ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on film songs to be profoundly integrated with Hindi films on many levels. Although the book focuses on the songs, its findings are also relevant to the study of the overall Hindi film. Firstly, the view presented by Prasad of the Hindi film as assembled from separately produced components needs to be qualified. Secondly, the related view of Hindi film songs as 'more-or-less gratuitous insertions into the plot, to be enjoyed for their own sake' also requires qualification. There are ways in which the songs appear to be 'items', such as the extra-narrative locations, the lavish costumes, the higher degree of eroticism, and the use of choreographed movement, of poetry rather than prose, of song rather than speech, and of a voice other than the character's own.
