"We still remember Lataji's (Lata Mangeshkar) and Kishore-da's (Kishore Kumar) songs because our parents had told us about them. Now it is our responsibility to pass today's songs to the future generations. I am sure these songs will also be remembered in the future just like old songs have been," Ali told IANS.

The 47-year-old, who is popular in the Bollywood, has sung for a host of Hindi movies - "Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna", "Dor", "Tum Mile", "My Name is Khan", "Jannat 2" to name a few.u00a0He praises Bollywood music, saying it has now reached a different level.u00a0"The past decade was not a very favourable period for Bollywood music but today composers like Vishal Bhardwaj, Salim-Sulaiman and Pritam have taken film music to another level and I can see it progressing only," he said.