2000s Ringtones

The Bollywood sound of the 2000s

The 2000s contributed 141 ringtones to the ToneVault library, sourced from 52 Hindi films across the decade. The decade's most-represented voice in our cuts is Sonu Nigam, who appears on 17 of these tracks. Behind the scenes, the most-credited music director here is Pritam with 31 compositions. The single film whose soundtrack we mine most heavily for ringtones from this decade is Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na, with 5 separate ringtone cuts.

The 2000s were when Bollywood went global. The decade produced item-song chartbusters, multiplex-era romantic comedies, and the rise of Pritam as the first call of every major producer.

These ringtones span an enormous range — from the orchestrated grandeur of Kal Ho Naa Ho to the percussive item numbers of Don and Race.

Mood-wise, the 2000s in our catalogue leans romantic — a fitting reflection of where Hindi film music's gravitational centre sat during this period. The 3,532,789 combined downloads on this page are a useful proxy for which moments of the decade still feel current on a 2026 phone. The high-download cuts tend to be the songs that have outlived the films they came from — the kind of tracks that play at weddings and family gatherings decades after release, and that feel right as a ringtone precisely because they've never quite stopped being part of the cultural conversation.

If you're building a ringtone collection that maps to a specific period of your own life — the years you were in college, the years your kids were small, the years you worked your first job — pick the decade that lines up and scroll. The right ringtone is almost always a song you already half-remember.