World Music Culture

By Abhi1

 LONG, LONG AGO, before music videos became the talk of the town, a beautiful heroine walked out through the clouds in a dream sequence and the good-looking hero gawked and they sang. The song played itself into the collective thought of the nation and one of the reasons was that the picturisation laid the foundation of strong visuals for strong music, generally a mainstay for many an immortal number. A couple of generations after Awara caught the attention of a nation that thrives on dreams, we continue to produce great music and our cinematography is improving by leaps and bounds.


Music videos have entered our bloodstream and, in cinema, the director not only gets a captive audience to watch his film, he can also experiment and have fun filming the song sequences, without which no self respecting Indian film is complete. Yet, we have seen many great songs that, when heard, enter our hearts, occupy our thoughts and present themselves as song on our lips. But when we wait for an hour in the theatre to see how well it is picturised, we are woken

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