Why bollywood films always full of singing and dancing ?

I think if you search Wikipedia the answers are there. For sure, it's nothing new - as a child (I'm 50 now) I remember the old Granada in Clapham having Indian Musicals - they weren't called Bollywood then, and only Indian people went to see them. The Indian history of cinematography is fascinating, doncha think? Like the history of India herself - can't get enough of the place (or the people.) I imagine the Bolly influence came from WW2, when Brit and American troops introduced the idea of Hollywood musicals. Prior to this, a lot of Hindi movies were pure slush romanticism. Bollywood without the songs. My dream is to go to India and go singing and dancing down the road with a sari on. Plus visit the temples, of course.

I think that's a tradition and culture of India. We know .. for a long time, Movie from India always have dance and song. that's for Identical of that Movie

in hollywood movies songs are not there mostly but in bollywood there are many dances which relax the audience and make them fresh for the continuing movie. Songs and dancing provide more charms to the movie and have a great hand in its success too. Suppose a movie has many nice songs and it promotes the movie , people get used to it and sing it along evrywhere, this is also an add of the movie which forces one to go and watch the movie.

hmm bollywood films are always full of singing and dancing because it is a bollywood film hehe. I know a bad joke. Well i don't know the reason for it but as long as you are enjoying it do you need to bother about it. Well i love Hindi films with music only.

Firstly, not many may know that Hollywood movies of the 50's used to be musicals. I have seen several of them. At that time, I found them to be entertaining and also a bit annoying when they broke into song and dance. Hollywood has moved on from this formula. You still will see movies like Breakdance, Step up, etc. But they are few and far between, regardless of how amazing the dancing is. The major reason is that the Indian MUSIC industry is virtually non-existent as an independent entity compared to western counterparts where there are thousands of bands, genres of music ranging from songs-with-meaning/romantic songs to headbanging metal. The emotion is from love to anger/rage/rebellion. We are only in the love stage of indian songs. The others are still too much for people to accept. But it will come as love is not the only strong human emotion for someone to connect. Now, regd song-and-dance indian movies, if you take out the songs, the duration gets dropped to 1 less hr. The avg person is going to think they are getting a better deal listening to songs, rather than a movie with a riveting story but no songs. Also, drama is not understated/subtle but overstated/strong in indian movies. Hence all the dramatic shouting which a normal person would never do in real life. The only source of musical entertainment is through movies. It's a bundle deal. All or nothing. Musical should be a movie genre. Other genres are romance, thrillers, murder mysteries, sci-fi, war stories, etc etc. Music or song-dance routines can be acceptable in a musical (of course) or in romantic chick flicks. Of which, most indian movies are ring true - they are largely chick flicks and the men probably don't realize it. But bollywood movie choices, just like music choices, is limited into a generic format that the public has been conditioned to like. To deviate is to take a (monetary) risk. Even if the producer knows that introducing a song-dance in the middle of say a murder thriller is going to be silly at best, (s)he will still do it to appease the conditioned mindset of the avg viewer. Once the music industry can stand on its own, have at least 10 times more MAJOR artists that the number of movie actors, and have their own concerts as avenues for music, the formula will unfortunately never change. A truly successful formula is one that applies universally across countries, religions and cultures that one can embrace without asking a question like the above. Therefore, it is an inevitability. Have you ever seen a guitar or a drum being played for an indian song. Until recently where they have musical talent contests, this was unheard of. But the modern generation is bringing on change. And I say that change is good. Hurry up already :-) BERVICK COLACO