This small book contains the most popular and the traditional raags of Hindustani classical music, e.g. yaman, bhupaali, kaaphi, bhim palaasi, bhairav, bhairavi, maalkauns, kedar, bihaag, lalit, jaunpuri, kaanadaa, miyaan malhaar, and so on that had been used in the ? lm songs of Bollywood in the golden era by the greats like Anil Biswas, S D Burman, Naushad Ali, C Ramchandra, Madan Mohan, R D Buman, Jaidev, Salil Chaudhury, O P Nayyar, Roshan, Khayyam, Sardar Malik, Hemant Kumar, Ghulam Hyder, Hriday Nath Mangeshkar, and others. A humble attempt is done to introduce the melody of the raags through simple grammar like thaat, vaadi samvaadi, initial elaboration or aalaap, taan- the staccato application of notes meant for singing in solfa and aakaar. All the raag related information are given in the book for the learners and the music lovers so that they can relate the tonal coontour of famous ?lm songs, bhajans and abhangs, etc. with the well-known melodies of north Indian music.