Comments on: Set your DVRs – ABDC Goes Bollywood

By: sonam_mcrgurl

sonam_mcrgurl — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:47:57 +0000

RYTHM CITY absolutely killed it (in a good way)!!! I loved how they took their shoes off to do Bharatnatyam. AFROBORIKE did great and so did WE ARE HEROES…but the song “Arab Money” really….? They made it work anyway as they always do.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:55:09 +0000

Lordy that was terrible. I caught the second half of the show and turned it off before they announced who had been eliminated. I don't know why they bothered with having a theme, none of the groups I saw made any effort whatsoever to incorporate their assigned dance, they all just basically did whatever they wanted. The kathak performance had, at most, four beats of what might be described as kathak-inspired dance. The garba was so bad it made my hair hurt. I've only been studying Indian folk dance for a year-ish, but I'm confident I could have done a better job than some of them did. This was basically MTV trying to cash in on something popular, but then again its MTV so I would hardly expect different.

The Australian version of So You Think You Can Dance tackled the Indian dance theme much better-better music, more insistence on actually doing the dance they were assigned.

Also, I got really sick of Mario Lopez announcing each song as a "Bollywood classic." I'm sorry, but Sean Paul is not a "Bollywood classic." End of story.

Epic fail.

By: shimarella

shimarella — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:58:36 +0000

This was better than I thought. Rhythm City and Afro Borike had the numbers that most looked like they could have come right out of a Bollywood movie, and We Are Heroes managed to make it work. Everything else was rather boring. I wish they had shown more clips from Bollywood movies ( rather than just Slumdog) and explained how all the styles chosen had any connection to Bollywood. But it looks like they made an earnest attempt at cross cultural exchange… could have been worse!

By: Ravi the Lurker

Ravi the Lurker — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:22:48 +0000

Alas, no snark!

By: A N N A

A N N A — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:23:02 +0000

How many of you will be watching this tomorrow night? Would I have company if I live-snarked it?

By: shimarella

shimarella — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:49:42 +0000

It does sound like an India Society evening!

Actually I think this will be a trainwreck. Yes these folk styles contribute to Bollywood dancing but they are very different! I just don't know what the producers were thinking. This all seems well-meant and utterly wrong-headed. And of course none of the songs are even Bollywood songs except maybe Jai Ho.

Also, I am tired of Nakul and his hyper-speed folk dance style. I guess that's why he's assisting this week. Just don't be surprised if almost all the crews fall down on their tasks; although I wouldn't blame them one bit.

By: John

John — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:37:07 +0000

Is it just me or does the choreographer look like David Blaine?

By: Lalita

Lalita — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:07:57 +0000

Yes! Bring on the “Dances of India: Classical and Folk Challenge!”

It sounds like the theme of an India Association Diwali program.

By: Lea

Lea — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:46:46 +0000

Oh, great! More people looking ridiculous in Aladdin and Jasmine costumes being choreographed by a man who seems to know nothing about dance. I ask this as a Bollywood watcher, how did the entirety of Indian art and music come to be dumped under the banner of Bollywood?

By: ShallowThinker

ShallowThinker — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 18:42:18 +0000

They are going to dance to "Arab Money" by Busta?

I really wish they didnt do that. A nation of over a billion people shouldnt have to be lumped into the middle east because ignorant Americans want it that way.

And that is just a really bad, ignorant song.