Jane Foyle once said: "The ritual function of musicals is to reaffirm and clarify the place that entertainment occupies in the lives of their audiences."
musicals reflect romantic emotions with their best performance skills, express joy, sadness, joy , sadness and other emotions have become an indispensable film type in the film to vent human desires and dreams. Indian song and dance movies, with their grand and gorgeous settings, colorful and splendid colors, pleasant music, light and lively dances, and the unique dream mechanism of song and dance films, have created a rich visual feast for us.
1. Many people started out with the beautiful singing and dancing in "The Wanderer" and "Caravan" when they first got
acquainted with Indian movies. "Abalagu, ah-Abalagu, ah--" "The Wanderer" filmed in the 1950s was all the rage in China, and the Chinese first experienced the ethnic customs of Indian films - cynical pull Here, the humorous and playful singing and dancing, the wet sari of the heroine, and the romantic love competition, all these have become the eternal nostalgia in the hearts of Chinese people of that era. Then the "Caravan" in the 1970s brought us to the happy gypsy caravan team, the beautiful and intelligent girl Lida, the arrogant "Little Pepper" Lisa who dared to love, dare to hate the barbaric and arrogant, accompanied by a relaxed wandering life, and then Coupled with the murderous pursuit, it presents us with a picture of a happy life full of legend and romance.
In the 1990s, Indian song and dance films once again came into our sight with the improvement of shooting skills, the innovation of pictures, and the wonderful choreography of dance. The "Monsoon Wedding Banquet" in 2001, with the help of the "wedding" event, showed how Indians find their identity in the collision of traditional customs and modern life, eastern civilization and western civilization under various cultural conflicts. The last paragraph of the film, "Group Dance in the Rain", is full of ceremonial joyful atmosphere and reflects the unique emotion of a nation. The masterpieces "Once Upon a Time in India" and "Ashoka" shot in the same year are based on history, and they are about love, singing and dancing, and religious beliefs, the most basic topics of the Indian people. Then in 2002, the big-budget musical "Devdas", which was shot with a huge investment of 130 million US dollars, really pushed the Indian musical film to its peak. Hollywood is brilliant, graceful and rich, and works to the fullest. The film's heroine is Ashwarya Rae, dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world" by Julia Roberts, and the male lead is Shajak Raj, known as "Bollywood's Tom Cruise". Ruhan. The film is based on the work of the same name by the famous Indian novelist Sarat Chandra, "Devdas". The story tells the story of a couple who cannot be combined due to the restrictions of the caste system and traditional customs. In the obstruction of the family and society, the male protagonist. He had to numb himself with alcohol until he died. In the film, when Rui, the former Miss World, appeared on the stage, it was a gorgeous song and dance. She was holding a candle, her skirt was flying, her gestures were as light as butterflies, her eyes were as bright as moonlight, and she was dazzling. The scenery and costumes with strong ethnic customs, as well as the presentation of 360-degree panoramic camera positions of traditional Indian songs and dances, rendered a brilliantly lit opening so heartwarming. Devdas, played by Shajak Ruhan, also set a sentimental tone for the whole film because of his abundant emotion and exquisite acting skills, together with the wholehearted love and skillful dancing of prostitute Chang Drumsi such a song and dance movie.
More than 90% of the films in Indian films are musicals, and the domestic sales rate is quite high. Why are Indians so obsessed with the musicals in films? Because it just embodies the most distinctive national spirit of India.
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Dance in India is often closely associated with emotional expression, religious worship and the externalization of desire. Due to the fact that the entire South Asian subcontinent is divided into many and few in the history of India, and the Indian mainland has been constantly invaded by foreigners, the diversity and religion in Indian culture have been formed. Dance, natural humor, and the characteristics of laziness and ease. These are reflected in the film, especially the most direct and concise way of using dance to express the meaning, or joy, or sadness, or depression, or high, so whether it is in the necessity of the narrative or outside the narrative , Indian films can still add large sections of songs and dances to implement national entertainment. For example, in "Caravan", the convoy is walking along the way, and the people in the film use the open space to dance at any time and anywhere, the atmosphere is warm and moving, and the heroine Lida, who was originally a quiet and delicate rich woman, was caught in the theater. In desperation, he sang and danced happily with everyone. At this point in the film, we no longer ask how a girl who can't sing and dance can become good at singing and dancing in Indian films. Indian films never explain, because what they pursue is joy. Also in "Ashoka", Princess Kawaki goes to find Ashoka, who goes by the alias of Pafeng. There is no redundant plot structure in the film, only the songs and dances of the outsiders and Kawaki's songs and dances meet and collide with each other, plus they are full of meanings Sexual pictures to express the princess's sadness and sadness in the process of looking for Ashoka, which brought tears to my eyes.
Again, Indian dance is very closely related to religion. Lord Shiva, one of the three major gods of Hinduism, is considered to be the founder of dance, so a famous image of Shiva is the image of a dancer, who is also known as "Dancing Lord Shiva". India is a big religious country, almost everyone believes in religion, especially Hinduism. Therefore, people first used dance to worship gods in religious sacrifices, and later in secular life, they often used dance to express their love for life and admiration for gods, and extended to movies, they also used dance to express their love for life. manner. Most of the dances in Indian song and dance films are a combination of classical and modern. On the one hand, Indians absorb modern dance techniques and further integrate them into films; on the other hand, Indians continue to enrich, develop and spread their classical dances in films. , so to this day, although classical Indian dances, such as "Brahmin dance", are complicated because they are associated with sacrifices, each movement and every statue has its cultural and religious meaning, but classical dance is in India is still very prosperous. The famous writer Bing Xin made a painting after watching the classical dance of the Indian Kazuma sisters. The dancers are graceful and lifelike, which can be said to be a beautiful thing in the exchange of dance between China and India.
In addition, India's great classical art aesthetics "Dance Theory" provides a theoretical basis for the birth and development of Indian dance. Of course, "Dance Theory" is not all about dance, but a comprehensive art, including dance, art, painting, sculpture, modeling, etc. Its most important points are "flavor" and "emotion". Generally speaking, there are eight flavors: erotic, violent, heroic, disgusting, funny, compassionate, terrifying, and bizarre. Dance happens to be in the movie, taking on the burden of expressing eroticism. Looking back at the history of Indian films, due to the strict restrictions of the censorship system, Indian films are very strictly regulated on pornography, so most Indian films are quite "clean". But lust is also one of the eight flavors. At the same time, Vishnu, one of the three major gods in Hinduism, also has an incarnation that is a symbol of lust. In addition, Hindus also worship Shiva's Linga, believing that sex and lust are given by gods. So in other arts in India, like carving, it's perfectly normal to express lust. But in the movie, Indians are extremely clever in choosing to use dance to express their erotic feelings that they can’t express in the movie: the ambiguous and detached autumn waves, the language that is about to be spoken, the looming limbs, the contact that seems to welcome and refuse, and the like Mass singing and dancing at parties and ceremonies, all of which are very unique and subtly express the Indian expectations of eroticism in the film. For example, in "Ashoka", Ashoka dances with the princess in his imagination. The exquisite editing is accompanied by smoke, flames and water curtains, creating a erotic world with great visual impact, but it is pure and beautiful.
Today, Indian musicals still occupy a large share of the world's minds with its unique charm. Arabs, Africans and Southeast Asians, or from the Rajasthan countryside, to Melbourne, Seattle, to the websites of Chinese moviegoers, the music and dance of Indian films flowed everywhere. We love their ever-changing sign language, their big, bright eyes, their galloping foot skills, and their soft and amorous body shape, and love life even more because of their pure joy.
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