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01/08/09(Thu)13:29 No.2512574People who say they didn't like the dancing, or didn't understand why its there, don't themselves understand Bollywood.
In
India, it's ILLEGAL for them to show anything sexual at all in a movie.
Violence fine up to a point. Sexuality, never. Not even kissing. (a Big
example is that Richard Gere fiasco with the Bollywood startlet, don't
have a link, it was allover the news for a while, look it up.) There
was even talk of banning the Bollywood actress from films who Richard
Gere kissed in front of TV cameras, even though she supposedly had no
idea Richard Gere was going to kiss her.
So because Bollywood
doesn't allow anything sexual, and the people of India can't watch
anything but "safe" American or European movies (so pretty much like
pixar stuff) they've developed they musicals to the point where
practically every movie they put out is a musical, full of singing and
dancing.
So the kiss at the end of Slumdog Millionaire? Gigantic
no-no. Probably got the movie banned, and probably got the actors
banned from Bollywood as well. Which was also why it was so epic.
Thus
this is why there was the singing and dancing at the end. Kind of a
fuck you to Bollywood. Guess what? We're gonna kiss, then we're going
to have a singing and dancing scene, just because we can. |