Music

Short dance clip on feel good song -- Chale Jaise Hawein

Date: Oct 16, 2024

The previous video quality kept on bothering me. So here's eventually reshoot of the same!

Dance on Le Gayi Le Gayi song from Dil To Pagal Hai

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Date: Apr 10, 2021

Dancing -- My happy place among the chaotic messy outside world we are living in!

Dance on Le Gayi Le Gayi song from Dil To Pagal Hai

Not sure why the video is a little blurred. I was tired to reshoot, this song does require decent amount of stamina!

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Date: Apr 9, 2021

Dance on the Jawani Song/ Gili Gili Akka Song from "Student of The Year 2" movie

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Date: Mar 23, 2021

Back to 90's. Dance on "Premika Ne Pyar Se" Song 

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Date: Mar 11, 2021

Dance on Ghungroo song..

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Just some thoughts about evolution of dance in Bollywood --

In today's era dance steps change with almost every word of the song. So even if the length of the song is shorter dancing efforts are still large.

In 80-90s era dance steps usually used to change with a line or many lines of the song. But since songs were longer, similar dancing efforts I guess as above (Of course assuming one take for whole song)

In the era before that you would have been just fine even if you hold a branch of a tree for the whole song ;) Length of the song is irrelevant :)

Date: Feb 27, 2021

Another dance video on Breathless song by Shankar Mahadevan. Still no practice and more importantly no stamina (to perform steps with full energy) But at least some pre-thought definite steps and not on-the-spot choreographic thinking ;) But I guess on the spot is more more fun although it has some weird pauses, late/bad/repeated steps and very imperfect outcomes etc. With pre-thought you have to remember the thought out steps which can take similar pauses :) Best part about impromptu choreography is that it generates a different version of dance every time and you yourself can't possibly recreate exactly same previous version even if you want to ;)

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Date: Feb 17, 2021

Fun impromptu dance after a long time! 

7 min song seems like a long song especially when you are nearing 40! (and also are past anemic) But reminded me of so much of childhood when I used to dance on some typical Bollywood hits in society programs in Ganapati.. Some that I remember are on songs -- Mere haton mein, Chane ke khet mein, Hoton pe aisi baat, Saat samundar paar mein tere.. This last one was hit in society as I was being told. I used to like Divya Bharti because of this :) I remember the pink dress made at home with frills for this and also many steps :) At that time we didn't even have tape recorder to practice, we just knew some hook steps of some songs and everything else was impromptu :) Fun times.. Not to forget primary school gatherings were the real start of all this :) 

All I can say is Dancing is fun, it just bothers me that our stamina reduces as we age and so many mid-years having lost touch/practice... (And now all we can do is impromptu stuff. Practice takes just too much efforts and stamina, so that's out of question :))

Date: Feb 7, 2021

I tried to learn ballroom dancing at some point -  Involved some very basic routines of Foxtrot, Salsa, Quickstep, Rumba, Bolero , Viennese Waltz, Argentine Tango,  Bachata, Hustle.

I don't have many recordings of myself (now I don't even remember all those as well), but this is one of them of Bachata Routine!