"The ingredients of the average Hindi film are well known; colour (Eastman preferred); songs (six or seven?) in voices one knows and trusts; dance-solo and ensemble-the more frenzied the better; bad girl, good girl, bad guy, good guy, romance (but no kisses); tears, guffaws, fights, chases, melodrama; characters who exist in a social vacuum; dwellings which do not exist outside the studio floor; locations in Kulu, Manali Ooty, Kashmir, London, Paris, Hong-Kong, Tokyo...."
S. Ray, Our Films, Their Films, p.90-91, Orient Longman Limited, 1976; 3ed, 1993.