Random Ramblers Timbuktoo#69!!!! - Page 118

LOL X-factor India...yeah ummm i have no interest in that.

@The voice-- nope. i don't watch much reality shows except for a bit of AI and SYTYCD.
some of the acts on SYTYCD are really nice.
Lol and now they also have atleast one bollywood dance style in season. 😆 I liked their group performance on "jhoom barabar jhoom" in i don't know what season.
the duo performance by two guys on "Bombay dreams" theme last season was quite good as well.

The bollywood dance styles in these American shows look like emotionless acrobatics to me...they just don't get the EMOTION of it right...and Bollywood style is high on emotions and expressions...not "technique"...I find all these ppl laughable with their bolly aerobics and whatnot...especially those ABCD types who've opened their "bollywood dancing" schools in the big cities...LOL...lameness.

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yeah that is true it is highly acrobatic.😆

Also, ummm bollywood now has stooped to a whole different level. The whole grace is gone in the songs they show in the movies now. Even those bollywood actors/actresses don't seem to display the "emotions" in the songs these days.

@Bollywood dance academies in US--- 😆 dunno about that but it does sound lame.

Most Universities here have Indian student associations and they do traditional dances like Raas and Bhangra. they do it on the original songs and music. My brother's college has it too. but those performances are actually fun to watch because it is mostly US-born kids like me who learn those cultural dances...in a way keeps us connected with the culture. We have multicultural event at my school each year too and we do indian dance, and other cultures too. it's fun!

LOL Amy, I don't think you're going to get my point on the bollywood dancing thing...the whole essence is centered around ENJOYING the dance, not giving vapid smiles and prancing around like monkeys...maybe that's what ppl abroad want to THINK is bollywood dancing but it's not one-dimensional like it's shown in these dance shows usually.

Yes there is a lot of dumb choreography in bolly movies these days but I still find these lame wannabe copying attempts to do bollywood dancing on these American dance shows quite laughable...they are nothing like bollywood and all the judges go gaga over it like it's the greatest thing ever...LOL...wearing Indian clothes won't make your dancing Indian either.

In India, we have to deal with wannabes aping Western culture and in the West, we are faced with ppl all misguidedly finding their own odd interpretations of "bollywood" LOL

The raas/garba/bhangra teams are different...I'm talking of ppl doing BOLLYWOOD stuff on these dance shows...

Originally posted by: Ramy25

. but those performances are actually fun to watch because it is mostly US-born kids like me who learn those cultural dances...in a way keeps us connected with the culture.

Interesting...so these performances are only fun to watch cuz American born desis are dancing in them???😆...It's good that you ppl try to stay connected to your culture but I do think you ppl should try to get more INTO the dance and the culture of it than just doing it for the sake of it to show that you are trying to stay connected to your culture...

All these endless cultural shows that keep happening in the desi communities out here are usually boring to me cuz it's just like they pick the same 10-20 kids to go stand on stage and go through a standard routine with the same few songs playing every time...the kids themselves don't really seem to be connecting to the culture/music on an ACTUAL level...it's just like any random dance act to them that they look they are just getting through...I find the depth lacking...It is very hard I think out here for kids born here to ACTUALLY connect to what their real culture is...that feeling can only come from within...I don't know how much dancing to those songs can bring that out.

Originally posted by: nureat01

The bollywood dance styles in these American shows look like emotionless acrobatics to me...they just don't get the EMOTION of it right...and Bollywood style is high on emotions and expressions...not "technique"...I find all these ppl laughable with their bolly aerobics and whatnot...especially those ABCD types who've opened their "bollywood dancing" schools in the big cities...LOL...lameness.

Anu - I agree 100%. I've seen the ABCD kids dancing in every dance festival here, while their parents go ga-ga about how so and so dance class teaches Bollywood style dancing. Honestly it looks fake to me. It lacks soul, expression and more so emotion. Nothing against these enthusiastic kids yaar, but I'm definitely upset at the parents for not teaching them the prose and poetry behind it. Music alone is not sufficient to get the thumkas right. One needs to understand the depth, tone and mood of the poetry associated with it. Only then can one deliver the right performance. Otherwise, like you said - it looks like acrobats.

I know that my own kid is going to be called an ABCD. But at least I'll make sure that I am not pushing him into something without his understand the meaning of it.

Edit: Finally we are at the last page of 69 ... Shreya rejoice ... thanks for putting the keeda in everyone's mind... some of us were errrmmming, some of us were clueless, while yet others were curious enough to research it, only to errrm later on 😆

dunno about that anu, but in my school, it's us kids who step forward, choreograph the routines and perform. and you know what, i went to india 3 years ago for wedding and ummm everyone there couldn't even do a single step of our raas (i'm gujju...lol hence the raas aka stick dance ..lol i love it. it's so much fun! We sweat it out during navratri😆 and then the next day at school we're all so sore walking from one class to another🤣).
anyhow, my point is that it all depends on your parents and family and how much they instill the cultural values in you. I know gujarati (only talking wise...i can't read or write) because my grandparents and my parents talk to me in it. I know hindi from movies and such.
Cultural shows are quite boring i agree. I'm not talking about those...because i don't perform in those. I don't even like to go to those now.
Besides, I didn't say that dancing to those songs is the only way "we" connect to the culture. Obviously not!
You see it's like keeping a balance between the two types of cultures. I think my grandparents have had a big role in instilling "indian culture" in my brother and I and My parents have had a bigger role in showing us how to balance the ethnic culture and the culture of the country we're born in.

LOL hey LadyM...yeah finally we're done! I'll reply to your post in the next CC then.

Originally posted by: nureat01

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