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Last weekend a questioned was asked in humor by Jaaved Jaafferi and we thought there is nothing better then to use the same as public poll this week. Let’s see what our members, visitors would like to answer to Jaaved Jaafferi’s question

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The three mothers that stood out in their performances for the week of September 5th, 2009 as rising Stars are:

    Sonia Dias/ Savio Barnes

    Neelu Rai/ Deepak Singh

    Saba Bari/ Nishant Bhatt

The hottest mother to look the best in her given theme and who carried her personality very well is none other then…….

    Sonia Dias

Saturday night was the much awaited night as the best mummy’s were yet to perform and they were accompanied by none other then the jhalak choreographers. But this was not all, two more exciting competitions were lined up for the same day such as “cooking competition” and as well as PJ competition. A fun and thrilled day indeed!

The first mom to start the Saturday night episode was Saili Desai who came in with Lilian Mendes. They both rocked together on song “Karle baby dance wance” from movie Hello. Lilian was dressed up as a sardar and Saili wore a black top with jeans along with a silver belt. Saili looked very pretty and completely a different person. The confidence level was amazing. It looks like Saili was saving her best for the last and all of a sudden she comes attacking in full swing. A very well deserving contender. This sweet lady along with Lilian danced faster steps and was very energetic. They were stylish and hap. The closure was again very well performed with Lilian lifting Saili. The after performance talk brought good complements from the judges and Javed said Saili looked like an actress from the 60’s or 70’s. Saili then requested the 3 judges and in return to her request judges were kind enough to wish Darshana Kohli and spoke good words for her.

The next that happened was the cooking competition where both the judges – Ravi and Naved visited the mummy’s to taste their cooked food and to judge which mummy cooked the best. They were served in typical Indian style and they sure had lots of fun. Clippings of audience opinion was also shown where people talked who they think will win the competitions.

The next to perform was Ritu Gupta who came in with my favorite Jhalak Choreographer Javed Sanadi. Who isn’t aware of Javed’s magic? He dances like there is no tomorrow and like nobody is watching. He was very innovative, fine and danced like he had no bones. Javed is extremely talented and when he is on the floor, you are automatically glued to your seat and that too on tip of your toes. Both Ritu and Javed danced on song “milke saare aish kare”. The flips they performed were good and as well as the rotations. It was a perfect entertaining number. The after performance talk brought comments from Javed when he said they were fantastic and also talked about the changed look. There were couple of funny moments especially when Ritu’s husband tried to lift Ritu in similar fashion the way Javed had lifted her. There was also a look alike of Javed Sanadi and he was none other then the Boo music master blaster who often makes funny sounds after judges comments. They both really looked like twin brothers! Javed also spoke high of Boogie Woogie and expressed how he wished to perform on Boogie Woogie stage since he was 14 year old and was happy to finally fulfill his desire. We sure do hope to see Javed Sanadi more and more often on Boogie Woogie!

At this point results were shown from cooking competitions and the first prize went to Ripanpreet for her chole puri, and second prize went to Saili Desai who had cooked a dish using coconut and third prize to Geeta Soni for her kachoris. All three mothers thanked Boogie Woogie and expressed their gratitude for creating such wonderful memories for them.

The last but definitely not the least mother to perform was Sonia Dias who got Savio Barnes as her star choreographer. Lets not play games and cut the chase – Sonia and Savio’s performance was THE BEST and is MUST WATCH FROM EVERY ANGLE!! This performance should definitely be counted as Mummy’s championship BEST and it is my FAVORITE for sure! Sonia has been showing an upper graph since her day one and one would find it difficult to pick one of Sonia’s performance that they didn’t like. Watch her perform with Savio and you can’t help but call her a sure shot winner! The performance started with Sonia on Savio’s back dressed up in jungle attire with Tiki Totem poles in the background. The forest look was not the only one to look wild but so was the performance itself – it was wildly beautiful! The stage itself looked beautiful and the performance was voila!! This performance cannot be placed with none of the mummy’s performance as the standard itself was way to high even to be compared. Watching Sonia and Savio, other mummy’s should get geared up seriously and must realize that Sonia is their toughest competitor. What happens in future episodes we don’t know but if this was finals then nothing would have stopped Sonia from walking away with the prestigious trophy. Sonia and Savio danced on song “aja gufaayo mein”. The lifts, feel and the look was amazing. It was one paisa wasool performance. Another point to be noted was Sonia was fabulous in her splits and maintained steadiness in all her movements. She from no angle looked like a mother performing but a professional dancer who was dancing with Savio. Savio sure must have been proud of Sonia! I was mesmerized by this performance and couldn’t take my eyes off. Go and watch the rerun or get the videos online – it is one performance that SHOULD NOT BE MISSED AT ANY COST! Sonia and Savio got great complements from the judges especially from Javed as he said the performance was fantastic and was refreshing.

Sonia’s performance was followed by PJ war between the judges and the mummy’s – Sonia, Harpreet and Saba. The fight was tight and both earned equal points from the judge Jaaved Jaaffery resulting the competition in a tie. One thing that shouldn’t be missed is Naved’s dance especially when he answers the joke right

Coming to painful eliminations, it was heart wrenching to see one of this blogs favorite dancer “Harpreet Kaur” get eliminated. She won our hearts with her innocence, sweetness and amazing personality. We are sure going to miss her a lot and hope to see her back on Boogie Woogie real soon. We wish her the very best of best in all her future endeavors! You are awesome Harpreet!!

Before I begin writing about any mummy’s, I will tell you, it was one fabulous week at Boogie Woogie that came in for the first time in Mummy’s Championships. Mummy’s were at their best and from no angle last weeks episode should have been missed by anyone and if somebody missed then make sure to catch the rerun or grab the video online – it was MUST WATCH!!

Friday night episode started with the judges informing that Mummy’s Championship finals will be scheduled in two weeks from now. That means there would be all together 2 eliminations and remaining 5 mummy’s would enter finals to fight for the prestigious trophy.

The week brought choreographers of “Jhalak Dikhla ja” to the studios and with the name itself it sounded promising. The show began with four mothers dancing with star choreographers as an intro on the song “Aa dekhe zara” and it was beautiful – it was very well put together and looked GRAND!

The first mother to start the performance was the sweet honey speaker Harpreet Kaur who got Himanshu as her dancing choreographer. As soon as the name Himanshu was announced, one could refresh all the awesome performances that he had put together along with Gauhar Khan and so one could expect nothing but an exciting item. Harpreet started her performance in mechanic attire trying to fix a vehicle wearing a orange pullover and very soon she changed her outfit and came out all smiling in pink top with white pants. Himanshu was dressed in orange color pullover. They both danced on the popular song “Aye bachu tu sunle”. If you are searching for the MP3 then please visit our MP3 category and you will find the song ready to download. Back to Harpreet – dancing with Himanshu one could see a much confident and almost professional Harpreet. She did not look a mummy from any angle. Wonderful job on her makeover and one must applaud the make up man of Boogie Woogie as the mummy’s looked refreshing. The best thing about Harpreet and Himanshu’s performance were the lifts and the closure was stylish. One could see Harpreet’s little daughter enjoying watching her mother’s performance as she was found dancing on her grandmothers lap clapping her hands. Coming to the judges – they were as usual their best (humble, sincere and informative). Jaaved caught the technicalities and informed Harpreet about the mismatched step. Harpreet spoke words of praise for the judges and also for the show – Boogie Woogie. She expressed her gratitude in obtaining the wonderful opportunity and platform that Boogie Woogie offered her and said "Boogie Woogie is dancers university”. It was great to know that finely talented choreographer Himanshu is an ex Boogie Woogien. Himanshu participated in Boogie Woogie about 8-10 years ago. Awesome!!

The second mother to perform was Ripanpreet who got Maricha Fernandes as her dancing partner. Now Maricha had already won our heart when she became a dancing partner to lovable and lively Ram Kapoor (Mr. Walia). Ripanpreet was dressed in the beginning in blue Tshirt with white pant and the shirt was one for both Ripanpreet and Maricha later she changed to green and red color top. Maricha was dressed as a male. Both of them danced on song “Ahun Ahun” from movie Love Aaj Kal. Their performance was energetic as they used faster entertaining steps. Scarf’s that were used by them added extra charm. Ripanpreet looked like a new person something that we saw in her first episode. The after performance talk got Ripanpreet many compliments especially from Jaaved who said it was very well put together and also complimented on her new look. The same Ripanpreet who hated to speak English language spoke few sentences in English in style. Good improvement indeed. Later one could make out that her town is really over confident on her winning especially when she said all her town people are sure that she will win. She also spoke about how she was told to be careful as Mumbians are pretty smart and might color an old car to give away as her prize. Call this innocence or over confidence but it was little annoying.

The next mother to perform was Neelu Rai who got Deepak Singh as her dancing star choreographer. Now who isn’t aware of Deepak? He created waves in almost all of Jhalak Dikhla ja and so a very strong and beautiful performance was expected. Deepak choose Salsa and threw in an extremely beautiful item along with Neelu Rai. MUST WATCH is the golden two words! Both of them were in black color outfits and danced on song “zara zara touch me”. The performance in true words was sensuous and graceful. The lifts were beautiful and every step they took was spellbound. After watching Neelu and Deepak, one couldn’t help but use Himmesh’s patent words - “Superb, Fantastic, Mindblowing and Out of the World!” Neelu looked like million bucks. The after performance talk got great compliments from the judges. Jaaved liked the performance and said it was used very well. Ravi said Neelu looked very confident. Naved looked happy with the performance and had a great smile on his face.

The last mother to perform on Friday night was Saba Bari who got jhalak cheographer – Nishant Bhatt as her dancing partner. Now Saba’s and Nishant’s performance is another one that shouldn’t be missed at any cost. It was total paisa wasool. They both threw in a very entertaining number and danced in a south Indian getup. Saba was dressed in white saree with red blouse and Nishant in yellow shirt with white dhoti. The song they choose to dance on was “chhori hai tu yaa”. Both Saba and Nishant’s performance makes you glue to your seats and watch without blinking eyes with the biggest grin on your face. The expressions that both the dancers used were hilarious and superb. Nishant’s moustache were another noticing aspect of the performance. The jumps in the dance were amazing. Nishant and Saba’s performance was one such that can make a person realize that the weekend is here and it is time for some fun hungama. It surely makes you forget the tiny miny problems of life and get absorbed. Must WATCH!! The after performance talk again got great compliments from the judges as Ravi said “dance mein wazan tha”. Jaaved spoke about the expressions and said they were great and also the performance was very well put together but he did point out that when Saba walked down the steps, she missed the beat. Boogie Woogie’s thaaliya person Mr. Vicky was brought on the stage and everyone clapped for him.

With this above performance, Friday night’s episode ended with the promise to bring 3 more mothers to compete not only in dance but also in PJ contest and food contest.

Saturday update coming soon.

Saturday night rubbed the reality show “mujhe iss jungle se bachao” on Boogie Woogie and so the pre performance was started in similar fashion. After a lukewarm Friday, honestly I was waiting for some magic for Saturday night and was hoping that it does not turn as bad as Friday. Though it wasn’t as bad as Friday but it still comes under the mediocre attempt by mummy’s in the challenge set by judges. So is marriage to be blamed? Does being a mother, one can only be an average performer in challenges or were the mummy’s served the wrong food that they couldn’t be their best? Well, I personally feel the awesome performances by the kids prior to mummy’s set our expectations so high that “we” the audiences want to see only the same standard and anything less makes us upset.

But coming back to the Saturday night, the first mother who makes an bold entry to perform in the challenge round was Sonia Dias and she was given semi classical dance as her theme. Now we were so used to seeing Sonia do hip hop or some western that it was almost impossible to imagine in classical attire performing some Indian steps. But Sonia surprises us all by dancing on song “chupke se”. She wore a blue top with white lehanga. Sonia’s performance to the audience should look graceful and soothing. The hip hop dancer did a very good attempt by dancing fabulously and I loved all her steps, expressions and smile during her performance. Must watch! Sonia got great comments from Ravi and she also desired to perform on an item number in her future rounds. The after performance talk brought some touchy and memorable moments between Sonia and her daughter when she had a day out with her.

The second mother to perform was Saili Desai who got Salsa as her theme. Now with Saili, it was opposite to what it was with Sonia. She all the time danced Indian and one never saw her shake on a western number. This was the first time Saili performs a Salsa and I must say it was a good attempt. She wore a pink color costume and danced on song “kuch khaas hai”. Some of the steps that were worth mentioning were Boo dancers lifting Saili, that came out good especially the positioning of her legs and hands. Saili dancing around the chair and the steps that she took along with Boo dancers with the faster music were all good attempt. Saili carried herself very well and her smile and expressions were great. Though I felt there was a lot of walking in her dance but giving the benefit of doubt that she was performing for the first time, it will be called a great attempt. Saili got good compliments from the judges especially from Naved when he said that Saili turned out to be a chupi rustum and shouldn’t be under estimated.

The next mother to dance was Geeta Soni who got Rock n Roll as her dancing theme. Geeta the pretty mother danced on song “tumse mili nazar”. She wore a pretty pink color frock with silver tights and as usual she looked amazingly beautiful. Geeta’s steps were faster and it was a very good rock n roll attempt. Boo dancers added their own charm to the performance but Geeta was her best in her challenge. They also used props in her performance and it came out very well. I don’t know the technicalities and lets just leave that to the judges but from audience point of view, one must enjoy this performance as it came out as a good entertaining number. Well done Geeta!! The only problem that I found in Geeta is that she was never a good speaker. Like some of the mothers who speak non stop in their after performance talk and sometimes unnecessarily, Geeta when she needs to speak, she likes to pass the opportunity and move from the stage like instance when the judges asked her to say a joke, she asked them if she can go. I think Geeta must polish her people’s skills and once she does that, there shouldn’t be any stopping for her. I personally loved her performance and salute this mother who got a 16 year old daughter for her skills and also for her flexibility. Salute to her determination to do something for herself apart from being a mother! Awesome job Geeta!!

After Geeta’s performance, judges – Ravi, Javed and Naved celebrated Michael Jackson’s birthday on Boogie Woogie stage. They cut a cake and also danced to the song “Thriller”. Some of the mummy’s that got a chance to dance with the judges were Sonia and Ritu with Jaaved Jaafferi, Ravi danced with Ritu Gupta and one could also see Sumit and Vinod dance to celebrate Michael Jackson’s birthday. Jaaved Jaafferi also announced that soon after the Mummy’s Championship they will be coming up with Michael Jackson special where they will pay a tribute to MJ and it will be a two week special. Can’t wait!!

The last mother to perform was definitely not the least mother as she performed fabulously. Yes it was Ritu Gupta’s turn and she got Hip Hop as her theme. Ritu danced to the song “Masakali” remixed with “Gangster Blues”. She wore black top, white and black bottom with red color scarf along with a head band – a perfect hip hop attire. The best thing about Ritu’s dancing is anytime there are Boo dancers on the stage, it looks like they are there to support the participant but when Ritu dances with the boo dancers, it looks like she is part of the team and everyone together is performing. She plays a strong teammate giving her hundred percent to the performance and so this time too she succeeded not only with great matching steps but also great expressions and dancing movements and attitude. Her closure was fabulous too. Must Watch! Ritu also got great compliments from the judges especially from Ravi. Keep it up Ritu!

Unfortunately the one mummy to get eliminated this week was Geeta Soni. As we said, Geeta was a beautiful part of Mummy’s Championships and with her getting eliminated, we are going to miss her a lot. There surely is going to be a vacuum but we wish her the very best of best for all her future endeavors and we do hope to see her back on Boogie Woogie stage soon. Geeta, we are proud of you! Mothers like you always are very inspiring. We pray for the best for you and your family. God bless you!!

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?