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Baz Luhrmann has said he flew to Mumbai specifically to experience Bollywood from inside the audience, not to research, but to feel it. He sat in a packed cinema and watched Raj Kapoor's Shree 420 and understood immediately what a musical could be: communal, ecstatic, unapologetically emotional. Kapoor was called the Charlie Chaplin of India. Awara and Shree 420 are the two films that taught Luhrmann the register Moulin Rouge! needed.