Melodrama and music are key ingridients of Bollywood. Very few movies, mostly parallel cinema, try to be assorted - but mainstream film makers and masses both love the 'masala'. And why not, if rightly positioned, a few melodramatic scenes or a few good songs and movies dance sequences crapper make the flick a runaway success at incase office.
Mingling the music and melodrama in a flick elegantly is an prowess - there may exist so titled 'formulas' which sell, but they alone can't gaurantee a well made and hit flick - it requires creativity, innovation and knack of combining these elements together in a wholesome package movies satisfies. And the prowess lies in doing this well... Movies same Sholay, Shaan, Om Shanti Om and Singh is Kinng got the mix right, while there have been many forgotten ones same Drona which couldn't. And the onus of getting it right not only depends on the flick makers, but also on the actors - some same Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan just know how to do it right everytime.
'Bollywood style' movies have their origins in early Indian and folk theatre which presented larger than life characters, situations and fantasies. These theatrical works used to be musicals too. Its this world of dreams that Bollywood has taken rousing from. Larger than life imagery, characters, fantasies and dreams delude same hot cakes in a land where many movies its difficult to find anything else than movies to add the zing and alter to monotonous daily lives.
Bollywood - the medium of excesses has conventional both criticism and approval for its characteristic style. To be fair, it’s not only India that fabricates and consumes melodrama in movies,Hollywood too is a big sucker for larger than life delusory imagery. All superhero movies, be it latest Batman or Die Hard, rely on delusory power packed dialogues, situations and action - all delivered with the 'extra' punch. The song and dance sequences may seem funny, but they are ofttimes times the much needed comfort from rally of dialogues and render the flick enjoyable. These crapper be ‘very much fun’.
Even though the ‘masala’ in Bollywood never goes out of fashion, but this should not limit the film makers from looking beyond this characteristic style. Experimentation is essential to every prowess form – the imagination should never be limited and the canvasses’ layout movies change and evolve. And this for the intoxicant of progress in prowess and the spirit of creativity…
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