Filmi: Popular Music of India

The biggest form of Indian famous music is filmi, or songs from the Indian films, it makes up 72% of the music sales in India. The film industry of India supported music by according reverence to classical music while utilizing the western groups to support Indian melodies. Music singers such as R.D Burman, A.R Rahman, Naushad Ali, C. Ramchandra, IIaiyaraja, S.D Burman, Salil Chowdhury, Kalyanji Anandji, Shankar Jaikishan, Anu Malik, Jatin Lalit, Harris Jayaraji, Nadeem Shravan, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Himesh Reshammiya, Salim Sulaiman, MS viswanathan, Gantasala, S.D Batish and KV Mahadevan employed the principles of harmony while retaining the classical and the folk flavour. Reputed names in the domain of Indian classical music include Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar, Vilayat Khan, and ram Narayan have also composed music for films. Traditionally, in Indian films, the voice for the songs is not provided by the actors on the screen but by the so known playback singers. In the past, only handful of singers provided the voice in Hindi films. These include Mukesh, Kishore, Mohammed rafi, Kishore, Manna Dey, Hemant Kumar, Asha Bhonsle, her sister Lata Mangeshkar, Geeta Dutt, Shamshad Begum, Suraiya, Suman Kalyanpur, Noorjahan, recently playback  singer include Narayan Udit, Alisha Chinai, Kumar Sanu, K.S Chitra, Shaan, Madhushree, Nihira Joshi, Shreya Ghoshal, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Hariharan, AR Rahman, SP Balasubramanayam, Sonu Nigam, Sulkhwinder Singh, Anu Malik, Kunal Ganjawala, Anushka Manchanda, Sunidhi Chauhan, Raja Hasan and Lka Yagnik. Rock band include Indus Creed, Indian Ocean and Euphoria exist and have gained mass appeal with the arrival of cable music television.