Anything and everything that the population wants gets assimilated into Bollywood."īollywood dance features a lot of high–energy movement, which means it also torches calories and has been marketed as a workout. "India is a huge country with massive cultural diversity. " gets inspiration from all around the world," Ajanta Chakraborty, the founder ofīollywood Groove in Chicago, told me. (Check out this video from the past season of So You Think You Can Dance if you don't believe me.) Bollywood dance is a mash–up of classic Indian folk dances and modern day multicultural influences. It's the most fun, exuberant thing I've ever seen. If you don't get an immediate rush of endorphins while watching a Bollywood performance, you might be a zombie. The movie Slumdog Millionaire introduced the genre to mainstream America on a mass scale, and the dance competition show, So You Think You Can Dance (hosted by the stylish Cat Deeley), continues to do so. Her win, in addition to prompting some much-needed conversations about racism and xenophobia in our country, also had a more light-hearted effect: It introduced a whole new audience to the joys of a Bollywood performance.īollywood has slowly but surely been gaining popularity in the U.S. Last week, Nina Davuluri became the first Indian-American Miss America.
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