Best musicals in bollywood

What makes Bollywood movies tick? Believe it or not, music is a terrific box office magnet.

More often than not, if a music album is declared hit, the movie is a potential hit at the box office.

While most Bollywood films include musical numbers, all Bollywood films are not musicals. Movies produced recently have a fewer number of musicals as compared to older films. In older films, there would be up to 10 musical numbers and this number varies from 4 - 6 for films releasing in the recent times.

Here’s a compilation of some of the best musicals in Bollywood:

This album won over 13 awards that year. Aashiqui remains one of the best romantic albums Bollywood has witnessed in the nineties.

A period drama directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra, this movie had melodious tunes thanks to the lyrics penned by Javed Akhtar. The emotive love expressed in tunes of this album is simple and makes you travel in time.

Jatin - Lalit’s first album for Yash Raj Films, this album brought in a new wave of music in Indian cinema. This album ranks amongst the top 5 albums of Jatin-Lalit.

With this album, Uttam Singh created a new brand of music that combines new age styles of music. Inarguably, this was one of the best albums of 1997.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali proves that apart from being a great director, he has a great ear for music as well and has put all the right elements for this album. Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam remains a musical treasure to be savoured, over and over.

Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai (2000)

This movie won Best Music award in 2000 and also the movie that started the Hrithik Roshan wave. Songs from this album ruled the charts and made Lucky Ali an instant star.

Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Ismail Darbar joined hands again to make Devdas one of the best albums that came out that year. Songs from this album are earthy, simple, poetic and aid narration to situations in the film.

Veer-Zaara is an unparalleled album from the Yash Chopra camp. Madan Mohan’s unused tunes from 30 years ago were recreated, to form an album of sheer brilliance.

Rockstar (2011)

The sequel of one of the greatest albums (Aashiqui) of Bollywood did come with certain expectations and this one did full justice to its premise. This album topped the charts for months and swept most awards in the music category that year.

Bhansali is one of the few Indian directors who have an unerrable sense of music. Bajirao Mastani was the most loved album of the year and swept nominations and awards across major music categories.