Music has always been the heart and soul of Bollywood films, the songs in the movies remaining pivotal in drawing mass audiences to cinema houses.

This compilation is a collection of precious nuggets from the gargantuan archives of Saregama India Ltd, the sub-continent’s oldest and most well known record label featuring classic and contemporary sounds.

This release features many of India’s greatest singing stars including

• Asha Bhosle – Synonymous with Bollywood and enduring fame, one of the biggest selling recording stars in history
• Lata Mangeshkar – The ‘Nightingale Of India’ and featured in The Guinness Book Of Records as the most recorded artist in the world at 50,000 + songs
• Nusrat Fatheh Ali Khan – the great qawwali singer whose collaborations with Peter Gabriel made him one of the first world music stars
• A R Rahman – One of India’s top film composers who has revolutionized the format and created the musical Bombay Dreams with Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber