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Using popular music in soaps is a very common phenomenon!
The audiences connect to the song and that adds to the experience of the sequence. It would be very difficult for shows to create songs for every situation although that would be the ideal situation.
For a period show, the challenge is huge!
Even if you record songs fresh, they would still be made in the present and not actually back then. It would be next to impossible for them to find music that actually belonged to that period, i.e even the 1940s.
Under the circumstances, they have composed one theme song and have used a ghazal in one sequence. Even the ghazal was not recorded back in the 1940s. So, technically it does not belong to the period. It is just that it has the period feel and since many of us are not familiar with it, we don't realize that it does not truly belong to the era...!
The creatives have used film songs from films set in a period that more or less matches the period of the show. The idea is if fresh songs can be composed, then why not popular songs actually composed for the period? You cannot completely fault them for that!
While I would personally like to see the use of ghazals and folk songs, there is a large audience that enjoys the use of popular film songs. So long as they don't use contemporary film music, I think we need to give the creatives the benefit of the doubt!
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