Replay: Classic Bollywood Soundtracks
Replay goes back to a Hindi film soundtrack and listens to it again, song by song. Each piece looks at how the album was made, who sang and wrote it, how it sounded on release and how it sounds now, from early 2000s classics to recent favourites. It is a slow listen to the records that shaped how India hears film music.
Replay: 'Kal Ho Naa Ho' And The Nine-Minute Tune That Carried An Album
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy's 2003 soundtrack for Kal Ho Naa Ho sold 2.3 million copies, and two decades on the title song still leads and a Roy Orbison rework holds up.
By Manoj Dey
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