Grab A Bold Dose of Bollywood Film Music with new Anthology CD

By: Randall Larson
Date: Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Music has always been the heart and soul of India's "Bollywood" films, the songs in the movies remaining pivotal in drawing mass audiences to cinema houses. Songs from Indian cinema are unique and infectious virtually every Bollywood film is a musical no matter what the genre romance, comedy, adventure, action. It's a distinct an admirable style of filmmaking unique to India and its neighbors. Bollywood An Anthology of Songs from popular Indian Cinema from Silva Screen is a definitive 2 CD collection of music that captures chronologically some of the biggest hits in Bollywood from the 1950s up to today, recorded by the greatest Indian artists and music producers of all time. Artists on the compilation include Asha Bhosle one of the biggest selling recording stars in history whose name is synonymous with Bollywood; Lata Mangeshkar the 'Nightingale Of India', and featured in The Guinness Book Of Records as the most recorded artist in the world at 50,000 + songs; Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the great qawwali singer whose collaborations with Peter Gabriel made him one of the first world music stars, and several of the later tracks feature the music of today's top Indian film composer, A. R. Rahman, who known for having revolutionized the format. . Liner notes for the compilation were written by Lalit Mohan Joshi, who is a veritable walking encyclopedia on Indian film (the largest film industry in the world) and the author of Bollywood; Popular Indian Cinema.

- via www.silvascreen.co.uk