All popular Indian art forms have a liberal dose of music. All Indian films till date have had songs; National Film awards are given not just for the film with the best music, but also for the best song, best male singer, best female singer etc. In his book Hindi Film Geet Kosh, Harminder Singh Hamraaz has indicated that JJ Madan’s Indra Sabha (1932) had sixty-nine songs, the maximum for any Hindi movie; pointing this out, TJS George offers the musical crown to the Tamil movie Lava Kusa, which reportedly had seventy-two songs7.
