Double Meaning Hindi Songs and Its Impact on Society

Abstract

Indian cinema is unique because of its involvement of songs and dances. This is one feature which differentiate Indian cinema
from the international cinema. Hindi cinema is mainly popular because of its songs and dances. They also serve as pre-release
promotional videos. Therefore, mostly promos on television are the songs from the films. In India radio channels mainly depends on film music. You can only hear songs from latest film release which works as an advertisement of film. Therefore, in Hindi cinema songs play a very important role. This feature of including songs in Hindi films, distinguish them from the international cinema. But recently a film Slumdog Millionaire, which was shot in India by a Hollywood Director, Danny B Boyel, which also got eight Academy Awards could not resist itself from songs. Two songs have been composed by A.R. Rehman for this film, one of which also received an Oscar “Jai Ho…” Almost all the aspect of Hindi Cinema has been inspired from Hollywood. In Hollywood there is a separate genre of musical films like Singing in the Rain. But in India this genre is incorporated within the narrative structure. As we know Hindi cinema is known for its multi-genre presentation of film narrative. Since the introduction of sync sound in Indian cinema, songs have developed a lot. There were lot of experiments had been taken to present song sequences in films.