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Sonu Nigam and Hachiko

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Today I have some more Indian music for you. I know I posted a Bollywood song two days ago, but I have not been able to get this song out of my head. This song comes from a very short era around 2006 of Bollywood music that took this beautiful, contemporary route. You can really hear that in this song. The thing that made this short span of time so special in terms of music, was that everything was very heartfelt and had an older twist to the way things sounded. A lot of the music composed had this beautiful call and response kind of thing with both the lyrics and the instrumentals of the song. In this song, we get that call and response with the piano and the flute, which I find absolutely gorgeous. The characteristic of this time period of music is the inclusion of the piano in a lot of songs. But it is something I am in love with. The piano is an instrument that has been used in so many different settings, from classical to jazz to modern pop. But hearing the piano in a Bollywood so