retrobollywood

Retrobollywood mines Hindi cinema's golden age - the 1950s through 1970s when Bollywood's music industry was genuinely innovative rather than standardized. The station plays soundtracks from classic films, showcasing composers like Rafi, Shankar-Jaikishan, and Kalyanji-Anandji who defined the form. This isn't nostalgia for its own sake. These soundtracks carry genuine technical sophistication. Orchestral arrangements that wouldn't sound out of place in Western cinema, but built around Hindi melodic sensibilities. Singers with instrument-quality control over their instruments. That combination…