Tropedia

  • Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed. Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so. Our policies can be reviewed here.
  • All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation.
  • All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.

READ MORE

Tropedia
Register
Advertisement
WikEd fancyquotesQuotesBug-silkHeadscratchersIcons-mini-icon extensionPlaying WithUseful NotesMagnifierAnalysisPhoto linkImage LinksHaiku-wide-iconHaikuLaconic

Most of India's music industry is tied to its movie industry. Meaning that Indian music is based off of Indian films. As a whole, this genre is called "filmi music". All of india's language-based film industries (Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, etc.) involve musicals. Movie soundtracks will typically contain 5-10 songs, and there are around 1,000 films released in India each year.

The soundtrack for a Hindi or Regional musical will be made up of music from the song/dance numbers: background scores are not usually included. Each soundtrack is released before the actual film, and the success of a soundtrack can make or break the movie. In Indian musicals, the songs are not usually sung by the actors. Instead, a playback singer will record the song, and then the actors lipsynch on screen. The playback singer is often matched with an actor in the movie so the voice of the character is consistent. Similarly, when an actor does a movie in a language they do not speak, their lines are dubbed by a voice actor. For example: Aishwarya Rai (who is a native Tulu speaker) did Tamil-language films this way.

Composers, lyricists and Playback singers are well respected in the industry. A soundtrack is guaranteed to sell if a famous composer is associated with it. Possibly The most renowned composers are A.R. Rahman and Ilaiyaraaja (also playback singers). Ilaiyaraaja is the senior composer and has done tracks for all the South Indian industries (mostly Tamil) and Hindi. He has an astounding 900 movies under his belt. Rahman is the newer composer: he's the guy that did Slumdog Millionaire. Well-known singers include: S.P. Balasubramaniam, Hariharan, K.S. Chitra, Asha Bhosle, Shreya Ghoshal, Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, and S. Janaki


Recommended Soundtracks (original language titles only, in chronological order):[]

  • Sholay (1975, Hindi)
  • Shankarabharanam (1979, Telugu)
  • Ananda Bhairavi (1983, Kannada/Telugu)
  • Sagara Sangamam (1983, Telugu)
  • Swarnakamalam (1988, Telugu)
  • Geethanjali (1989, Telugu)
  • Thalapathi (1991, Tamil)
  • Roja (1992, Tamil)
  • Kathalan (1994, Tamil)
  • Bombay (1995, Tamil)
  • Indian (1996, Tamil)
  • Iruvar (1997, Tamil)
  • Minsara Kananvu (1997, Tamil)
  • Jeans (1998, Tamil)
  • Dil Se (1998, Hindi)
  • Taal (1999, Hindi)
  • Alaipayuthey (2000, Tamil)
  • Kochu Kochu Santhoshangal (2000, Malayalam)
  • Rhythm (2000, Tamil)
  • Minnale (2001, Tamil)
  • Lagaan (2001, Hindi)
  • Okkadu (2003, Telugu)
  • Varsham (2004, Telugu)
  • Dor (2006, Hindi)
  • Delhi 6 (2009, Hindi)
Advertisement