The Main Features Of Bollywood Cinema Or Cinema Masala

We can say that India is the land of cinema. Indeed, from its birth, the seventh art has generated a passion in India. Besides the first screening was given to Bombay in 1896 shortly after that of Paris. The Lumiere brothers came to present their invention there have even turned up on a few short films. Since then, India has become the world's largest producer of Indian Hindi Movies with three major centers: Mumbai (Hindi films), Calcutta region Satyajit Ray (Bengali film) and Madras (Tamil films). In addition, the number of films in other regional languages ​​(Urdu, Telugu ...) is increasing (more than 350 per year).

India also has more than 12,000 cinemas and produces about 800 to 900 films per year, three more than the United States. There would also seems, nothing but Bombay 10,000 players, 70% had already had a leading role ... India exports 85% of its production to Asia and the Middle East. But for popular films, known as Bollywood, auteur films and social films like Salaam Bombay, Fire, Monsoon Wedding, Maya (recently) they are considered by Western country and win prizes..

The term "Bollywood" refers to the Indian super-productions inspired by Hollywood studios and seasoned with local sauce (masala). In recent years fortunately, they begin to experience some success in the West despite their reputation for commercial productions kitsch aesthetics and stereotyped.

The main features of Bollywood films are as follows:

1 / Length: these are usually movies-rivers that last between 3 and 4 hours (with an intermission)

2 / The mixture of genres: there is no cinema categorized as in Western countries, fantastic movies, love movies ... etc.. In Bollywood productions, melodrama borders on musical, adventure film, the police and even the wonderful never claim to realism. It should be a movie all at once. And the Hindu tradition often reflected by allusions to the sacred. Indian spectators react to the film, they hiss, wicked slander, applaud heroes, warn of danger, sing with actors etc ... this is a very special atmosphere. For them, cinema is a fantastic way to escape from reality, and allows them to free themselves from their troubled lives and their hard and sometimes very harsh living conditions moments ... This is why the Indian cinema should be all both to offer even more entertainment and dream.

3 / Music and Dance. Regarding musical comedy aspect, always present in the films, it is necessary whenever six dances and songs in roughly three current productions, which express the misfortunes of the hero, the love scenes meeting or even scenes love, happy at last to the end of the story, for example time. These songs are sung for highlight players idolized .. The songs are not sung by the actors themselves, it does not matter because what matters is the chemistry, the judicious choice of the director who has selected the voice that is the face of his actor or actress ... These are often the same singers who are solicited. For example, Asha Bhosle, has doubled over a thousand women's roles syrupy and shrill voice. It is the same for Udit Narayan for the roles of young people first, including especially the actor Aamir Khan. The original tapes are then successfully marketed and in the streets, in India, the rickshaw drivers, taxi drivers etc. .... sing them by heart ...

4 / conventions: the actors have to play in their expressions must be understood by all Indians who do not speak Hindi, the main language of the filming of Bollywood films. The language barrier and censorship also encourage writers to embroider on simple themes with Manichaean and stereotypical characters in the service of morality.

5 / Eroticism: there's always a little pointing in this apparent respect for morality. Outfits and dances actresses are often suggestive and lustful ... To the point that the Islamic authorities take offense.

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