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Why the hell are Indian movies always so damn long?

posted 7 years ago by generalnotsew6501
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I know other countries have long films from time to time. But Indian films are always long as hell. Only India can give you a 3 hour goofball comedy. Just curious as to why.

[–] adamc (124) 6 years ago

Just skip the dancing and singing parts.

[–] chilone (17262) 4 years ago

That's what I'd prefer. They seem to feel it's needed but it isn't.

[–] Strazdas (2328) 3 years ago

Its very cultural. Their "big" movies just has to have a dancing number. Its like back in the day our movies all had musical intermissions because "its just theater but different".

[–] chilone (17262) 3 years ago

I get it but I hate musical so there's that.

[–] Strazdas (2328) 3 years ago

Yes, i do not like the musical parts. There arew a few excpetions like REPO Genetic opera that i enjoyed, but usually i dont.

[–] chilone (17262) 3 years ago

Three Idiots (2009) was great but I'd like it better without the singing and dancing.

[–] Strazdas (2328) 3 years ago

When you are form a poor country people actually think as a bang for your buck in terms of movie lenght.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

And when you are in a country like the US the distributors put pressure on studios to keep movies under 2 hours simply because they wants to increase the number of times a movie can be shown per day regardless of whether the movie needs more time to tell the story or not. Remember those times when a movie seems like the rushed and ending or other part of a movie and then you find later when the director's cut is released that the longer version is a better movie in part because it has the whole story that the director wanted even if it is longer.