Boogie Woogie India

Saturday was the last episode of elimination rounds. From next week onwards the main rounds with the selected mummy’s will begin and so after seeing six mothers perform on Friday night, it was turn of another six mothers to perform on Saturday before the results were declared.

After couple of jokes from the judges, the first mother was announced and it was time for Malti Verma to perform. Malti Verma was dressed as a sardar and grooved on medleys. She started with bachna aye hasino to jee karda to punjabi number. Malti threw in a entertaining performance. The after performance talk was short but interesting to know that her husband who came in to support her works with comics. I don’t know if Boogie Woogie slacked or was the fault from my end but I did not see Malti’s name, age or location on TV screen and hence pardon me as I am not aware from where Malti came but if anyone else knows her location and age, please do update us.

The second mummy to perform was a 37 year old Mini Srivastava who performed on Dil ye bechain ve song from movie Taal. It sure was refreshing to see a number that is not often played on Boogie Woogie like some of the other songs who are loosing their charm due to repeated use and so the taal performance became lot more enjoyable as well. Mini wore a pretty purple and black costume. Her expressions, hand movements were awesome. The rotations that she did were neat and complimented her dance well. The after performance talk was funny and it was fabulous to learn that she performed in front of many presidents and also in front of Rajiv Gandhi who was then the prime minister. She was fortunate to get a chance to perform in many government cultural programs. Mini also completed a course in Kathak. She had an arranged marriage and said her only criteria for marriage was to get into a family who would support her music. She also sang a song fabulously. Mini also showed interest to search for girls for both Ravi and Naved in Lucknow.

The next mummy to perform was Mamta Praveen who is 44 years old and also came from Lucknow. Mamta wore a pretty red ghagra and performed Kathak superbly. I have observed, there are performances which get weighed just because of their songs and then there are performances that put weight to the music because the artist danced fabulously. Mamta’s dance belongs to the second category. If we have to compare all mothers who performed so far then I would definitely say the best kathak up to date was performed by Mamta. She was absolutely graceful and one could enjoy music because of the elegance that she put in her dance and portrayed it so beautifully. She also carried her smile all the way. I thoroughly enjoyed her dance from her very first second till her last second! Mamta’s after performance talk was funny especially the dialogue delivery between Javed and her regarding spectacles and eye number. Her answer on her obesity saying that “mujhe ghamand nahi hai” and “husband ko ghumaya” was fabulous.

The fourth mummy to perform was 37 year old Shilpa Joshi who came in from Mumbai and danced to Himmesh’s Mehbooba mehbooba song from Ram Gopal Verma’s blockbuster film “Ram Gopal Verma ke Sholay”. Honestly, do we have a single member here who saw that lousy movie? If yes, I would love to know your review. Anyway back to Shilpa, she performs beautifully and does a big favor to both Ram Gopal Verma and Himmesh by dancing on this song. If anyone asks me what ONE thing I would remember related to RGV’s Sholay’s, I sure will be saying Shilpa’s dance. That is THE only good thing that I will remmeber! Shilpa was pretty fast in her dance steps and her expressions were good. Shilpa’s performance should get her a title of “cool mother” in all younger generation as she fits to their criteria and if there was voting, she sure would grab all their votes. I also thinks she resembles in Bipasha Basu. Her after performance talk informed us that she had appeared last year but was out from eliminations and this should be taken positively by rest of the mothers of this site as there is hope for them too and so they must continue practicing and polishing their talent. Shilpa got compliments from Ravi and Javed.

The next mummy to perform was Mamta Srivastava who came in from Delhi and she danced superbly on song “Prem jaal mein phas gayi” – a Govinda’s hit number. Mamta as judges pointed out wasn’t scared or feared to dance on Boogie Woogie stage and threw in an energetic performance. She danced freely and just like nobody is watching. The way she changed her steps with the change in music was fabulous and her bending backwards should definitely get her lots of credits. She makes a place for herself among the most flexible mothers. Mamta got standing ovation from Javed and also from Ravi and Naved. Judges were extremely happy with her performance. It was interesting to know that Mamta is a teacher, and also choreographs, she is also into singing, dancing, cooking, acting and many other hobbies. She proves to be a perfect super mom.

The last mother to perform was Chitralekha Chaturvedi who came in from Indoor. Chitralekha is 38 years old and wore a beautiful red lehanga and danced on yesteryears golden number. She threw in a beautiful and sweet performance. I really wished her performance could be a little longer and felt it ended too quickly. Her after performance talk was funny when she asked the judges not to call her behan “sister” and also when judges asked her if she went on honeymoon she thought for a while and answered yes. Chitralekha teaches kathak and has been in the profession for past 15 years. She is an ex boogie woogien. She paid respects and gave credit to her mother and her eyes were moist while talking about her.

Okay so now was the time to know who the lucky mummy’s would be who would join the rest of the selected mummy’s in next round. Javed announced that this week they selected 7 mothers and the ones that got selected were:

1) Jamna Dathia
2) Deepa Singh
3) Raman Gujral
4) Shilpa Joshi
5) Mamta Srivastava
6) Mini Srivastava
7) Mamta Praveen

We wish all the mothers VERY BEST and looking forward to dhamaka after dhamaka from coming week onwards!! Good Job Boogie Woogie – Keep it Up!!