After the entire hullabaloo about Preity Zinta performing an item number in Main Aur Mrs Khanna, I thought it would be worth a dekko. But after watching the video I realized how wrong I was. See for yourself:
There are so many reasons why the video is so pathetic. For starters, the song itself is bad. Preity in her heydays looked pretty, no doubt about that. But face it girl, you’re old now! And definitely too old to be dancing in an item number.
Did the Director think he could recreate the magic of “Kajra re”? Evidently that was the idea…Preity’s outfit and jewellery are very reminiscent of the superhit number featuring Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan. What I don’t understand is why did he try to pull it off? Couldn’t the choreographer come up with a fresh concept huh?
But did you notice the dance off between Kareena Kapoor and Preity? The former looked stunning in that sexy sari, didn’t she? Kareena should have taken Preity’s place… alas, what’s done is done!
Every Bollywood except the ‘artsy’ type has a dance sequence. And then there are those movies which are based on dance. Like Aaja Nachle and Dil To Pagal Hai, both of which star the dancing queen Madhuri Dixit.
In Dil To Pagal, Shah Rukh Khan and Karishma Kapoor are part of a dance troupe and best friends with Karishma in love with him. Then she hurts herself and the search for a dancer begins and that’s when Madhuri Dixit steps in and love blossoms between her and SRK. The dance moves are choreographed by Shiamak Davar and won many awards.
His reputation grew multi fold. Here we have an actor who is more than just another pretty face. He can act and dance around trees too. The directors and the lot were more than delighted as they made sure he had something to dance to in every movie that followed.
Ek Pal Ka Jeena from Kaho Naa Pyar Hai had co-star Ameesha Patel speechless.
Dancers and dance teachers in Bollywood 