Best Bollywood Dance Songs

Indian movies live off their song-and-dance sequences, not only entertaining cinema audiences butreaching millions of listeners even before a movie release. Here are 25 of the best recent Bollywooddance songs.

The Bollywood Music Connection

Bollywood is short for Bombay's Hollywood, the nickname given to the Indian film industry thatchurns out around 800 movies a year - double the amount of Hollywood. Other than promoting stars,Bollywood is also the biggest money spinner for the country's music industry.

So strong is the influence of movies that the names of the actual singers are virtually unknown; infact, the stars are so good at performing and lip synching the songs that many believe that they arealso the singers! As for the language - though most Bollywood dance songs are sung in Hindi, it hashow to download music from youtube to pc for free become fashionable to mix in a bit of English aswell.

Best of Bollywood Music 2011

The year 2011 is not even half over and already produced quite a few hits despite the movies'average reception and often moderate success. Here are six of the top hits so far this year:

"Character Dealer" - Ready

"Char Baj Gaye (Party Abhi Baki Hai)" - F.A.L.T.U.

"Dhinka Chika" - Ready

"Dum Maro Dum" - Dum Maro Dum

"Laung da Lashkara" - Patiala House

"Sadi Gali" - Tanu Weds Manu

Top Bollywood Hits of 2010

The biggest dance hits of 2010 were undoubtedly the two item numbers "Sheila Ki Jawani" and"Munni Badnaam Hui", performed by Katrina Kaif and Malaika Arora, respectively, that instantlymade them front page news. But the year 2010 saw other great Bollywood blockbuster and dancehits; here are ten of the biggest hits in alphabetical order:

"Ainvayi Ainvayi" - Band Baaja Baaraat

"Ayashi" - Badmaash Company

"Gal Mithi Mithi" - Aisha

"Golmaal is Back Again" - Golmaal 3

"Humka Pini Hai" - Dabanng

"Munni Badnaam Hui" - Dabangg

"Naina Mile" - Robot

"Papa Jag Jayega" - Housefull

"Sheila Ki Jawani" - Tees Maar Khan

"Uff Teri Ada" - Karthick calling Karthick

Best Bollywood Dance Hits of 2009

Surprise hits in 2009 were Anurag Kashyap's non-mainstream production Dev.D and the song"Emotional Atyachaar" - both the brass band and rock version. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Delhi 6opened to good reviews and full houses initially but could not replicate the success of the director's2006 hit movie Rang de Basanti. Musical director A.R. Rahman landed a hit with "Masakali", a songthat almost wasn't included in the soundtrack. Here are the best Bollywood how to download mp3off youtube video successes of 2009:

"Dhan Te Nan" - Kaminey

"Emotional Atyachaar" - Dev.D

"Gazab free music download sites like ares Bhayo Rama Zulam Bhayo Rama" - Aa Dekhen Zara

"Kambakkht Ishq Cheez Hai Hi Aisee" - Kambakkht Ishq

" Kya Baat Hai Kya Cheez Hai Paisa" - De Dana Dan

"Love Mera Hit Hit Soniye" - Billu Barber

"Marjani, Marjani" - Billu Barber

"Masakali" - Delhi 6

"Om Mangalam Mangalam" - Kambakkht Ishq

"Twist-Let's Have Some Raunaq Shaunaq" - Love Aaj Kal

Hard Kaur Adds Western and Punjabi Flavor

British rapper Hard Kaur came to India in 2007 and almost immediately stormed the Bollywooddance scene. Many will remember her for her early success with hit song "Ek Glassy". Shecontributed to many soundtracks while never compromising her trademark "hard" style or Punjabiroots. Many of her songs became hits that went on to top the Bollywood charts around the worldeven if the movie itself wasn't a hit (e.g., as was the case with Ugly aur Pagli). Here are Hard Kaur'stop five Bollywood hits (plus Char Baj Gaye mentioned above):

"Move Your Body" - Johnny Gaddar (2007)

"Main Talli Ho Gayi" - Ugly aur Pagli (2008)

"Bas Ek King" - Singh is Kinng (2008)

"Bhangra Bistar" - Dil Bole Haddipa (2009)

"Main Tera Dhadkan" - Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (2009)

Given the dynamic connection between Indian cinema and movie songs, it is not surprising that pre-released songs do much to popularize a movie, while even a flop can't hurt a hit song. Needless tosay, these songs also become popular at Indian weddings - make sure to check out Top IndianWedding Songs of recent years and Top Ten Bollywood Film Songs of 2012.

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