Is Awara a Musical?

Being brought up on musicals like The King and I and Singing in the Rain it seems Awara carries on that tune as a musical. One of the main criteria, at least of mine, that a musical must have the flash mob mentality. What I mean by this is that there is a group of people singing without cause too. Also that it seems to have been setup or rehearsed which is easily shown with others randomly joining in without missing a beat. The very first song is a great example, this is when Judge Raghunath and his wife are out on the boat and what seems like everyone break out in song and dance. Though it is reminiscent of what we know Bollywood today to be, it presents a good example of my first criteria. In real life it is very doubtful that many people have just come to sing about the couple without everyone on board like in a flash mob. Also singing giving the audience foresight in to what the couple will go through means you kind of planned it out. This also leads into my second reason I consider Awara a musical is that the songs used in the film are part of the plot and moving the story line on. There are multiple scenes where this is shown throughout the movie that gives detail to the plot like in the same scene the song depicts that “your boat is headed into a storm”. Thus forecasting that the couple will run into trouble and ultimately justice Raghunath casting out his wife and son to live in the slums

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