writer, poet and lyricist Javed Akhtar observed: I believe that at any point in history, we can see that art, literature, and music and the contemporary socio-political movements are not in watertight compartments. They reflect one another. There was a sort of moral decline in the 1980s. Our sense of values had nose-dived. There is no doubt that in those years, the worst kind of film was being made in India, and by and large, the worst kind of film music was appreciated. Compare this to the era of 1950s, a time when the best film songs were written. A time when culture, decency and idealism
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