Awara: A Muscial

After watching the film Awara I would definitely consider this film a musical. Although in some respects it is not a traditional musical. A traditional musical to me is where the main characters use singing for the main form of dialogue, and there is more singing then regular dialogue. Some examples of this in modern film are The Sound of Music or Les Miserables, where in almost every scene there is singing and dancing. In the film Awara the singing and regular dialogue is about the same and some of the singing rather than being sung by the main characters is transitional singing explaining what is taking place at that moment in the film. This to me is what makes it a non-traditional musical. This singing by outside characters explaining or in certain cases reexplaining what is taking place makes this a unique style of a musical. An example in the film of this is when Leela is told to get out of the house by her husband and as she is walking door to door the song being sung by outside characters is saying exactly what she is doing. I was interested to see after watching the film what genre film experts categorized this film as and if they agreed that it would be considered a musical. The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) and Rotten Tomatoes both categorized Awara in three genres drama, musical, and romance. This only confirmed my existing notion that the film Awara is a musical.