Choreographers and the styles

We live in a world where media is our father source or say the main source. We depend on media for every pin to pen and mainly for entertainment.

Bollywood has provided a very important and big platform to dance. All the dances that people know is mainly because of bollywood.so it is a platform that has promoted different styles and dances to the masses.

For western dances to overshadow Indian dances, bollywood is responsible to a large extend and also the choreographers who bought such styles. So today this post will be about the bollywood choreographers and the western forms that some of them brought.

Talking about 1980’s, well that era was totally about Indian dances. We could see pure Indian folk dancing or the classical dances .Eminent choreographer saroj khan, the mother of bollywood gave us the sight of our roots. The beautiful folk dance and a mix of classical dances were beautifully shown by saroj khan through the feet of Sri Devi and madhuri dixit.

Slowly we had emerging choreographers who covered the light of Indian dancing with the western shadows.Shiamak Davar an Indian choreographer who is considered to be the first Indian to bring Contemporary Jazz and western forms of dances. Shiamak Davar began his choreography for Hindi cinema with the film 'Dil To Pagal Hai’ Having changed the way dance was perceived in Indian films, and the change settled permanently with less traces of Indian dancing.Today,saroj khan dancing is hardly found and I feel sad for the change. It’s good that western dances were bought to Hindi cinema but the roots were destroyed completely and the Indian dancing sadly is becoming history.

Supporting the western dances we have more prominent Indian dancers like Terence Lewis .An Indian dancer and choreographer, specializing in contemporary dance. His first choreography in a Hindi movie was a ballroom waltz, titled "Waltz for a Romance”. And so contemporary dance has also become a large part of bollywood today.

We also have amazing choreographer like prabhu deva who bought his own Indian style to the dances. A bharatnatyam dancer who bought in Indian dancing and traces of roots to bollywood.

As mentioned in my previous blogs, adapting westernization is a great thing but lethal of our roots is the saddest part. Today I would still love to see Prabhu Deva and Remo D Souza dancing and choreograph tapori forms. The dinchak sound is missed by my ears and so I know by many Indians like me.

Undoubtedly we have amazing choreographers in our bollywood industry but it would have been more pleasure to watch if I could see them bringing up some of Indian dancing to our movies.

This post provides no offense to anyone and I render apologies if it is to hurt sentiments of any person.