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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
@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
@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.
@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
@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.