Why Do 99% of Bollywood Films Have Singing And Dancing In Them?
I know 99% is an exaggeration but i’ve only ever seen one Indian film which didn’t just suddenly go into a mass singing and dancing routine.
Why do they seem to focus so much on musical type films?
Because their standard of true emotional character based acting is still very low. Their acting schools and precedence for their acting talent are mostly shipped overseas if they show promise.
Now I will try not to be patronising, but in countries where the education level is low such as India, Africa, Cambodia etc at least 80% of the films they make are musically styled since this panders to the populous’ lack of understanding of film concepts and intelligent polt lines. They would lose interest.
Thailand is probably an example of moving away from this, with a burgeoning film industry that is slowly seperating itself from the now unfashinable muscially based films.
True, most of those are martial arts based (the most famous being ONG BAK) yet 40 years ago that was exactly how the Chinese broke away from their musical based films, so the light is there. Although the Chinese still do make martial arts they are stylised and they have a growing trend of well respected plot based character films.
India isn’t there yet but it will be.
December 24th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
because thats what bollywood is
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December 24th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Because a long, long time ago, before I can remember…Originality died, some people don’t try as others hard to resurrect it, and therefore produce the same movies, one after another.
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December 24th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
What do you expect from a country with one of the most massive population and one of the worst economies?
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December 24th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
it’s a tradition in all of their movies, i thought it didn’t make sense at the end of slumdog but then my teacher told me.
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December 24th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
that’s what the genre of bollywood entails, even the most serious of movies must include joyous dance and song!
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December 24th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Because of the demands of the viewing public. People who watch Bollywood films do so for the singing and dancing and some superb acting is always a bonus.
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December 24th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
you can thank the high school musicals and hairspray and evita
in general all the musicals that did well at the box office, requires they make more to make more money.
not fond of them either
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December 24th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
Because their standard of true emotional character based acting is still very low. Their acting schools and precedence for their acting talent are mostly shipped overseas if they show promise.
Now I will try not to be patronising, but in countries where the education level is low such as India, Africa, Cambodia etc at least 80% of the films they make are musically styled since this panders to the populous’ lack of understanding of film concepts and intelligent polt lines. They would lose interest.
Thailand is probably an example of moving away from this, with a burgeoning film industry that is slowly seperating itself from the now unfashinable muscially based films.
True, most of those are martial arts based (the most famous being ONG BAK) yet 40 years ago that was exactly how the Chinese broke away from their musical based films, so the light is there. Although the Chinese still do make martial arts they are stylised and they have a growing trend of well respected plot based character films.
India isn’t there yet but it will be.
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December 25th, 2009 at 12:03 am
i noe! http://tuneofindia.com/ shows why
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http://tuneofindia.com/