'Bhagya Chakra', a Bengali film directed by Nitin Bose, is widely referred to as the first Indian film to use playback singing. In earlier films, actors would have to record their own voice to record ...

While recent releases like ‘Amar Singh Chamkila’, ‘Lootera’, and ‘Qala’ have revived interest in rich soundtracks, the era of Indian films featuring more than a dozen songs is long gone. Even iconic ...

Inside the Maratha Mandir movie theater, audience members jump to their feet as the first notes of an iconic mandolin riff play, their bodies casting silhouettes against the opening credits of a film ...