Bollywood pop and disco (R.D. Burman era)

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Genre

Bollywood pop and disco (R.D. Burman era) · Rahul Dev Burman, son of the composer S.D. Burman, changed the sound of the Hindi film in the late 1960s. He brought in rock, jazz, Latin, funk and later disco and experimented with unusual sounds and effects. Teesri Manzil (1966) was his breakthrough. ‘Dum Maro Dum’ from Hare Rama Hare Krishna (1971), sung by Asha Bhosle, refers to hippie culture. For Sholay (1975) Burman himself sang the dance number ‘Mehbooba Mehbooba’. In the 1980s Bappi Lahiri made disco with synthesizers popular, as in Disco Dancer (1982), which was also very successful in the Soviet Union.

Listening

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  Dum Maro Dum · Asha Bhosle, 1971
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  Mehbooba Mehbooba · R.D. Burman, 1975
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  I Am a Disco Dancer · Vijay Benedict, 1982

In School of Rock

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• Film Music Map^NL Map

See also

• R.D. Burman
• A.R. Rahman
• Vijay Benedict
• Golden age of Hindi film music
• Pop song, rock and compilation score