One still remembers the accordant Bhojpuri amount "Nain lad jayiye hai" from the 1961 blur "Ganga Jamuna" and added folk songs like "Bichua" from "Madhumati" (1958), "Chalat musafir" in "Teesri Kasam" (1969) "Dil ka bhanwar" in "Tere Ghar Ke Samne" (1963) and "Ohre taal mile" from "Anokhi Raat" (1968).

All these advance were chartbusters.

But the agreeableness of folk songs gradually achromatic abroad and alone already in a dejected moon does one get to apprehend their access in blur music. Accompanist Shubha Mudgal rues that boilerplate Hindi films don't accommodate amplitude for accurate folk music.

"Once in a while, a blur song appearance a abbreviate aperture breadth or a choral breadth in a folk singer's voice, but added than that folk music charcoal a agreeable assets or bank, which music admiral from the blur industry appropriate on already in a while, demography the odd tune, song, byword for bearding use as their own compositions," Mudgal told IANS.

Sukhwinder, who afresh sang a Kutchi folk song for a Steven Spielberg film, had something agnate to say.

"We do accept one-off folk songs in between, and abounding times the songs do actual well, but the abundance of such numbers is actual low," said Sukhwinder, who sang the Oscar-winning "Jai Ho" from "Slumdog Millionnaire".

In contempo times, "Piya tora kaisa abhiman" from "Raincoat", "Hikknaal" from "Dev D" and "Genda phool" from "Delhi-6" did accept the folk aspect in them, but couldn't accomplish it to the top of the charts.

Music admiral acumen that a lot of films today accept avant-garde settings and so it's difficult to fit an accurate folk song into the narrative.

"If a appearance doesn't accept a folk blow and he is lip-syncing a folk song again it doesn't accomplish sense. Imagine Ranbir Kapoor singing a Rajasthani song if the appearance has a western influence. The songs should be affiliated to the film's story," said Vishal Dadlani of music artisan duo Vishal-Shekhar.

Waajid Ali, who has composed music for films like "Welcome" and "Partner" with his brother Saajid Ali, agreed with Vishal.

"Essentially, the blur has to accept a claim for folk; alone again can it be acclimated effectively. Folk can't just be added anywhere for the account of it. Usually Bollywood takes a folk song and again modernises it to get the appropriate flavour," he explained.

Among the earlier composers who had utilised folk tunes were Shanker-Jaikishan, S.D. Burman, O.P. Nayyar and Laxmikant-Pyarelal. Younger composers like A.R. Rahman, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, Vishal-Shekhar and Piyush Mishra accept re-visited the genre, but with avant-garde touches.

While Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy gave the Kashmir folk song "Bhumro" in "Mission Kashmir" and "Banware" in "Luck By Chance", Rahman aerated the hit "Chaiyya Chaiyya" from "Dil Se" and Piyush Mishra created "Ranaji" from "Gulaal".

Said accompanist Kailash Kher, who is accepted for his rustic articulation and tunes: "Folk music has not been acclimated added generally in Bollywood in its purest anatomy because the dialects in assorted folk songs are specific to that area. If Hindi lyrics are acclimated the song gets a added reach."

Popular songs that had the folk aspect complete but with Hindi lyrics were "Dhol baaje" from "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam", "O ri Chhori" from "Lagaan" and "Phir Raat Kati" of "Paheli".

Asked how the brand can be popularised in Bollywood, Saajid said: "The aboriginal and foremost affair is the script. If scripts crave folk songs, they will see resurgence."

Saajid is now application a folk tune in accessible Salman Khan-starrer "Veer".

"The admirers needs to be added acceptant to folk singers. In the end it's a numbers game. If folk (music) starts to accomplish added money humans will alpha affairs it more. And money comes alone from the audience," said Rajnigandha Shekhawat, a folk accompanist from Rajasthan who has articulate songs for Himesh Reshammiya.

But Sukhwinder had a altered take.

"Bollywood is all about ablaze music and accumulation appeal; ambit for hardcore folk is bound even if encouraged."