Nilanjana Bhattacharjya
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RE: Bollywood, the West, and cultural exchange (Cont.)
Carol, I absolutely agree on the need to discuss these cultural exchanges in more detail. (You'll surely recognize some even more explicit allusions to past Hollywood musical productions in the sequence I refer to above from the "musical" f ... -
actors who find themselves singing
Kelli, I'm a not so secret fan of the MI movies and consider Cruise's appearance in Tropic Thunder one of the most underrated comic performances in the last decade of film, so I appreciate your post! (I'm troubled by what your film did to m ... -
Musical Melodrama
John, Thanks so much for your thoughtful comments. You have a number of questions! Although most Bollywood films attracting significant international audiences in recent years correspond to the (romantic) melodrama, they reflect only a portion of films ... -
Musical Melodrama (cont.)
Given that most everything that would visually surprise or stun audiences in a song sequence has probably already been attempted at this point, most recent song sequences retrace what has been done in more or less innovative ways, or as I mentioned at th ... -
A number of scholars are
A number of scholars are writing on how the advent and expansion of the multiplex is affecting the culture of Indian cinema. The multiplex's ability to offer viewers more variety directly leads to Indian films' competing against Hollywood film ... -
RE: Bollywood, the West, and cultural exchange
Carol, thanks so much for your comments. What stands out to me in the two clips that you've mentioned is that the actors do in fact "perform" the song sequence-- that is, they do sing (lip-sync) and dance. This doesn't seem to happen s ...