Are Bollywood movies all that weird?

As part of my 25 before 25 list of things I want to accomplish before my quarter-century, I put down that I wanted to watch a movie out of India called 3 idiots. And so I did. And I will try and correct one stereotype that Bollywood movies are weird because of the sudden breaks into song and dance numbers.

It makes about as much sense as that scene in Scarface with the montage set to "push it to the limit." It's a song that expresses the mood of what's going on. And in a way it makes even MORE sense than the Scarface scene because Paul Engemann, the singer of that 80s-licious song, wasn't even a character in that movie. And if you can accept a total stranger singing in a way that sets the mood, you really should be able to accept any song and dance number in a bollywood movie.