Music plays a huge role in Bollywood films. The music is the very soul of the movie and what eventually drags people to the theatres! It  really does wonders. The star-cast, the story, the photography of course also count but the music, oh the music of a Bollywood film, is what actually makes a difference. Bollywood has produced legends like R.D.Burman and Lata Mangeshkar whose tunes are still famous and are still heard and hummed by everyone. The music is so important that it is composed before the making of the film. There are love songs, qawalis, gazals, sad songs. All kinds of songs. Then actors, dancers and location make the songs come alive. So everything goes together, the music and the story which ultimately makes “the film.”

A Bollywood movie is definitely incomplete without a song. There used to be at least fourteen-fifteen songs, but nowadays  there are usually six or seven songs. The new trend set in Bollywood movies are the 'dance numbers' which are an added attraction for the audiences. The music of a movie makes people hum along and dance to its tunes, even at the cinema. Then all these songs are released on CDs and the clips from the film used to promote the soundtrack. In this way the film industry and music industry of Bollywood go hand by hand and are the two sides of the very same coin.

Here there are some of my favourite video clips from films I have loved watching. Enjoy them!