Musical-oriented films like Amar Singh Chamkila, Lootera, and Qala managed to win hearts across the globe. The era of Indian films has such films and songs in the past. Many films had 10 or more songs, with Hum Aapke Hain Koun and Taal exceeding a dozen each. But, did you know these films did not hold the world record for the majority songs? A film that was released in 1932, is one of the first talkies from India that had a staggering 72 songs. Indrasabha, a 1932 film that had the era of musicals in Indian cinema, had 72 songs.
Some suggest that the tracks’ number was 69, while others put it at 71 due to the presence of different versions of one song in the film. The film holds the Guinness Book of World Records and is recognized as the film with the most songs in 1980. This film was released after Alam Ara, the first Indian film with sound. Directed by Manilal Joshi, Indrasabha ran for 211 minutes long and was based on Inder Sabha, an Urdu play written by Agha Hasan Amanat. The film followed the play’s tradition of using music to introduce characters. In The Cambridge Guide to Asian Theatre, James R Brandon penned down the play which had 31 ghazals, 9 thumri of gaya and Benares gharana, 4 holis, 15 songs and two chaubolas and five chhands. Limca Book of Records shared that the film had a song for ever major character
Sooraj Barjatya’s 1994 musical drama Hum Aapke Hain Koun had 14 songs, while Subhash Ghai’s Taal had 12 songs and Aditya Chopra’s Mohabbatein had nine tracks. Imtiaz Ali’s 2011 rock ballad Rockstar also had 14 songs and Shah Rukh Khan’s Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenga had 7 songs. Their combined track count is 56, which is three-fourths of what Indrasabha had.
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