Dec 02, 2003 10:14 AM
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(Updated Dec 02, 2003 10:14 AM)
Great dancing is Gene Kelly in'Singing in the Rain', Fred Astaire in any movie of his, Dick Van Dyk* in'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'. Closer home Amitabh Bachan's'Khaike Paan Banaraswala' dance in don, Rishi Kapoors in'Hum Kisise Kum Nahin', Yahoo Shammi Kapoor in any movie, hell even white shoes Jeetu in'Caravan' and of course that memorable dance sequence between Karishma and Madhuri in'Dil To Paagal Hai'.
And what is bad dancing all about? Well innumerable Hindi movies, cant list em all. But here I am giving some worst choreography sequences found in Hindi movies. I am not mentioning a specific dance, just some categories which I cannot stand.
1) Dancers in the background: Love is a private affair, supposed to be between 2 persons, and if a person sings a song expressing his feelings, its supposed to be for himself right. Then why the hell, do we need so many morons in the background, gyrating along with the hero and heroine, to some idiotic steps and equally idiotic music. Would you love to romance with ur girl, if there were a dozen odd people in the back dancing with u?
2) Firangi Dancers in the Background: Whats worse than having 10 dancers in the background when you are romancing your girl or just singing? Having 10 firangi dancers in the background. Every since our guys have started shooting every 3rd Hindi movie in Europe, UK, Australia, NZ we have a dozen or odd firangi females popping out from nowhere, and dancing along. In some movies, the hero eve teases the heroine on the roads, and all the firangi females and males, join hands with him in doing so. Try doing that in Europe, US, UK, Australia or Singapore, and you would be spending ur time in the cooler.
3) The Shaadi/Karva Chauth/ Engagement/Family get together songs: Ever since 3 hour wedding videos became popular with HAHK and DDLJ, every movie now has a scene where there should be a shaadi/Karva Chauth/ Sagaai( take ur pick) song. So we have the spectacle of the entire family, with dad, mom, chacha, chachi, uncles, grand uncles and even the family pets dancing along with about 40 or so dancers in the background. Oh my God, please give me a break, from these wedding videos. Ah yes since this is Bharatiya Samskriti, all the guys would dress like princess, and all the gals in trendy lehangas and ghagra cholis.
4) The Taka Dhina Songs: Popularized by Jeetu in the 80's with the assembly line productions of K.Raghavendra Rao and Bappaya. Gyrating to idiotic music, along with inane lyrics( hard to believe that Indivar wrote such lyrics) with some equally rotten music by Bappi Lahiri( Oh Kishore Da why did you waste such first rate talent on such 3rd rate songs). Vulgar gestures and overweight buxom dancers in the background, doing even more vulgar gestures. Generally featuring Sridevi and Jayaprada. Though even Rajesh Khanna featured in quite a lot of these movies, he was not much of a dancer. And the worst thing is that these film makers were from my home state of Andhra Pradesh.
5) Govinda songs: Govinda is one of the best comedy actors. But as far as the songs and music of his movies are concerned, I am sorry its beyond the mark. A pretty good dancer, he has wasted his talent on some really bad choreography. First of all most of those dances are lessons on how to eve tease females in the most disgusting and vulgar way. And all of them have become monotonous vulgar pelvic thrusts. There are some exceptions though like'Akhiyon Se Goli Mare' and'Kisi Disco Mein Jaaye'.
6) The hero in a Disco song: This is supposed to show of the magnetic attractive power of our hero. So what does he do? Go to a disc, filled with scantily clad gyrating females, put on his two left shoes( er feet) and do some idiotic steps, more like gym exercises. And voila all the females are attracted to him( he is the Hero u see) and every one is pawing over him and kissing him. Gimme a break.
7) The Kamasutra Dance movements: Quite a recent trend I guess. U have the hero and heroine doing all sorts of Kamasutra poses, breathing heavily, and looking passionate. Only thing rather than making the audience feel passionate, it puts many to sleep.
