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The film's style extended to the music and its picturisation in the movie.

One song sequence recapitulates, and to some extent, parodies Bollywood song-and-dance history.

Other songs drop the usual dance accompaniment — one song depicts an argument between two protagonists through the song's lyrics, another establishes the character's state of mind through a moody photo collage, while yet another imagines the beautiful and idealised world of an artist in love through a song inside a painting.

There is also an extended opera sequence at the Sydney Opera House, which was exclusively commissioned for the film.