KJ Yesudas’s first Hindi film song appears in a film within a film. Jaaneman Jaaneman, from Basu Chatterji’s Chhoti Si Baat (1976), plays in a film that Arun (Amol Palekar) is watching in a theatre.

Songs are becoming like jingles these days. They are being used as promos for films,” lamented poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar at the Jaipur Literary Festival early this year. And what better evidence ...

THIRUANANTHAPURAM: It was in the 1970s that KJ Yesudas, who had by then become a household name in South India, entered Hindi filmdom. His golden voice did not go unnoticed in an industry dominated by ...