The best Bollywood songs of all time (part I)

What emerged through the weeks of putting this story together was a wonderful look at our film history. Old songs sounded as fresh as those composed yesterday, forgotten melodies made us stop and hum along, lyrics made us re-examine the nature of life itself. So what are your favourites?

We chased them for days, weeks. Our esteemed jury comprised 15 fabulous people from the music industry - singers, music composers and lyricists. Bringing them together was not an easy task. What was tougher still was for them to nominate what they thought were the top 10 Hindi film songs, ever. (No, they couldn't choose the songs they were involved with). But they came up with interesting, refreshing, sometimes surprising choices.

What emerged through the weeks of putting this story together was a wonderful look at our film history. Old songs sounded as fresh as those composed yesterday, forgotten melodies made us stop and hum along, lyrics made us re-examine the nature of life itself. So what are your favourites? Are they in here?