Edited sentence: Along with the music and dance of ancient India, the novels and books written by many authors were used for making the movies and sometimes, the entire story was adopted from the book alone and made into films.Examples of this influence include the techniques of a side story, back-story and story within a story.For example, the Hollywood musicals had as their plot the world of entertainment itself.However, they demonstrated how this creation intersected with people's day to day lives in complex and interesting ways.Indian filmmakers, while enhancing the elements of fantasy so pervasive in Indian popular films, used song and music as a natural mode of articulation in a given situation in their films.Indian popular films often have plots which branch off into sub-plots which were common in the early Tamil cinema.Tamil filmmakers deviated from Hollywood influences in many significant methods.The American film Industry, commonly known as Hollywood, where musicals were popular from the 1920s to the 1950s impacted the Indian Cinema to a great extent and formed the base for creation of motion pictures.The ancient Indian epics of Mahabharata and Ramayana which have exerted a profound influence on the thought and imagination of popular Indian cinema, particularly in its narratives.There is a strong Indian tradition of narrating mythology, history, fairy stories and so on through song and dance.Whereas Hollywood filmmakers strove to conceal the constructed nature of their work so that the realistic narrative was wholly dominant, Indian filmmakers made no attempt to conceal the fact that what was shown on the screen was a creation, an illusion, a fiction