In general, Bollywood films are like musicals. The audience expects to see catchy music. There are usually song-and-dance numbers woven into the script. Often, the success of a film depends on the quality of such musical numbers Very often, the film music is released before the film. It helps make the audience bigger.A good entertainer is generally referred to as paisa vasool. This means money's worth. Songs and dances, love triangles, comedy and dare-devil thrills are all mixed up. Such films are called masala films, after the Hindustani word for a spice mixture, masala. Like masalas, these films are a mixture of many things.Bollywood films tend to be longer that Hollywood ones. A normal Bollywood film is about 3 hours long.Bollywood plots are usually melodramatic. They frequently use stock elements such as star-crossed lovers and angry parents, love triangles, family ties, sacrifice, corrupt politicians, kidnappers, scheming villains, Hooker with a heart of gold, long-lost relatives and siblings separated by fate, dramatic reversals of fortune, and convenient coincidences.Bollywood films are films produced for the masses. Other Indian films are produced inside or outside of the Bollywood tradition. They sometimes try to set higher standards. They often lose out at the box office to films with more mass appeal.Bollywood conventions are changing, however. A large Indian diaspora in English speaking countries, and increased Western influence at home, have nudged Bollywood films closer to Hollywood models. Film kisses are no longer banned. Plots now tend to feature Westernized urbanites dating and dancing in discos rather than arranged marriages.our earliest films iberal doses of sex and kissing scenes in them Strangely, it was after Independence the censor board came into being and so did all the strictures.
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