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The Real Reason Bollywood Movies Have Songs
Arts and life reporter Aparita Bhandari joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning Bollywood questions. Who is the Brad Pitt of Bollywood? Why is CGI so bad in Indian movies? What are the must watch Bollywood movies? Answers to these questions and many more await on Bollywood Support. #Bollywood #India #IndianCinema Still haven’t subscribed to…
@shauryashrivastava8965
October 14, 2026 at 11:44 am
Why are Bollywood movies anyways?
@danceswithdirt7197
October 14, 2026 at 2:14 pm
Why not?
@bleh987
October 14, 2026 at 2:21 pm
Because people like them. Why are you anyway?
@LilaMidnight-b2q
October 14, 2026 at 11:47 am
I liked this, it’s really engaging
@Saanzarkhan
October 14, 2026 at 11:51 am
Copied Songs !!
Copied Movies !!
@pookyYZ
October 14, 2026 at 12:17 pm
Are you Indian?
@VBansal-rp8zi
October 14, 2026 at 3:24 pm
Poopistani spotted
@amayap-n9y
October 15, 2026 at 7:33 am
Why do you watch then mr pakistani? 😂
@pisey.
October 14, 2026 at 12:36 pm
So are most Bollywood movies considered musicals then? 🧐
@kanakasathasivan1158
October 14, 2026 at 1:27 pm
I personally don’t consider them musicals (after studying western and Indian theater arts). The music is generally external to the plot and fantastic (as she says it’s broken out). Most western musicals have songs that move the plot, explain characters personalities, motivations, etc. and are understood to have actually happened in the movie (like the character starts in one location and ends in another or reveals something important in the song to another character).
@ShatteredObjects
October 14, 2026 at 4:36 pm
@kanakasathasivan1158 So you’re saying Joker 2 is a Bollywood film?
@manager-nim2623
October 14, 2026 at 7:28 pm
They don’t break into musical numbers during a dialogue, it’s more like how movies have tracks playing except in Bollywood they play out these tracks
@wander_ingsheep
October 19, 2026 at 4:49 am
@kanakasathasivan1158also the actors are only acting the singing.
@zoutheminecraft
October 14, 2026 at 1:29 pm
Why is it called Bollywood? Sorry if this is a stupid question but I genuinely have no idea
@ke1shi
October 14, 2026 at 1:40 pm
Bombay + Hollywood
@ShatteredObjects
October 14, 2026 at 4:38 pm
@ke1shi Since it’s Mumbai now, they should call it Mollywood. Though that sounds like a place in Florida
@razakhan23465
October 14, 2026 at 2:14 pm
2000s too. Any genre would have characters break into song and dance
@mkayyyhubb
October 14, 2026 at 3:24 pm
She is so beautiful
@MURD3RWAVE
October 14, 2026 at 3:26 pm
I’ve heard so many Indian talk about their culture. Still waiting on the red dot meaning.
@casspeter6013
October 14, 2026 at 6:27 pm
It’s marking her status as a married person.
@blattertanz
October 14, 2026 at 8:07 pm
Google is free 🙂
@nidhi2693
October 14, 2026 at 9:01 pm
It’s to honor the mind and consciousness. It has nothing to do with married status. Any one of any gender can adorn one but unfortunately women in most cultures preserve the clothes and ornaments more than men do.
@MURD3RWAVE
October 14, 2026 at 9:58 pm
@blattertanzobviously. Never heard it discussed. That’s the point. I know about Bollywood movies and music. They never talk about it.
@firebright24
October 14, 2026 at 4:52 pm
Where is the Expert?
@ordisyggdrasils9655
October 14, 2026 at 4:55 pm
I like when movies know they are for entertaintment in some ways, wether its to make you think in new ways and/or look at pretty art. Newer movies often miss that part
@RandalReid
October 14, 2026 at 8:20 pm
I think people subconsciously at some level recognize movies made sloppily or designed by a committee, devoid of any artistic merit or intent. Movies that are self-aware of what they are and lean into it, even if they aren’t perfect, will always have some entertaining value.
@AvaMulberry
October 14, 2026 at 5:03 pm
Her outfit is stunning omh
@AvaMulberry
October 14, 2026 at 5:03 pm
*omg
@bhaskarchatterjee03
October 14, 2026 at 5:24 pm
bengali diva spotted
@rishmastering
October 17, 2026 at 10:57 am
who bengali? this presenter isn’t…. if that is what you were indicating.
@ProffesionalPFPstealer
October 14, 2026 at 6:46 pm
So it’s like a musical kid culture sort of?
@hayliecassidy711
October 14, 2026 at 7:58 pm
Cuz its fun
@buttahp
October 14, 2026 at 8:15 pm
Her hair is so pretty.
@tbscotty813
October 14, 2026 at 10:14 pm
I’m a middle-class, white American man, and there’s nothing in life that I love more than the big number where the dude and 50 of his best friends are having a dance battle against the chick and 50 of her best friends! EPIC!
@laaliyahdixon4883
October 14, 2026 at 10:55 pm
I love Bollywood my algorithm is blessed!!
@noraa3428
October 15, 2026 at 3:36 am
Parsi is an Iranian group of ppl political group moved to India to be a minority as they are colonialist with long term agendas??!
@gustave-t8m
October 15, 2026 at 6:21 am
She’s giving American woman discovered her third cousin’s dog-sitter’s great uncle lived in India for a week and now she’s decided it’s her culture.
@johnlucas6683
October 15, 2026 at 10:17 am
80s movies in my country, even some 90s, had those song and dance numbers as well.
@michaelperrone3663
October 16, 2026 at 8:58 am
You didn’t answer the question, or are you just saying they do it because they do it?
@deepakpant3280
October 16, 2026 at 1:50 pm
Honestly, Shweta, you are speaking so beautifully! ❤️ You look absolutely gorgeous, so sweet, and incredibly graceful. The saree looks stunning on you, and the colour suits you perfectly!
Very good, very nice, Shweta! 🌸 So proud of you! You have presented yourself so beautifully and gracefully. Keep shining! ❤️👏
Saloni Pant Khulbe
❤❤❤❤❤
@emme4124
October 16, 2026 at 3:14 pm
I thought she simply added more details to the asked question rather than actually answer it 🤷🏽♂️..
@WasabiTurtle
October 16, 2026 at 4:49 pm
The question was why…
@pushisarkar3344
October 18, 2026 at 1:43 pm
The breaking out into songs IS SO FUN and i totally miss it. internationally ppl hate it , white people like ot make fun of us and with rise of internet and more western mocking now movies are just skipping it. i am so bummed about it.
@wander_ingsheep
October 19, 2026 at 4:53 am
Isn’t the real answer to keep the audience engaged for hour & half, because a movie that is dialogue heavy would bore Indian Audience.
Also songs are major promotional material for the majority of bollywood movies now and can’t be taken out of it now.