Not Hum Aapke Hain Koun, Taal, Rockstar, DDLJ; this Bollywood film holds world record for most songs, had 71 of them

Music is the soul of a film. When we speak about Indian cinema, tune and dance routine is an integral half and it is fairly unimaginable to think about an Indian film with none tune in it. While Hollywood has a separate style referred to as musicals, all Indian movies are primarily musicals. While some Bollywood movies comparable to A Wednesday and Black don’t have any songs (they do have background music), there’s a film that holds the record for that includes most quantity of songs in it. Released in 1932, Indrasabha had a complete of 71 songs.

The film was primarily based on an Urdu play referred to as Inder (*71*) written by Agha Hasan Amanat and first staged in 1853. Indrasabha was directed by Jamahedji Jehangirji Madan and starred Nissar, Jehanara Kajjan, Abdul Rehman Kabuli, and Mukhtar Begum within the lead roles. The 71 songs had been composed by the music director Nagardas Nayak. It is listed in Guinness Book of World Records within the class titled Most songs in a film musical. Its description reads, “Madan Theatres’ Hindi film Indra Sabha (The Court of Lord Indra) (Ind 1932), the first Indian musical in verse form, had 71 songs performed during it’s running time.”

Indrasabha poster

Other Indian movies which have greater than ten songs embrace Salman Khan and Madhuri Dixit-starrer Hum Aapke Hain Koun. The Sooraj Barjatya directorial had its music composed by Raamlaxman. Imtiaz Ali-directed Rockstar, which had Ranbir Kapoor an Nargis Fakhri, featured 14 songs composed by AR Rahman. Rahman additionally composed 12 tracks for Subhash Ghai’s Taal, which was headlined by Aishwarya Rai, Akshaye Khanna, and Anil Kapoor.

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