- Title
- Designing the Song and Dance Sequences: Exploring Bollywood’s Cinematic Creativity
- Creator
- Kishore, Vikrant; Kerrigan, Susan
- Relation
- Salaam Bollywood: Representations and Interpretations p. 112-136
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315625720
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Globally filmmaker’s are recognised as working in a highly collaborative medium that employs similar creative processes and key creative team members regardless of the country of origin. But in India, Bollywood cinematic processes are unique because they have developed their own key creative team member who focuses specifically on the integration of song and dance in a film’s narrative. Known in the west as a choreographer, in Bollywood they are given a more apt title of ‘dance director’, which describes the skills required to design song and dance sequences that contribute to the film’s narrative. The evolution of song and dance in Bollywood film narratives can be historically mapped back religion where Hindi God’s had their own dances. Cinema has allowed the Indian fascination with dance to continue and western dance styles have been exploited and integrated in Bollywood song and dance sequences. By presenting a brief overview of this historical and cultural context this research will examine how and why Bollywood film narratives have evolved with song and dance sequences, which will contextualise the commercial evolution of the ‘item number’ and the incorporation of a ‘signature’ dance move. With an acute focus on the evolution and role of the dance director the interviews with three current Bollywood film director’s Onir, Kunal Kohli and Tanuja Chandra and two highly successful dance-directors Rem D’Souza and Longinus Fernandes will reveal contemporary approaches used to produce song and dance sequences in Bollywood films. This research argues that item-numbers are critical to a film’s success because they act as promotional vehicles used to build a film’s audience prior to its cinematic release. The conclusion confirms that Bollywood filmmakers have a culturally unique approach to film production with Bollywood cinematic creativity found to be different to Hollywood.
- Subject
- Bollywood; film narratives; song; dance; film
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1463930
- Identifier
- uon:46872
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138649620
- Language
- eng
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