New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) With an increasing number of Indian filmmakers seeking international applause, the country's music industry is also adapting fast for global listeners.

And if Hindi film music composer-cum-singer Himesh Reshammiya's performance to a sell-out crowd at the famous Wembley Arena in London, legendary singer Asha Bhosle's series of duets with Western singers as well as recently with Australian cricketer Brett Lee, and renowned composer A.R. Rahman's "Bombay Dreams" world tour are an indicator, the world seems to be eagerly waiting for the Indian tune.

Much like Indian cinema, India's music industry was able to withstand the onslaught of Western music in spite of the economic liberalisation. While homogenised mass consumption is on an upswing there are plenty of Indian performers who are trying to build a bridge between tradition and modernity.

From classical strains in the heyday of the talkies, India's music industry now encompasses all song genres, feels senior journalist Chandan Mitra. Since the 1990s, popular music has gradually shifted out of the sole orbit of cinema and now revolves in several trajectories such as remixes, bhangra-pop, Indipop and also ghazals, though the high noon of the last genre has now waned.

An array of talented composers like Rahman, Reshammiya, Nadeem-Shravan, Anu Malik, Anand-Milind, Anand Raaj Anand, Ismail Darbar and Shantanu Moitra have emerged to enthral all with their creativity.

"Rahman and his compatriots have demonstrated that India is now ready to break the set moulds of popular music. They have also given us confidence in India's innate talent to produce cross-country melody: music from the south is today as popular in the north as bhangra is in the discos of Bangalore. Popular music has welded India together even more than cinema or TV soaps," says Chandan.