Desi Galaxy

Karan Johar says that he makes movies for Indians everywhere. His previous movies were a blast at the box offices in major U.S. cities and in the UK. Karan is continously in touch with studios in Hollywood but he wants to take an Indian movie to the Hollywood rather than taken over by Hollywood. When asked how you would take a movie with songs popping out of nowhere to the western audience, would they get it? What Karan replied to this question is the most perfect explaination of songs in Indian movies. Indians should feel proud of Karan that finally he has provided us an answer to such an old question.

Bollywood films are films with songs, not musicals in the old Hollywood tradition when, say, a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers song was a device to take the story forward.

“In our films we stop a situation and celebrate with a song. We celebrate sorrow, joy, anything with songs. It is perfectly normal. But the song does not move the narrative. The west just does not get it when a song can simply be sung out of nowhere. Nobody in a reality setting [in the west] would do this. But we do.”

At the end of a song, actors perform the next scene, which has not moved ahead in any obvious way despite the interruption of a fantastically choreographed song involving dozens of performers and possibly also the battlefield of the India-Pakistan border, the Swiss Alps, Fifth Avenue or Buckingham Palace as a backdrop. “The west may see this as kitsch, or surreal. But for us it is normal.

Is this guy genius or what? I am dying to watch Kabhi Alvida na Kehna and his interviews are making me more and more excited about his next movie. I understand and I do not expect Karan to make another Mughl-e-Azam, but I do expect another fun filled movie with eye-candy costumes, elegant set designs, beautiful choregraphy and my darling Shahrukh.

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