No one makes musicals in Hollywood. It is a story of bygone era. But an exception to the decline of the musical film is Indian cinema, especially the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai(formerly Bombay), where the majority of films have been and still are musicals. The majority of films produced in the Tamil industry based in Chennai (formerly Madras), Telugu industry based in Hyderabad, and Malayalam industry are also musicals.
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Influence on Western films
In the 2000s, Bollywood musicals played an instrumental role in the revival of the musical film genre in the Western world. Baz Luhrmannstated that his successful musical film Moulin Rouge!(2001) was directly inspired by Bollywood musicals. The film thus pays homage to India, incorporating an Indian-themed play based on the ancient Sanskrit drama The Little Clay Cart and a Bollywood-style dance sequence with a song from the film China Gate. The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences; the Bollywood musical Lagaan(2001) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; two other Bollywood films Devdas (2002) and Rang De Basanti (2006) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film; and Danny Boyle's Academy Awardwinning Slumdog Millionaire (2008) also features a Bollywood-style song-and-dance number during the film's end credits.
Acknowledgement:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_film
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