The music of India is said to be one of the oldest unbroken musical traditions in the world. It is said that the origins of this system go back to the Vedas (ancient scripts of the Hindus). Many different legends have grown up concerning the origins and development of Indian classical music. Such legends go a long way in showing the importance that music has in defining Indian culture.

However the advent of modern historical and cultural research has also given us a good perspective on the field. This has shown that Indian music has developed within a very complex interaction between different peoples of different races and cultures. It appears that the ethnic diversity of present day India has been there from the earliest of times.

Hindi cinema has evolved itself from the conventional type to a highly innovative cinema. The kind of movies you used to see five years ago, have started diminishing and you will find more audience oriented movies now. Movies which are coming these days, try to reflect the real side even if it is the dark side of life.

Movies are gearing up to match expectations and some are even surpassing those expectations. Some movies like "Wednesday", "The Black Friday" and "New York" were above expectations and created a lot of buzz at Hindi cinema box office.

Bollywood is catching up with Hollywood trends very fast. They have even started hiring international artist for the movie. You have already seen Sylvester Stallone and Kylie Minogue dancing for Bollywood in recent movies. You may even find some bigger stars in coming movies. Indian movies are getting popular and Indian stars are making a tremendous rapport in Hollywood. Some movies are claiming hit because of foreign audience only. With luck smiling on Hollywood, new fans are looking up for Indian stars across borders.

Bollywood also has started pouring in more money into movies. Movies budgeting to 5-6 billions are making their way very frequently in a year or so. As film makers are putting so much of money into this business, marketing has gone one more step ahead. You will find stars doing photo sessions together just before the film unveils. You can easily catch them on some TV shows or even at cricket ground promoting their film.

So finally things are boiling down to basics of movie making. Now filmmakers are becoming more cautious on what the final message, they want to deliver to their audience. You will not see conventional drama of a boy falling in love with one girl and then fighting with her family to get his love.

As the types of movies are changing, the audience also expects something new and different in each coming movie. The overall taste has changed now. Movie making has come to an edge in last couple of years and it has become more issue based now. And Bollywood is ready to gel well.

The collaboration story of the Indian and western music is not very old to the Indian music. The fusion became a genre in the year 1955, when the sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan performed with western musicians in the United States. During this era, various other legends including Ali Akbar Khan and Alla Rakha also worked with the western musicians.
In the 1960's, the great sitar player, Pandit Ravi Shankar occupied the stage of the Indian-fusion music. Pt Shankar along with Bud Shank started fussing the jazz music and the Indian traditional music. This trend of Indian fusion music was appreciated and adopted by the people, as a result of which George Harrison played "Norwegian wood" on his sitar in the year 1965. After this the trend was imitated by a number of artists and bands including Miles Davis, Bihari Sharma, Badal Roy, the Rolling Stones, String Band etc.