Last week saw the release of Aami, the biopic of celebrated author Kamala Das (aka Madhavikutty, Kamala Suraiyya). The hindi songs mp3 free download itself may not have garnered great reviews, but does boast an impressive soundtrack. Interestingly, of the five songs, three are ghazals in Hindustani, written by Gulzar and set to music by master percussionist Taufiq Qureshi. Aami is the latest in the recent, increasing trend of the use of Hindi songs in Malayalam films. In fact, no other Indian film industry possibly has as many songs written in other languages (predominantly Hindi) as Kerala.

It can all be traced back to the love for raees movie song download and Hindustani music in Kerala that is said to have originated through the Muslim population in North Kerala, particularly Kozhikode. The mehfils hosted in rich households in the town reportedly used to feature musicians from across the country, a practice that continues.

A bit of Bengal

In the early 20th century, these mehfils brought the Bengali musician Jan Muhammed Khanto Kerala. His son, Mohammad Sabir, went on to find his way into Malayalam movies, and, under the pseudonym Baburaj, became one of its finest composers. One of his most significant contributions was the introduction of Hindustani music. In fact, one of the earliest half girlfriend songs free download in a Malayalam film is considered to be a Meera bhajan composed by Baburaj and sung by S. Janaki for the 1963 film Ninamaninja Kalpadukal.

An important offshoot of this penchant was that music directors from the Hindi film industry began working for Malayalam films. The oft-quoted example is Salil Chowdhury in the cham cham song download Chemmeen. Tthere have been many since - veterans like Ravi (various films), Naushad (Dhwani, 1988) and Laxmikant-Pyarelal (Poonilaamazha, 1997) to the more like Vishal Bhardwaj (Daya, 1998, Carbon, 2018) and Amit Trivedi (Anthiponvettam) , 2008). Chowdhury and Ravi in particular went on to a prolific run in the industry, the latter as well as a couple of Kerala State Film awards for his compositions. Interestingly, the collective Malayalam portfolio of these composers rarely features a Hindi song.

It is in the 80s that the Hindi song routine appears to have gathered momentum. Of course, before that there were instances like the 1974 movie Ayalathe Sundari, which had a dream song sequence featuring comedy actor Adoor Bhasi and Sreelatha romancing to 'Kora Kaagaz Tha' from Aradhana. But this was still a tiger zinda hai mp3 song originally from a Hindi film. Thaliritta Kinakkal (1980), with music by the little-known Jithin Shyam, also had a dream sequence with the comic pair singing a Hindi song. Except, in this case, the song was an original, titled 'Shabaab Leke Wo', written by Ayish Kamal and sung by Mohammed Rafi. This, incidentally, is Rafi's only recording for a Malayalam film.

Apparently, the original plan was more ambitious - to make Rafi sing in Malayalam. However, he was reluctant to sing in a language he was unfamiliar with, and was convinced to record a Hindi song instead. The movie also had a ghazal, 'Saaz-E-Dil Tod Do', sung by Yesudas.

Blockbuster fusion

Three years later Jnanpith-winning writer MT Vasudevan Nair's directorial venture Manju, with seven of its eight songs penned by Gulzar in Hindi and composed by MB Sreenivasan.

The 90s opened with one of the biggest musical blockbusters or all time, His Highness Abdullah. To introduce the leading man, Mohanlal, who played a Hindustani singer in the film, composer Raveendran, and lyricist Madhu created the very popular qawwali, 'Tu Badi Masha Allah',

The very next year, Vishnulokam, Raveendran adapted Shankar-Jaikishan and Shailendra's 'Awara Hoon' and Mohanlal sing the track.

Vidyasagar, several of whose compositions have had Hindi verses, made his Malayalam debut soon after, in 1996. One of his most experimental works was in Millennium Stars, a movie centered on a Colonial Cousins-like musical duo, the fusion-based soundtrack or which had a mix of Malayalam and Hindi lyrics.

And so the practice has continued, bringing us to 15 Hindi songs in 2017 alone, including one of the biggest hits, 'Do Naina', from Angamaly Diaries.

So what does this mean for the bigger tere sang yara mp3 download music scene? Not much. There has indeed been a rise in the number of Hindi songs but that is not the case at the expense of the Malayalam ones. In fact, in 2017 the Malayalam film industry performed much better musically than the remix-ridden Bollywood. At this rate, Malayalam cinema could well become the alternate avenue for Hindi film songs.