I hadn't heard of quick step and it sounded scary - Gaurav Chopraa

Gaurav Chopraa, who has already showcased his dancing prowess on Indian dance reality shows like Nach Baliye 2 and Zara Nachke Dikha has been wowing the judges and his fans by hitting all the right steps clubbed with the perfect concept over the past two weeks. He is one of the most sought after television actors in our country, who is now successfully making a mark with his effective performances week after week on an international stage through a global platform.

Gaurav, who is familiar with various Indian and International dance forms like Foxtrot, Waltz, Salsa amongst others, seems to be challenging his own limits by trying some really unique international formats.

He has been receiving top scores and is ranking second on the score chart. When asked how he feels about the way the judges and his fans are embracing him in DWTS and how is he coping up with the challenges and expectations, he said - The surprise in the first performance was that they really liked everything and they gave me top scores. The second week was a big challenge. There was a theme called quick step and I am not really a dancer per say. So, while I am quite familiar about some of the dance forms that are popular in India, I hadn't heard of quick step and it sounded scary. It sounded to be many many fast steps and it turned out to be exactly that. It was a challenge to get them to say yes to an Indian song for quick step. It took me about two to three days to convince them. We went through many songs and then we found one, and they were absolutely astonished to find that there is an Indian song that has a quick step beat. We found a song called Calcutta kiss from Detective Byomkesh Bakshi. We started to rehearse and to my horror, I realised that this was extremely difficult and almost impossible to learn so quickly. Also, no one can understand the Indian songs that I suggest, so I thought of a story which was narrated through my performance. And like everything else, I designed my own costume and I learnt as much as I could. And well, by the grace of God it went really well.

When asked about what did he have in mind when he went there. Any winning strategy? This is what he had to say - When I came to Georgia, my basic point was that they are not aware of what's happening in films in India. And so I wanted to be the source of that every week. I do want to underline that I am not here for competition per say. I want to learn a bit from them and teach a lot about us. I was successfully able to do that in the last week by performing on an Indian song on an international dance theme. I have been putting in ingredients from our side our aesthetics in my performances so far and everyone seemed to have liked it. I need everyone's blessings from India and I need everyone's wishes. I am a bit of a cultural ambassador here and I will make sure the exposure to India and the Indianness reflects in each of my performances weeks on week.