Quizzically Yours

X : " Catherine Martin (X's wife) and I went to India to work on ________________. We went out one night and there was a big poster up for a Bollywood movie. I said, "Let's go see that." We did - 2,000 audience members, high comedy, high tragedy, brother kills brother, [they] break out in some musical numbers, all jumbled up together in 4 hours of Hindi. We thought that was amazing. So our question was, 'Could we create a cinematic form like that? Could a musical work?' A musical must be able to work in western culture again, and could it be comic-tragic? So then began this commitment of moving toward 'Y' . I decided I'd do Romeo + Juliet and then a musical film."


Tell me Y.
If you are Googleing/you know it, you can as well tell X.

Comfortably Dumb gets it right.
Its Baz Luhrmann on Moulin Rouge.