Wednesday, August 20, 2008

So You Think You Can Dance: Bollywood

So You Think You Can Dance is an American dance reality competition from the creators of American Idol. You have the contestant competing against each other for the title of America's Favorite Dancer. The contestant are paired together. Each week a couple picks a different dance style, which rages from Salsa to the Cha Cha. In the current season they have introduced a new dance style called Bollywood (Yes that's right after our good old Hindi film industry). The couple Katee Shean and Joshua Allen actually picked this dance style (loved the way she said Bollywood when they picked the dance style). This was something they knew nothing about and in the rehearsal looked quite funny. But the end product was pretty damn good. Yeah! They did put some of their own style in the dance. They performed on Dhoom Tanna from Om Shanti Om and they did it even better than the Indian actors. See for yourself. They looked great and danced pretty well. Loved the way they did the namaste at the end of their performance.

But then at the end of the day it nice to see an Indian dance form (though not exactly a dance form) being recognized on international stage. And nice to see contestant other than our actors perform it.


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