Khushi Bagwar
2 min readDec 29, 2023

Indian 90s pop culture:

Indian pop music is also called Indi-pop. The culture of pop music is basically originated on the south Asian region with the support of the playback singer Ahmed Rushdi’s song “ko ko korina” in 1996. The spread of pop music gained popularity in 1980s. Since the rise of “ko ko korina” India, Nepal Bangladesh and Sri Lanka adopted the pop culture. Since, Rushdie’s success Christian started performing jazz in various night clubs and events. They would mainly cover the famous jazz track or covers Rushdie’s songs.

The pop music gained popularity with the support of the Pakistani singers Nazia and Saheb Hassan forming a sibling duo. Approximately 60 million copies were sold by Biddu. Biddu was one of the first successful disco producers in the early 1970s. The 90s was a time for independent artist and bonds away from the crowd and glamours of Bollywood, these artists pushing great albums and music to which our whole generations are fond of and could be seen swinging to. Let us remember the amazing pop era of 1990s. which had a wonderful talent. It still tunes and we still sway to.

India was also introduced to the Punjabi pop song mainly by Daler mehndi and classical pop genre by none other than Shubha Mudgal who brought “Ab ke sawaan aise barshe “to life. Punjabi pop tracks are still winning the hearts of many people of our generation like, Sukhbir’s “Ishq tera tadpane”. Bally Sagoo’s “Gore Naal Ishq is another extremely popular Punjabi track. Falguni Pathak is another name which comes to the Indian pop culture. Her music is based on traditional state of Gujrat. She is also known as Punjabi queen.

In the late 2000s Indian pop music faced a strong competition with faced with filmi music. Many pops singer stopped releasing their album instead start singing for movies . Recently pop music has taken an interesting turn with the remixing of songs from past Indian movie songs by adding new beats to it.

- "music once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit and never dies".