Boogie Woogie India

Friday night episode started with Ravi and Naved in the studio discussing with the Boo choreographers about the new challenge that they like to give to the mummy’s. Very soon mummy’s enters the studio and Ravi and Naved allotted challenges to the mummy’s and that was performing on their least comfort type of dance – something that they never did before or are not comfortable doing it.

I believe, a champion is one who can perform well on any given task and as they say the real performer shows his or her skills only during the challenges that are given to him or her but unfortunately we ended up with lukewarm episode on both Friday and Saturday night because of the mummy’s. Dancing outside ones comfort areas is not the first we had seen on Boogie Woogie and so we had expectations set that of previous performers such as in Kids Championships and also in Naache Taare Zameen Par. Now we also knew that mummy’s cannot be as flexible as the kids but we never thought they would only end up in bad attempt. Yes – the show by the mummy’s was just mediocre. Boo dancers added lot of strength to the episodes and Mummy’s must thank them for their contribution that made their performance look better.

The first mummy to perform was Saba Bari who got “Mujra” as her challenge and she danced on song “Nigahen milane ko jee chahta hai”. A beautiful song indeed and one of my favorite song. Saba was dressed up in a yellow color anarkali costume with some heavy jewelry. In pre performance talk, Boo choreographers told that they wanted to give this challenge to Saba to make her work on her expressions and so they came up with the Mujra theme. Though Saba was complimented by the judges for her expressions but looking at her expression and smile, it looked a little forced. I liked her expressions in her previous performances and this performance looked a little overworked and obvious. While Saba tried and succeeded in impressing the judges with her performance, all I could think of was Swasti Nitya dancing on the same song, it was so fabulous to see the five year old dance but unfortunately Saba failed to put the same magic in her challenge!

The second mummy to perform was Neelu Rai who got “Marshal Arts” as her theme. I wasn’t aware that Marshal Arts was a dancing theme?? but giving Boogie Woogie benefit of doubt let’s thank them for this information?? Now coming to Neelu Rai, she was in green color chinese outfit and made a fabulous entry on the stage. The Boo dancers in black costumes added flavor to the performance and so did the Boo dancers wearing yellow outfits. Neelu’s performance was one of the few performances by mummy’s that makes the episode worth watching. A very good attempt and her hard work was showing in her performance. Some of the steps that deserve applauds are: one – Neelu climbing on Boo dancers thighs, two – dancing with the sword, and of course the fighting scene. Neelu’s performance was so good that it makes you feel like the performance was short. Neelu got good compliments from the judges especially from Jaaved.

The next mother was Ripanpreet and she got Props as her theme. She was suppose to dance with props and so my expectations were to see a performance full of props but what we saw was plain 10 seconds dancing with props. That’s all!! Ripan was dressed up in blue outfit. She had props tied to her in the beginning of the song. I wish, if she had danced on the entire song with props, it would have made a great impact but unfortunately she gave up on props and started dancing her usual after the first 10 seconds. In plain and simple language, it was DISAPPOINTING!

The last mother to perform on Friday night was Harpreet Kaur who got “Belly dancing” as her theme. Now this item you can call a good attempt and as well as entertaining. I loved the music that they used for Harpreets performance and the entry of Boo dancers in the beginning was cool. Harpreet was dressed up in golden color outfit and threw in an entertaining performance. Her moves were graceful and rhythmic. The one thing that was worth applaud was the move on the carpet, and Harpreets thoomkas and the lift in the end should not be missed. Harpreet looked very pretty just like million dollars! This simple and sweet speaking mother has been surprising week after week and this challenge round she sure shows her best. Must watch!

With judges informing that very soon there will be a PJ contest between Ravi, Naved versus three mummy’s – Harpreet, Sonia and Geeta, Friday night episode ended with the promise to bring four more mothers on Saturday night. It sure will be interesting to watch the PJ contest and I think Sonia will walk away with the challenge just like a little piece of cake with the icing Who wants to bet?