You know, when I was first looking over the questions for this week's blog post and I read the second question, I immediately jumped to the conclusion that no, Bollywood movies are not necessarily musicals. I am not exactly sure why I did that, but after discussing it with a couple people and watching Awara, I have changed my mind about Kapoor's film. There are a few instances of song and dance in the film, including the famous dream sequence, where the singing and dancing seem to be non-diegetic (well, the singing/dancing in the dream sequence could be diegetic - or I guess meta-diegetic, heh), leading me to believe that it has to be considered a musical.
The first glimpse (if I am remembering correctly) that the viewer gets of a song/dance number is when Raj's mother and father are in a boat and the others around them are singing and repeating things such as "beware," etc. that warn the two of bandits, but in reality, I am assuming that one of them/maybe multiple would just be warning the two without the out-of-place musical number. That is the keyword (or I guess hyphenated string of words): out-of-place. The reason I would consider this film a musical is because musical numbers are used at moments where there would definitely not be anyone singing/dancing in reality. I mean, I guess it is possible that while Raj and Rita are out on the boat together they could potentially be singing, but it is also not horribly likely. So I think I would now consider Awara a musical.
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