Bollywood

Indian cinema: Songs! Dances! More songs and dances! Strip away the visuals, however, and you are left with the curious feeling that the music is both a complete stranger and a long-lost friend.

Songs from Hindi-language film – “Bollywood” – are omnipresent in India. Whatever genre you can think of, one of those songs has tipped its hat to it (or picked its pockets). Indians are not fazed by unfamiliar music: they probably heard it in the film they watched last night, if only for a few secon...