Mani Ratnam has said in an interview that his 1998 Hindi film Dil Se(From the heart) failed at the box office because the song and dance sequences obstructed the pace of the narrative. Indeed, except for the "Ay ajnabi tu bhi kahin" ("Oh stranger, you too from somewhere") number, which keeps floating into the diegesis as a longing message on All India Radio sent out by the hero to his mysterious and evanescent ladylove, all the other musical segments in the film take place in virtual registers of time and space beyond the direct control of a realist narrational...

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