Awara: Something Different

This week we take a look at the Hindi film Awara. This movie being made out of the glamour’s of Hollywood gives this movie along with Indian movies and Bollywood movies present a different type of aesthetic feel. The evidence to support this is seeing how much of their own culture is presented throughout this film where as in Hollywood films they usually try to either Americanize them or just have the culture be relevant to the setting of the film. We see this especially within the dream sequence for Raj where it showcases an abundant amount of Hindi deities.

More evidence of this is shown in their cultural exhibits of song and dance which is not an uncommon thing within their culture. Another major difference between this film and a film produced by Hollywood is that all characters have very expressive emotions that are over the top on purpose rather then what would be in Hollywood which is either overacting or just plain bad acting. The last difference I can recognize is with how many actual normal people there are within the city where a movie or a TV show produced by Hollywood would have every character be extremely gorgeous which is counteractive with the immersion of the audience to the movie.