Filmi (, ) is Indian popular music as written and performed for Indian cinema, mainly the Hindi film industry known as Bollywood. Music directors make up the main body of composers; the songs are performed by playback singers and it makes up 72% of the music sales in India.
Filmi music tends to have appeal across India and overseas, especially among the Indian diaspora. Songs are often in different languages depending on the industry, for example in Hindi or Tamil. Playback singers are usually more noted for their ability to sing rather than their charisma as performers. Though these singers may release solo albums, their performances in film soundtracks tend to be more noticed due to the widespread appeal of movies.
At the "Filmi Melody: Song and Dance in Indian Cinema" archive presentation at UCLA, filmi was praised as a generally more fitting term for the tradition than 'Bombay melody' "to suggest that the exuberant music and melodrama so closely identified with the Hindi commercial cinema produced in Bombay (Mumbai) are truly pan-Indian."
A playback singer is a singer who pre-records songs for use in films. The singer records the song and the actors or actresses lip-sync the song in front of the cameras, a form of singing that is characteristic of the Indian subcontinent. The songs of a film, the quality of the music and its music director (composer), lyricist and singer have often determined the success of a film. Film soundtracks are sometimes released before the release of the film itself, resulting in a disparity between the soundtrack and the songs appearing in the film. Kundan Lal Saigal was one of the earliest playback singers in Indian Music industry. Notable playback singers include Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar, Sonu Nigam.
In the 1950s and '60s, lyricists like Shailendra, Hasrat Jaipuri, Sahir Ludhianvi, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Rajinder Krishan, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Bharat Vyas, Shakeel Badayuni, Qamar Jalalabadi, Anand Bakshi, Jan Nissar Akhtar and S.H. Bihari wrote lyrics of many classic filmi songs. Lyrics tended towards the literary and drew heavily on contemporary Urdu and Hindi poetry. The south has seen poets like Kannadasan, Vairamuthu and Vaali rise to prominence, in Tamil poetry and literature along side Vayalar Ramavarma , P. Bhaskaran, O. N. V. Kurup in Malayalam Music Industry
There have also been accusations of plagiarism against foreigner musicians borrowing from Hindi filmi songs. For example, "Don't Phunk with My Heart" by The Black Eyed Peas was largely based on two 1970s filmi songs: "Ye Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana" from ''Don'' (1978) and "Ae Nujawan Hai Sub" from ''Apradh'' (1972). Both songs were originally composed by Kalyanji Anandji and sung by Asha Bhosle. Another example is "Addictive" sung by Truth Hurts, which is lifted from Lata Mangeshkar's "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai" from ''Jyoti'' (1981). This led to the copyright holders of the original song filing a lawsuit against DJ Quik and Dr. Dre, the producers of "Addictive". ''Filmi'' music composed by A. R. Rahman (who would later win two Academy Awards for the ''Slumdog Millionaire'' soundtrack) has frequently been sampled by musicians elsewhere in the world, including the Singaporean artist Kelly Poon, the Uzbek artist Iroda Dilroz, the French rap group La Caution, the American artist Ciara, and the German band Löwenherz, among others.
Baz Luhrmann showcases the song "Chamma Chamma" from ''China Gate'' (1998) in his 2001 movie ''Moulin Rouge''. Another 2001 film ''Ghost World'' featured Mohammed Rafi's song "Jaan Pehechan Ho" from the 1965 film ''Gumnaam''. The 2002 song "Addictive", sung by Truth Hurts and produced by DJ Quik and Dr. Dre, was lifted from Lata Mangeshkar's "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai" from ''Jyoti'' (1981). The Black Eyed Peas' Grammy Award winning 2005 song "Don't Phunk with My Heart" was inspired by two 1970s Bollywood songs: "Ye Mera Dil Yaar Ka Diwana" from ''Don'' (1978) and "Ae Nujawan Hai Sub" from ''Apradh'' (1972). Both songs were originally composed by Kalyanji Anandji, sung by Asha Bhosle, and featured the dancer Helen. Scores from Chennai Tamil films have appeared in productions such as ''Lord of War'' and ''The Accidental Husband.'' A. R. Rahman rose from fame in the Chennai film industry to become one of the most popular current music directors and has had a musical ''Bombay Dreams'', playing in London and New York, and scored several projects outside India. Ilaiyaraaja won the Gold Remi Award for Best Music Score jointly with film composer M. S. Viswanathan at the WorldFest-Houston Film Festival for the Tamil film ''Vishwa Thulasi'' (2005).
The song "Chaiyya Chaiyya", originally composed by A. R. Rahman for ''Dil Se'' (1998), has also been well received around the world, making several top 10 world music lists and has even been featured in several American movies. The song was in both the opening scene and credits of Spike Lee's ''Inside Man''. Rahman's earlier soundtrack for ''Roja'' (1991) was included in TIME's 10 Best Soundtracks of all time in 2005. Hindi filmi music has reached an even wider global audience due to the success of the ''Slumdog Millionaire'' soundtrack, also composed by Rahman.
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