Masala (film genre) ||This article needs additional citations
for verification. (April 2013)| Masala films of Indian cinema
are those that mix genres in one work. Typically these films
freely mix action, comedy, romance, and drama or melodrama. They
tend to be musicals that include songs filmed in picturesque
locations. The genre is named after the masala, a mixture of
spices in Indian cuisine. The Hindu called masala the only genre
of Indian film.  The origin of this genre is generally credited
to Manmohan Desai, a director who very successfully exploited
the genre in the 1970s and 1980s. It helped establish many
leading actors as superstars such as Dharmendra, Amitabh
Bachchan, Rajnikanth, Chiranjeevi, Mithun Chakrabarty, actress
Sridevi received stardom in her early Bollywood career with
Masala movies and more recently, Salman Khan, Akshay Kumar and
Joseph Vijay. This style is used very often in Hindi and South
Indian films as it helps make them appeal to a broad variety of
viewers. Famous masala filmmaker