan, zubaida khanum, sohail, rana, gulam ali, khurshid anwar, pank, marathi, pankaj mullick, khurshid bano, munawar sultana, atma, ch atma, shankar, jaikishan, shanta apte, manna dey, keserbai kerkar, keserbai, kamala jharia, begum akhtar, agrewali, kishore kumar, raj kumar, rajkumari, mubarak begum, sardul kwatra, shiv kumar, batalvi, hemant kumar, talat mahmood, rattan bai, surindra, surendra, dholak, 78 rpm, hmv, 78rmp, odeon, columbia, record, recording, playback

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