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| How animated features and musicals films are faring |
| Written by staff | |
| Monday, 28 July 2008 | |
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A decade after their revival, how have these two formats’ comeback gambits held up? The good news is that the animated feature has remained popular, with many full-length movies in distribution and production. Less upbeat is the observation that musical films are being produced only occasionally, despite the success of movies like “Chicago” and the current “Mamma Mia.” Similarly, on the local film scene, a feature-length animation film, “Urduja,” was recently produced, but no musical is in sight. We urge our producers to come up with new musical films, because they can be hugely entertaining, and expand the true range and depth of filmmaking. In connection with these observations, we note that, even in India’s Bollywood, where musicals are par for the course, some industry people are worried that the regulation musical component in Indian movies has run its course. They attribute this decline to Indian producers’ efforts to make their movies appealing to the international film market, which generally frowns on musical numbers “interrupting” movies’ dramatic development. In the past, many musical numbers would be inserted into all sorts of film types, but even Indian viewers, especially the young, are expressing a preference for state-of-the-art filmmaking technology over traditional musical “interludes.”
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