In the impression of most people in the country, the Indian movie is a real "embodiment of the school": the characters put love and hate hanging on the face, afraid that the audience can not see. A strong Indian movie style is even more difficult to say: the costumes, dancing, magic music to brainwash, a few hours can not stop.
After the end of World War II, with the promotion of sound film technology, Indian song and dance movies began to hang on.
When it comes to song-and-dance movies, the word "Bollywood" must be mentioned, and this movie base located in the northern Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) is synonymous with Indian cinema. It was Bollywood that officially launched the Indian song-and-dance movie to the world.
It should be noted that it is not a bad thing that song and dance movies have become the mainstream of Indian cinema. Behind this singularity, there is a unique social reason:
Most Indian moviegoers have a low level of literacy, and the majority of moviegoers are farmers and small traders, who have limited aesthetic ability. For the producers, the mythological story is a certain degree of broad-based folk "big IP", naturally favored.
In India, going to the movies is a kind of group behavior, and there are often dozens or even hundreds of friends and relatives who go to the cinema together in great numbers, comparable to the domestic mob and square dance. People go into the movie theater mostly to kill time, rather than seeking spiritual **** Ming. As a result, they also love to watch less information-dense song-and-dance movies.
Entering the 21st century, with the increasing development of globalization, Indian film and Europe and the United States and even the East of the exchange of collision is gradually more, which also makes many Indian directors can have space to play. In addition to "Ashoka", "Baahubali King" and other mythological song and dance films, as always, there are also familiar comedy film "Three Stooges in Bollywood", drama film "Wrestling! Dad", and even in the past two years, the thriller and suspense movie "Manslaughter" and so on. Indian movies have gradually revealed the "blossoming" trend.