Bollywood Star Dust

Melodrama and music are key ingridients of Bollywood. Very few movies, mostly parallel cinema, try to be different - 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 vibrant dance sequences can make the movie a runaway success at box office.


Mingling the music and melodrama in a movie elegantly is an art - there may exist so called 'formulas' which sell, but they alone can't gaurantee a well made and hit movie - it requires creativity, innovation and knack of combining these elements together in a wholesome package which satisfies. And the art lies in doing this well... Movies like Sholay, Shaan, 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 getting it right not only depends on the movie 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 taken inspiration from. Larger than life imagery, characters, fantasies and dreams sell like hot cakes in a country where many times its difficult to find anything else than movies to add the zing and spice to monotonous daily lives.


Bollywood - the cinema of excesses has received both criticism and praise for its distinctive 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 unreal imagery. All superhero movies, be it latest Batman or Die Hard, rely on unreal power packed dialogues, situations and action - all delivered with the 'extra' punch. The song and dance sequences may seem funny, but they are often times the much needed relief from rally of dialogues and render the movie enjoyable. These can 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 distinctive style. Experimentation is essential to every art form – the imagination should never be limited and the canvasses’ layout should change and evolve. And this for the sake of progress in art and the spirit of creativity…

Bollywood is the informal term commonly Hindi-language film in Mumbai, India's industry. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the entire Indian film, it's just part of the Indian film industry .Bollywood is India's largest film producers and film production in the world's largest centers. The name is a portmanteau of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) and the Hollywood film industry center of the United States.

Formally known as Bollywood Hindi movies. Although the frequent use of poetic Urdu words is fairly common. There is a dialogue and a growing number of Indian songs in English also. It is not often seen in the video, function, and English words and phrases, even whole sentences of dialogue.

Bollywood films are mostly musicals, and is expected to be included in the Song and dance numbers woven into the script form of mouth music. Success often depends on the film and so on. Indeed, the film's music is often released before the film itself, the quality of music data, and help to raise the audience.

Indian audiences expect a good artist full value for their money, often referred to as paisa vasool, (literally, "the value of money"). Songs and dances, love triangles, comedy and dare - devil stimuli are mixed in one to three hours long with an intermission of the event. This is called masala films, after the spice mixture for the Hindi words. masalas, these movies, such as action, comedy, love, etc. There are many things most of the mixture of film hero who can fight off all the bad guys themselves.