Right from the approach of Indian silver screen in 1931, musicals with tune numbers have been a consistent gimmick in Indian cinema. In 1934 Hindi film tunes started to be recorded on gramophones and later, played on radio channels, offering ascent to another manifestation of mass excitement in India which was receptive to prevalent demand. Within the initial couple of years itself, Hindi silver screen had created an assortment of movies which effortlessly sorted into sorts, for example, "historical", "my ethological", "reverential, "dream" and so forth however each one having melodies implanted in them such that it is erroneous to characterize them as "musicals"

The Hindi melody was such a necessary gimmicks of Hindi standard film, other than different qualities, that post-freedom elective silver screen, of which the movies of Satyajit Ray are a SAMPLE, tossed the tune and move theme in its exertion to stand separated from standard cinema.[1]