Filmi
Filmi is the music written for Indian films, especially the songs that actors mime on screen while trained playback singers provide the voices.
The songs mix Indian classical melodies with Western orchestras, pop, rock, disco or electronic beats, depending on the era. Film songs have dominated popular music in India since sound films arrived in the 1930s, and each language's film industry has its own stars. Filmi is defined by its link to cinema and not by one sound; Bollywood music is the Hindi-language part of it.
Artists it is known for: Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammed Rafi, Kishore Kumar, A. R. Rahman.
- Family
- Indian
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- India, 1930s
- Also called
- Indian film music, film songs
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,800 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have filmi among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Filmi artists
Pritam
Vishal-Shekhar
A.R. Rahman
Arijit Singh
Sachin-Jigar
Anirudh Ravichander
Atif Aslam
Yo Yo Honey Singh
Amit Trivedi
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
The filmi artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.