daiyaa mai.n kahaa.n aa pha.nsii(Caravan, 1971): This song fromCaravanis probably remembered more for Asha Parekh’s crazy dance moves than its musical underpinnings, but this song is composed in a manner that is rather unique for Bollywood music. Most songs in Bollywood are sung at a f...
as well as traditional folk-music sources and includes fournritya natyas, or dramas set to music and enacted through dance. Tagore was the first non-European winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, the same year as the publication of his book of poetryGitanjali(“Song Offerings”)...