Masala film:
Question no. 1: Identify the major characteristics of the masala film.
Answer: I think the major characteristics of the masala films are songs and dances. We cannot thing a masala film without songs and dances. These are the main things in the Bollywood masala movie.
Question no. 2: How do they differ from the narrative conventions of Hollywood?
Answer: In the present situation, one of the best entertainment sources is film. Many different countries of the world have different kinds of viewers of films. Here we can show the differences between the narrative conventions of Hollywood.
In Hollywood, a movie can be made in a single pattern or genre. But the bollywood movies never maintain a single pattern. Glamour is the most important thing that an actor and actress must have to have. Songs are another important thing in the bollywood masala films. In bollywood, masala movie makers use various types of songs like romantic, sad and emotional, item songs, Punjabi, fusion, and some times comedy songs. But in the Hollywood, without musical films they do not emphasize songs in their films. Bollywood masala movies are always emphasize the casting, not the story. But Hollywood filmmakers are always given importance in the story.
Now we can say that Hollywood movie is different from the bollywood movie. Bollywood movie has everything like songs, dances, family drama, romance, emotion etc. For that reason bollywood movie is called masala movie.
Question no. 3: What is the significance of the songs in the masala films?
Answer: In bollywood masala film, songs play a vital role. It is hard to imagine a bollywood masala film without songs. There are different types of songs are used by the filmmakers in the bollywood masala film to express different types of motion. Now a day the main focus is given by the filmmaker is in item songs, because the item songs are generally used as advertisement in a particular film. There are different types of songs are used in Indian masala film like sad, romantic, Punjabi, Gujrati, Bengali, Sufi, fusion, rock, hip-hop etc. these songs are used in specific situation. For example when the situation is sad, they used sad songs and when the situation is romantic, they used romantic songs.
