Bollywood – Cinema of Melodramatic Musicals
Melodrama and music are important ingredients of Bollywood. Very few films, mostly parallel cinema try to be different – but mainstream filmmakers and the masses of the two lovers “Masala”. And why not, if it is well placed, some melodramatic scenes and a few good songs and dance sequences dynamics make the film a huge success at the box office.
Combining music and melodrama in a film is elegant art – it may be called “formulas” to sell, but they alone can make no guarantee of a good and successful film – it takes creativity, innovation and the art of combining these elements meets together in one package, the noise. And there is art to doing it well. . . Films like Sholay, Shaan, Om Shanti Om and Singh Is Kinng had the right combination, so there were many large and Drona forgotten who could not. And the burden of the right choice depends not only on film producers but also actors – such as Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan know only how to do it right every time.
Bollywood-style films have their origin in the early Indian and folk theater, presented larger than life characters, situations and fantasies. This work for theatrical musicals. The world of Bollywood inspired dreams. Enlarge the image of life, symbols, fantasies and dreams are gone like hot cakes in a country where many of his hard times, but nothing to add ZING to sell films are the spice of life monotonous.
Bollywood – movies, the surplus has both criticism and praise for his unique style received. To be fair, this is not only India produces and consumes melodrama in film, Hollywood is too big for a suction cup on imaging unreal life. All superhero movies, this is the last Batman, Blade Runner, based on the Unreal power packed dialogues, situations and actions – all with “extra” punch delivered. The song and dance sequences may sound funny, but they are often much-needed relief for the collection of dialogues and make the film enjoyable. These can be “very funny”.
Although the “masala” Bollywood is never out of fashion, but this should not be limited to the filmmakers, to search for this unmistakable style. Experimentation is for any art form – the imagination must never be restricted and the arrangement of the pictures should change and evolve. And in the interest of progress in art and creative spirit. ..
