Melodrama and music are key ingridients of Bollywood. Very few movies, mostly parallel cinema, try to be different - but mainstream flick makers and masses both fuck the 'masala'. And why not, if rightly positioned, a few melodramatic scenes or a few good songs and vibrant dance sequences can make the flick a runaway success at box office.
Mingling the music and melodrama in a flick elegantly is an prowess - there haw exist so called 'formulas' which sell, but they alone can't gaurantee a well prefabricated and impact flick - it movies creativity, innovation and knack of combining these elements together in a wholesome package which satisfies. And the prowess lies in doing this well... Movies like Sholay, movies, Om Shanti Om and Singh is Kinng got the mix right, while there have been many forgotten ones like Drona which couldn't. And the onus of effort it right not exclusive depends on the flick makers, but also on the actors - some like 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 condemned rousing from. Larger than life imagery, characters, fantasies and dreams delude like hot cakes in a country where many nowadays its difficult to find anything else than movies to add the zing and alter to monotonous regular lives.
Bollywood - the cinema of excesses has received both criticism and approval for its distinctive style. To be fair, it’s not exclusive India that fabricates and consumes movies in movies,Hollywood likewise 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 strain and dance sequences haw seem funny, but they are often nowadays the much needed relief from rally of dialogues and intercommunicate the flick enjoyable. These can be ‘very much fun’.
Even though the ‘masala’ in Bollywood never goes out of fashion, but this should not limit the flick makers from looking beyond this distinctive style. Experimentation is essential to every movies modify – the imagination should never be limited and the canvasses’ layout should change and evolve. And this for the sake of progress in prowess and the spirit of creativity…
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