I bought a film DVD from a local shop (pirated, of course) and 2 songs and a few minutes before the interval didn’t play properly, probably due to the disc being scratched or something.

If you’re wondering, “songs?”… It was a Bollywood film. We had a lot of songs in films. Now a days, there’s like 3 or 4 songs, ~3 minutes each. Up to around 2010, especially in the 80s and 90s films used to have 8-10 songs, some even 5-6 minutes long.

I remember the first Bollywood movie I watched, back in the 80s. I was home from a late shift, and it was on TV. I started watching and was still watching like three hours later. Loads of singing and dancing, also an intricate plot that switched from thriller to family drama to romance to murder mystery to political intrigue and back to romance. With fireworks instead of kissing. It was fantastic.