TV shows, Reality shows or even News channels all are known to use popular Bollywood Dance Tracks, Themes to attract people in India and other countries. Now digest this, a Denzel Washington starer has our own Bollywood Dance Track “Chaiyya Chaiyya” as opening and closing track. The Denzel starer “Inside Man” has opening credits with Chaiyya Chaiyya and has Music by A.R.Rahman. The song has nothing to do with the film’s theme, except that it caught Spike Lee’s attention when the musical “Bombay Dreams” with A R Rahman’s music was on Broadway over a year ago. Chaiyya Chaiyya was one of its highlights. The song sequence also received applause in the London version where, unlike on Broadway, the show was a big hit.
Although *Bollywood songs * are occasionally featured in Western films including Moulin Rouge where the whole Dance Sequence was filmed on Bollywood and opened channels for Bollywood Dance gaining mileage over the years. This is perhaps the first time a *Bollywood song * is heard over six minutes in a Hollywood film. While that film grossed about $140 million worldwide, “Inside Man” could end its run with more than $160 million.
Now that Indian songs are successively tailored in Hollywood movies, how one can stay away from bollywood dances? Nakul Dev Mahajan is running the most acclaimed bollywood dance school in California “NDM dance studio” and is now on a quest to bring Hollywood a taste of Bollywood…but the right way. His Hollywood work can now be seen on the NBC Soap Opera “Passions,” several upcoming television commercials and from several celebrities who are learning the art of Bollywood Dance for future roles.
Nakul has also been featured on ABC Nightline; quoted on Good Morning America in an interview with Aishwarya Rai; FOX’s Good Day LA and interviewed several times by The Los Angeles Times and Time Magazine. In 2004, Nakul choreographed a dance for a NBC pilot directed by “Friends” star David Shwimmer and currently instructed dance to actor Chris Kattan of “Saturday Night Live” fame for a television pilot with a Bollywood theme, which he and his troupe will appear in. so don’t get surprise when you see any Indian style bollywood dance in Hollywood movies…..because bollywood is rocking.
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