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Essay On Hindi Music

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Hindi film music, also known as “Bollywood” music, is one of the most popular forms of music in the world today [1]. The word “Bollywood” is actually a play in Hollywood, with the “B” derived from Bombay which is now known as Mumbai, the centre of film world. Bollywood forms part of one of the largest film production industry in India and has significantly influenced the Indian culture [2]. According to an estimate, around 14 million of India’s population enjoys bollywood movies on a daily basis [3]. Bollywood has an amazing fan base and an incredible mass appeal. Bollywood has a great impact on the common lives of Indians week in and week out. In 1913, Dadasaheb Phalke, the father of Indian Cinema, released the first ever Indian film, Raja Harishchandra (translation: Truthful King Harishchandra) [2]. In the 1930s, more than 200 films per year were being produced by the industry. Ardeshir Irani’s Alam Ara (translation: The Ornament of the World), released in 1931, was the first Indian sound film and it turned out to be a major commercial success. Unlike Hollywood, the initial growth in the industry was slow. Post India’s independence, according to film historians of Hindi cinema, the “Golden Age” started in the late 1940s until 1960s. This period marks the production of the Hindi films …show more content…

Almost all of the Bollywood movies feature several songs that are very famous in India. They are often referred to as the heartline of Indian popular culture [1]. Actually, Bollywood songs are one of the items which are searched mostly on the Web from India. This music has influenced lives and cultures globally over decades. However, as far as we know, till date there has been no computational analysis of bollywood songs, except for a recent study that classifies Hindi songs according to moods. In this paper, we present a computational analysis of bollywood songs over a period of two

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