As a kid I always aspired to dance.
But my dream of learning the art could never come true; studies stopped me from
that indulgence. However I was always involved in many dance programs and that
really excited me. But it has been really many years since I took the stage to
shake a leg, infact I thought I have lost the zest and courage to move in front
of an audience. The last time I danced in a function was in my engineering
college, later I acted in plays, did compeering and many other activities, but
dancing never! Besides never in my life did I dance to Bollywood numbers, all
my dancing was Rabindranitya, contemporary etc.
A few days back, in our Powai based
bong association we celebrated, “Bengali New Year” and we kept a theme
of Bongs in Bollywood. Can you believe it that I danced and that too to
a bollywood number? Remember Bipasha Basu and Akshay Kumar in “Main sirf tera
mehboob, tu meri mehbooba!”? And those strange, raunchy moves! I and my
husband Avishek were to portray that booty shake on stage. Initially a bit
taken aback by the idea, later we took it as challenging and fun. Finally the
end product was presentable, if not great and Spandanites were gracious enough
to encourage. A few of those captures I wanted to share in my blogging space. Afterall
my blog is my journey and all memorable moments are eligible to find space. Avishek
did well and as per me, I was kind of OK. It is worth mentioning, that the choreography
too was largely his. But truly memorable was the experience for reasons more than
one, I first time danced to a Hindi dance number and also it was our first leg
shake together, and this made it special. I thank Spandan for the opportunity :-)
A few captures for you!
Avishek
Me
Dance Dance
Dance Dance
Romance is in the air
Picture courtesy Mainak Chatterjee.
Aritra
Chakrabarty Sengupta
Good show.
ReplyDeleteThank u :-)
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