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Monday, January 5, 2009

Madhuri Dixit India needs you

Today NBC started a new show "Superstars of Dance", this competition represents performers from 8 countries around the world and luckily or shall I say unluckily India is a part of these 8 countries. The major difference between Indian performers and other country performers is that Indian performers are born in US of A (ABCD: American Born Confused Desis kids) mostly 2nd generation desis out here, unlike the other country dancers.

Not that I have any thing against these guys, but they suck big time. I know I shouldn't be blaming them they perform what they are taught by the choreographer (Nakul: self proclaimed Bollywood diva), his dancing choreography sticks. What I don't understand is some one who gave us hits during the show "So you can dance" last year can choreograph something that pathetic. We need looks of Saroj Khan or Farah Khan to choreograph something memorable.

Moreover this program is been judged by judges representing 8 countries on point basis, one is not suppose to judge when his country performs which means if Indian dancers are performing the Indian judge is not supposed to judge them hence no points from the Indian judge too bad.

We all know that Indian culture goes all the way back to 5000 years, the only culture that comes close to India is Chinese. Now such traditional dances are judged by countries like USA, Ireland, Australia, Russia, South Africa, Argentina and China. The dance these countries are familiar with is either an acrobatic display or romantic love stories with cool moves without expression. Indian dances show expressions something these judges are not familiar with hence we lack numbers.

On the whole if India has to win this competition we would need Farah Khan or Shiamak Davar and the great old Madhuri Dixit..


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