Hindi Dance Music

Hindi Dance Music are a wide range of songs predominantly featured in the Bollywood film industry with a growing worldwide attraction. The music first became popular among overseas Indians in countries such as South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and eventually developed a global fan base [1]

Recognition

While Hindi Dance Music do form part of Music of Bollywood, the wide-based genre songs became popular by the early to mid 2000's after the worldwide success of the song Mundian To Bach Ke which charted in various international music charts and other famous dance songs such as Kajra Re.[2] By the late 2000s Hindi Dance Music attained worldwide recognition following success of the Oscar winning song Jai Ho (song). By the 2010s, due to the growing fan base of EDM, Hindi Dance Music began incorporating it into their style of music while maintaining its diverse types of song production. This prompted the recognition of songs such as Baby Doll (Kanika Kapoor, Meet Bros Anjjan and Kunal Avanti song). The style of music was also greatly an influence for British singer M.I.A. and her album Matangi (album).

Dance

The filmi music and dances in Bollywood films are a synthesis of formal and folk Indian traditional music and dance traditions, in fusion with Middle Eastern techniques. The dances in older Hindi movies represented supposed dances of the common people, although they involved original choreography. Bollywood dances have evolved as a unique and energetic style. Since they are group dances, they are often used as joyful exercise music.[3] The style of dance has also highly influenced international artists and appears in songs such as Come & Get It (Selena Gomez song) and EDM hit Lean On.

Bollywood dances usually follow filmi songs.
Selena Gomez performing "Come & Get It" live.

The choreography of Bollywood dances takes inspiration from Indian folk dances, classical dances (like kathak) as well as disco and from earlier Hindi filmi dances.

An item number or an item song, in Indian cinema, is a musical performance that is often shown as a part of the movie but most of the times without any importance to the plot of the movie. The main aim of an item number is to entertain and also to lend support to the marketability of the film.[1] The term is commonly used in connection with Hindi, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu cinema, to describe a catchy, upbeat, often sexually provocative dance sequence for a song in a movie.[2] However, the term as understood in Bollywood parlance has entered the Kathmandu entertainment industry scenario as well. Item numbers are usually added to Indian movies to generate publicity[1] by featuring them in the trailers. Item numbers are favoured by filmmakers for the reason that since they do not add to the plot, they afford the filmmakers with the opportunity to pick potential hit songs from the stocks.[3] It is thus a vehicle for commercial success which ensures repeat viewing.[4]

Hindi film choreographers

Some of the notable choreographers of past years were [4]

Among the modern choreographers the notable are:

Choreographers known for taking Bollywood dance global:

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Planet Bollywood India's latest cultural export
  2. ↑ Panjabi MC at AllMusic
  3. ↑ Bollywood dance craze hits Yorkshire
  4. ↑ BOLLYWOOD DANCE by David Courtney

References

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