Characteristics and Genre of Bollywood Movie - Bollywood movies, like most Indian films are mostly musicals. It is always expected to contain some catchy tunes in the form of song and dance numbers. The success of a film depends on the quality of its musical numbers. Generally the songs are usually released before the movie to increase the public's interest in the film.
The Indian public expects to be worth your money when a trip to the movies. Songs and dances, love triangles, comedy and action are all mixed together in a show of three-hour interval. Such movies are called masala, which is the name given to a mixture of spices of Indian cuisine. Like masalas of cooking, such films are a mixture of many things.
Bollywood plots have traditionally tended to be melodramatic. Often employed ingredients such as impossible love, love triangles, family ties, sacrifice, corrupt politicians, kidnappers, terrible villains, courtesans with hearts of gold, long-lost relatives, siblings separated by fate, dramatic changes of fortune, and convenient coincidences. At the same time there were also Indian films with more artistic aims and more sophisticated stories, both inside and outside the Bollywood tradition, although often lost at the box office for movies with more mass appeal. However nowadays the Bollywood conventions have changed. The large Indian diaspora in English speaking countries and the greater Western influence in India itself have taken the Bollywood films closer to Hollywood models. Kissing in films is no longer a taboo. And the plots show urban life with a Western-style meetings and fewer come to the arranged marriages.
The Indian public expects to be worth your money when a trip to the movies. Songs and dances, love triangles, comedy and action are all mixed together in a show of three-hour interval. Such movies are called masala, which is the name given to a mixture of spices of Indian cuisine. Like masalas of cooking, such films are a mixture of many things.
